This is an elegant Bridal Bouqet in the Hand Tied Design created with Fresh Red Roses, The Charlotte Variety, and Hypericum Berries, they are such a rich red color and when shined with green glow have an awesome sheen to them. The Seeded Eucalypis adds wonderful rich green color and has the seeded berries that have an elegant draping effect to make the arrangment really flow and look lacy and rich at the same time. I also added accents of Bear Grass looped in to add some flair to the design of this Red Rose Bridal Bouquet and did a braided crisscross design on the hand tied stems with red Satin to finish it off.

Here is a Wedding Cake we decorated with the floral bouquet on Top and the clusters of flowers surrounding the base on the Table, this is done in Purples and Spring Bulb flowers, Hyacinths, Tulips, calla Lily, Statice, Sea Foam Statice, freesia, and touches of Greenery to give a nice base to the design on the table. The lavendar roses were open enough to really give a beautiful elegant gracing of the true rose. The Seafoam Statice gives a softer lacier effect than the traditional statice, it has a more fluffy look to it. See how elegant it can look with only the flowers gracing the top of the wedding cake and surrounding the base.

The Hyacinths and Freesia really give off some incredible sweet Fragrance too!

Here is an Elegant Looking Grooms boutonierre designed of lavender roses, they have such a gorgeous bloom and lavendar Freesia along with accents of wax flower and ivy.

The Freesia has such a sweet smell if you are wanting a fragrant wedding flower Freesia is an excellent choice and they come in lavendar, pink, yellow, purple and white.

Here is another Wedding Cake with arrangements designed of Red Roses and Tree Fern, the bride wanted very simple and classic and clean elegant design on the wedding cake, The Rose is the true Beauty of this design.

Very Classic and Timeless in Design.

Here is a very Simple Red Rose Bridal Bouquet, This was edged with soft Tree Fern to give it a base on the outer edges, Taking away nothing from the Natural beauty of the Red Roses for the Brides Bouquet.

Use a nice Bright full Variety of Red Roses,

Charlottes or Freedoms are a wonderful style of rose that will hold up well and has a wonderful shape.

Here is a cake we did with the Red Roses and simple Greenery around, this will take a big number of roses if you want mostly the red, I recommend getting the roses in early and letting them set out to open and really bloom out so it makes a bigger showing!

This is a very elegant look with the Red Roses on the Wedding Cake decorations.

Choosing flowers for sympathy or loss

One of the hardest things you may go through in life is to lose someone near and dear to you
Whether due to a long full life and sometimes a quick unexpected tragic loss.
No matter what the circumstances have been,
as a florist we have been there and shed many tears along with our customers and friends during the heartbreaking time of loss,
This can be such a stressful and distressing time for families and friends.

One thing to keep in mind is that there is Never a Right or Wrong, you know what you want to do and send and some of the guidelines here I hope will help in your decisions.
If you are ordering a family piece, a casket spray for the casket you may want to use flowers that really permeate the personality of the one you have lost, To some the Roses have great meaning, Carnations are their favorite,

maybe Aunt Betty had a beautiful Pink Rose bush and the Pink roses remind you so much of her so you do a full beautiful open pink rose casket spray with sheer ribbons flowing, or maybe grandma had the most beautiful garden and you want all colors and styles of the vibrant flowers to remember her by, your grandfather loved the fall and cattails by the ponds, you could do a full array of fall tones and add cattails and other dried decor to accent the casket spray. You can custom design to your liking and personalize it however you want. Never be afraid to ask as each can be very unique depending on the individual.

You can add photos and props to really express hobbies or passionate things that the person loved doing in this life to make it personalized.

You can choose matching arrangements to go on either side of the casket to blend and tie in the casket piece. Even 2 large peace lily plants decorated to coordinate with the casket spray is very appropriate and looks rich and elegant.

I do recommend sending a Fresh Bouquet rather than a spray due to the fact that there is a large water base that can be refilled to retain the life of the flowers in the bouquets. The fresh sprays are made in a base that has a limited supply of water and will have a very short life once out of the cooler and when the water is absorbed into the stems.

If you are sending flowers to another town, a Plant is always a really safe choice as most plants tend to vary less than a Fresh Designed arrangement would from florist to florist.

Flowers mean so much to the family at the time of loss and it is amazing how it can touch the heart just knowing that you have people out there in the world that care enough to send you flowers or plants and other floral gifts. Flowers are the perfect expression when words are hard to find.