Issue date: 1/24/07 Section: Weddings

Spring:

The most popular wedding season because it stands for new beginnings, spring is the season for pastels.
Adding some bold variety to your color palette can make this otherwise standard wedding season something to remember.

Flowers to use:
-White lilies
-Yellow, pink, or white roses
-Daises
-Assorted carnations
-Cal lilies
-Cupid's dart
-Columbine
-Tulips

Colors:
Pastels are preferred. Use pink, peach, white, ivory, cream, beige, baby blue, yellow, lavender

Put spring in your step:
Add these flowers to knock some punch into that pale palette:

-Magenta lilies
-Prairie gentian
-Bleeding Heart
-Pansies

Summer:

Summer weddings can be a blast. Use the heat to spice up your wedding designs.

Flowers to use:
-Blue delphiniums
-Tiger lilies
-Yellow daisies
-Spider Mums
I-rises
-Orchids

Colors:
-Jewel tones are favored. Use ruby red, teal, amethyst, gold, emerald green.
-Hot colors like bright orange, pink, red, and yellow are also good choices.

Spice it up
Add these flowers to trump up some tropical flavor:

-Southern hibiscus
-Painted-tongue
-Anthurium
-Bird of Paradise

Autumn:

The cooling weather and gold colors of fall compliment any wedding performed in this season.

Flowers to use:
-Yellow chrysanthemums
-Dogwood
-Alstromerias (Peruvian lilies)
-Ranuculus
-Scarlet sage
-Marigold
-Black-eyed Susan

Colors:
The colors of the changing leaves are the most popular. Use red, orange, yellow, gold, rust, chocolate brown, maroon, plum, copper.



It's harvest time:
Use the harvesting season to decorate your wedding in abundance:

-Dried wheat
-Forsythia
-Sunflowers
-Ginkgo and other autumn foliage
-Honeysuckle vines

Winter

The coolest season of the year also offers some of the coolest ideas.
Remember, if you get married in December, you can claim the entire past year under "married" status on your tax return. Now that's a smart money wedding!

Flowers to use:
-Poinsetta
-Cedar and holly sprigs
-Bells of Ireland
-Christmas rose
-Waxflower
-Ruscus
-Lisianthus

Colors:
Bright colors and holiday favorites are the picks for your winter wonderland wedding. Use blue, red, champagne, emerald green, silver, black, violet, gold.


Brighten up:
Add some fizzle to the dank wintertime with these selections:

-Peonies
-Leptospernum
-Bouvardia
-White lilies
-Mums

Know your colors:

According to The Home Decorating Institute, to prevent flower arrangements and decorations from blending too much, colors should be chosen by how they compare on the color wheel. Colors opposite each other on the color wheel will create the most dramatic contrast.

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