5 Flower Decor Ideas for Your Micro Wedding
Are you planning a more intimate wedding ceremony and celebration this year? If you are and you’d love some wedding flower and decor tips, then take a look at the 5 micro wedding ideas below.
Using a colour palette to your advantage, having buttonholes and corsages for your guests and considering fragrance for your bouquet are some of the ways you can have flowers and decor with impact. Here are some ideas for you for your micro wedding:
Vases for wedding bouquets
Are you having a meal in a restaurant for your wedding reception or hiring a space for you and your group to head to after your wedding ceremony?… prepare the tables beforehand so they’re set up with vases filled with fresh water so you can place your wedding bouquets in them. Large jam jars or pickle jars would also work really well for this job too. You’ve been holding onto your bouquet all day, and now it’s time to enjoy the company of family and friends with food and drink, so instead of finding a gap between your cutlery and wine glass, have a vase to place your bouquet into instead. This wedding styling tactic adds extra floral decor to the tables and puts your mind at ease because no bridesmaid bouquet will be left without a place to be.
2. Dried flower buttonholes
Dried buttonholes will last for months longer and can be kept as momentos for your special day. You could also have some made up to send to family or friends who aren’t able to come to your smaller ceremony, to show you’re thinking of them. If you’re thinking this is a floral detail you’d like to include, I’ve got a collection of dried flower buttonholes over on my Etsy shop, head here to have a browse.
3. Colour palette
Having 2 or 3 colours in your wedding can help link all the decor of the day together. You could be thinking of having tones of apricot and powder blue, or burnt orange with putty and clay tones. Whichever colours you’re drawn to, when you’re planning the decor for your wedding, keep these tones on repeat throughout the day. Flowers, dresses, ties, pocket squares, ribbons for bouquets, shoes, napkins, menus and place names are all opportunities to bring in your dream colour palette for your wedding. If you’re having a smaller occasion, the selected colours will pack even more of a punch in a cosy venue and in your cherished photos with your family and friends.
4. Wrist corsages
photo by Allison Dewey Photography
Wrist corsages are a handy way for your wedding party to have a floral accessory with them for the entirety of the day. They’re great for bridesmaids who may not be able to hold a bouquet for the whole day. Also, instead of putting a pin through a lovely jacket, a wrist corsage is simply tied round the wrist with a ribbon.
5. Fragrance
Aside from wearing your favourite perfume for your wedding day, you could also include fragrant flowers and foliage in your bouquet and wedding flowers. Foliage like rosemary, bay, sage and eucalyptus are all scented and work really well in a wedding bouquet amongst the flowers. Then, each time you smell those fragrances again you’ll remember your wedding day fondly. Rosemary on the bbq will now send you straight back to the day you got married!
A micro wedding or a smaller and more intimate wedding day is a great chance to go for pocket rocket impact with your flowers and decor. Flowers for the people at your wedding, vases for your bouquets and a colour palette flowing through the day will all help you create a stunning wedding day.
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