Gimme Gimme More!
More flowers that is! In retrospect I should have planned our wedding around growing season. This way we could have lots of purple flowers like sweet peas and grape hyacinth. Instead I’m left scrambling for summer’s scraps of purple.
It’s okay though, I’m learning to love the flowers I can get and be grateful for them. Not to mention I’m becoming very talented at internet searches. Can I put that on my resume? In case you’re looking for lavender flowers in August here are a few that we’ll probably be using for my bouquet. More than half have been approved by our florist and the other half I’m waiting to hear back about.
That’s Lavender, Lavender Spray Roses, Lavender Hydrangea, Lavender Stock (seeing a pattern here…), Brunia, Lavender Freesia, Lavender Carnations, Lavender Lisianthus, Lavender Roses and Lavender Sweetheart Roses (not pictured).
We’re working to make an August version of this spring bouquet.
Since the bridesmaid dresses are a dark purple I’m checking out different white flowers for contrast. You know what I dig? I like spider mums, and normal mums, and button mums. I’ll just say it - I love mums. I think that this bouquet in a slightly smaller size would be lovely for the girls.
I think that that specific bouquet has dahlias in it, but I don’t think that those are in season in August. In fact, for all the research I’ve been doing growing seasons seem to be floating in and out of my head and I’m not even sure anymore when anything is growing. Except that I know bulb flowers, sweet peas and peonies are all out of the picture. Boo That.
Have your flower choices been easy? Or have you had to hunt them down?
