Flowers Wedding

I have put together my top tips to ensure that you pick the flowers in the right season for the perfect wedding.

Spring flowers
Bulb flowers such as Narcissus hybrids, daffodils, tulips and hyacinth are in season.

Summer Flowers

Summer is a time of abundance for flowers, with all colours and shapes available. Similarly cottage-garden in appearance are sweet pea and sun flowers. More exotic summer flowers include foxtail lily and the bright sky-blues of agapanthus and hydrangea.

Autumn Flower

Autumn brings the rich colours of dahlia, gladiolus, late sunflowers, and red hot poker.

Winter Flowers

Winter is not a barren, bleak time for flowers - as well as flowers available all year round (see below) there are early bulb flowers like hyacinth, tulip, narcissus, and hellebore; southern hemisphere exotics such as protea, kangaroo paw and euphorbia fulgens and not forgetting poinsettia; as well as foliages including hollyberry add much-needed colour.

All year round Flowers

Many flowers and foliages are now available all year round. Typical all year round flowers include carnation, gerbera, iris, lily and rose with orchids and birds of paradise being a little more tropical.

What flowers will I need?

You will need your flowers which will be bouquets for the bride and bridesmaids, button holes for the groom, father of the bride and groom, best man, and flowers for the mother of the bride and groom.

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Wedding Reception

Every bride dreams of having a special wedding celebration, it’s the definition of special that may vary from bride to bride. The big challenge for me was; what was my personal wedding style? I had little other wedding planning ideas past these, but these I was sure of.

1. Tear Sheets

Congrats! Now run immediately to your favorite newsstand and buy every bridal magazine! WAIT! I suggest buying two bridal mags to get a read on what the trends are in the wedding industry. Are brides going for traditional gowns? Scour the two magazines you choose for whatever peeks your interest and then tear, tear, tear! Tear out the pictures and advice that speak to you and along with the pages that you favored from the bridal mags and lifestyle publications begin a wedding production binder.

2. Book your locations

While you are mulling the images and ideas over and over in your mind, begin making appointments with ceremony and reception locations. Is the décor shabby-chic just like your favorite catalogue?

3. Invitations & Dress

Not many wedding planners would likely group together two such major event aspects like stationary and wardrobe, but for style purposes – they work well together. Keep in mind that both areas will complement the style of your wedding but are typically considered separate areas of the event. For one, the invitation and dress set the tone of the event. By choosing the best wedding stationary and wedding gown, you can bring together all of the aspects of your wedding style that you have selected. If your décor is a sleek and modern white wedding staged outside under a tent of glowing Chinese lanterns, your perfect invitation, menu and escort card could be printed on delicate rice paper featuring the Chinese ideogram for love. Pulling off your wedding style is as simple as minding your details and keeping in mind that every decision is an opportunity to make a statement.

4. Food, Drink, Tunes & Favors

The final details to incorporate into your fabulous event are the guest’s favorite! Your dress is a simple silk bias cut sheath, with a gorgeous cowl neck accented with a designer flat thong. As your loved ones depart they can take with them his and hers flip flops in the colors of your wedding, wrapped in a beach towel monogrammed with your wedding date and a message of thanks! Sure, the websites and magazine might suggest favors for a wedding being hosted at a country club, but those favors wouldn’t incorporate the feel of your event. Shells and candles are easily obtainable at craft stores such as Michaels. Another cute centerpiece idea for a beach wedding is a aluminum sand pail with shovels filled to the brim with garden roses according to your colors. I hope my approach to wedding planning has given you a decent jumping off point. There are a few more areas to tackle, like wedding party plans and transportation.

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Asian Wedding

A Japanese pearl theme might well be your perfect Asian wedding venue and can be accomplished fairly easily. To enhance the atmosphere of your Asian wedding, drape centerpiece vases in strands of costume pearls (or real if you have access to royal coffers) and stuff with white ostrich feathers. Fill the room with iridescent balloons in ivory, pearl gray and pale pink and select pearl hair-combs and necklaces for the bride and bridesmaids and a pearl tiara for the bride. An Asian Pacific theme has nothing at all to do with time zones and provides another beautiful vehicle for an Asian wedding ceremony. Hot-glue faux pearls into large mother-of-pearl oyster shells and scatter them all about the Asian wedding reception room. Asian wedding favors can take many forms. One very popular choice a fortune cookie wedding favors. Other ideas for Asian wedding favors might include: bamboo place card frames, incense sets, gifts of tea, fortune cookie key-rings, jeweled votive candles, almond cookies, lucky bamboo plants, paper or sandalwood fans, sake cups in different materials and shapes and porcelain tea cups with the double happiness symbol.

For bridesmaids at Asian weddings, popular wedding favors can include: gold-tone hair combs, decorative chopsticks (hair adornments) jeweled flip-flop sandals and a feminine shirt with each bridesmaid's name custom-embroidered upon it and tucked into a large-size fortune cookie box.

Flower to Every Season

Springs Best Bet: Cherry Blossoms this flower is a perfect fit for the love in your life. For the Chinese, this flower symbolizes feminine beauty, principle and love. Their rich, pink petals give them unmatched beauty. Runner ups: Daffodils, Lillies, Lilacs and Tulips.

Summers Best Bet: Daisies Forgetting about HAL's creepy singing about a girl named Daisy as he was shut down in A Space Odyssey, these flowers are beautiful, so much so that they rank fifth in the world in terms of cut flowers. Runner ups: Geraniums, Jacobs Ladder, Roses and Sunflowers.

So beautiful is this flower that in ancient Japan, the emperor adopted it as his official seal. Beyond its use as a beautiful gift, these flowers make an excellent tea, can reduce indoor air pollution and its seeds act as an effective insecticide. It is the official flower of Chicago and the official flower for the month of November, which is on the cusp of winter oddly. Runner ups: Asters, Zinnias, Gerbera Daisies and Marigolds

Winters Best Bet: Forget-Me-Not, What other flower could be used for winter than the Forget-Me-Not, the state flower of Alaska, a place known for winter and snow. This flower, luckily for it, does not need sun but rather shade. Runner Ups: Jasmine, Orchids, Poinsettias and Hollies.

Guide to Wedding flower

Flowers are an important part of making your wedding ceremony and reception beautiful. Hopefully this guide will make your choices in wedding flowers a little bit easier.

The Shop

When planning your wedding, you should take time and care in selecting a wedding florist. Choose several florists in the general vicinity of your ceremony and reception site. If the wedding florist is on the other side of town, they may charge more for delivery. Bring tear outs from magazines to give the florists an idea of what you types and colors of flowers you are consider. The Flowers

A basic package of wedding flowers should include:

* Bridal bouquet
* Bridemaids' bouquets
* Corsages for mothers, grandmothers and other important women
* Boutonnieres for the groom, groomsmen, fathers, grandfathers and other important men
* Centerpieces for the reception

You may also need a smaller bouquet for the "toss," flowers for the flower girl, and other floral decorations.

Here is a general guideline of wedding flowers by season.

Spring

* Apple blossoms
* Cherry blossoms
* Daffodils
* Hyacinth
* Iris
* Lilies
* Lilacs
* Pansies
* Peonies
* Tulips

Summer

* Cala lilies
* Dahlia
* Daisies
* Geraniums
* Hydrangeas
* Iris
* Larkspur
* Queen Anne's lace
* Roses
* Sunflower
* Zinnias

Fall

* Asters
* Chrysanthemums
* Gerbera daisies
* Marigolds
* Roses
* Sunflowers

Winter

* Camelias
* Forget-me-nots
* Jasmine
* Orchids
* Poinsettias

Now that you are armed with all the information, you can make an informed decision and choose the florist and the flowers that are right for you!

Cherry Blossom Festival

Although no one can predict exactly when, every spring thousands of Tokyo inhabitants will flock to their public parks to enjoy "hanami", the viewing of the cherry blossoms. The most popular of the city's Cherry Blossom Festivals is at Ueno Park. History of the Cherry Blossom Festival.

The Cherry Blossom Festival has its roots in the ninth century, when Japanese nobility had the first formal flower viewing at the Shinsen-en garden in Kyoto. The Japanese listen intently to the reports from the Meteorological Agency as the cherry blossoms begin opening in Okinawa each January. Families, friends, and even groups of workers in every part of Tokyo will head for the blossom-shrouded public spaces, spread out their picnic blankets, and enjoy the return of spring beneath the gently falling blossoms, which symbolize for them the fleetingness of life.

For those who would prefer to enjoy the ephemeral beauty of the blossoms in more contemplative surroundings, the Meguro River Cherry Blossom Festival, only six miles to the west of Tokyo Station, offers an evening stroll beneath the lantern-lit trees at the river's edge.

Where to Stay during a Visit to the Cherry Blossom Festival

Located in Tokyo's central Taitoku district, the four-star Hotel Sunroute Asakusa Tokyo is a modern facility within two kilometres of Ueno Park.