How to Choose The Right Wedding Bouquet

A Bouquet is probably not high on your wedding to-do list, but choosing the wrong wedding bouquet can have a disastrous affect on the way you look. So, make sure you pick the bouquet that will flatter your figure.

If you’re in the early phases of plan­ning your wed­ding, you might not have even con­sid­ered what kind of bou­quet you want. If, on the other hand, you’re in the lat­ter stages of plan­ning your wed­ding, you’ll know that choos­ing a wed­ding bou­quet can be an incred­i­bly dif­fi­cult task.

Wed­ding Bou­quets Are Basic, Aren’t They?

I know, it sounds sim­ple enough, right? After all, select­ing the right wed­ding bou­quet is just a sim­ple mat­ter of find­ing flow­ers that suit your wed­ding gown and bridal party’s color scheme, choos­ing between real or silk, find­ing a match with the style and theme of the wed­ding, and select­ing a bou­quet that will flat­ter your figure.

Yes, believe it or not, the bou­quet can add that extra bit of glam­our and top of your out­fit per­fectly, or it can accen­tu­ate all those fea­tures that you’d rather kept hid­den. So, the bou­quet busi­ness is rather trick­ier than many brides bar­gain for.

What Do You Want — A Wed­ding Bou­quet?

First things first, remem­ber it’s your wed­ding and your opin­ion and tastes have to trump every­body else’s — with the pos­si­ble excep­tion of the groom-to-be, but he’s unlikely to take much of an inter­est where flo­ral décor is concerned.

So, despite the fact that the world and her hus­band may be offer­ing you advice on what color, style, and type of flower should be included in your bou­quet, make sure you don’t let your­self be swayed by their advice. By all means, lis­ten to it (some of it might be good), but you, ulti­mately, have to go with your heart.

How to Find Out What You Want

If you haven’t yet given much thought to bou­quets, you may not have much of a clue as to what you’d like to have in your own. So, a good place to start is by look­ing through mag­a­zines or brows­ing the inter­net for ideas.

You’re almost cer­tain to find sev­eral that catch your eye, so make a note of what it is these bou­quets have in com­mon and keep those things in mind when choos­ing your own bouquet.

How to Flat­ter Your Fig­ure

Yes, I know it seems strange, but the shape and size of the bou­quet really can make a dif­fer­ence to how you look on your big day. So, here’s some great advice for select­ing the right bou­quet to flat­ter your figure.

• Short women — should steer clear of posies because they’ll make you look more com­pact. Instead, you should be look­ing at bou­quets that give the illu­sion of height. Teardrop, sheath, and larger designs will do the job perfectly.
• Tall women — The goal is to make your height seem more even, so a bou­quet that draws the eye down is needed; a medium teardrop or large posy, for example.
• Large women — You’ll find that a large bou­quet helps to make you look slim­mer. Never choose a small bou­quet, because this will exag­ger­ate your width and make you appear larger than you are.