Naturally Elegant Designs

from Holly at Naturally Elegant Designs:

Whatever your personal style, your wedding flowers should reflect you. Your flowers should be gorgeous, lush and smell heavenly.  From the traditional to the exotic, modern and sumptuous, Naturally Elegant Designs will create flower arrangements uniquely personalized to you.  Together we’ll set the perfect mood and atmosphere with the ideal combination of color, light and textures for all the events surrounding the ceremony and reception. Naturally Elegant Designs creates European designs with a touch of New England flavor.  Incorporating the season of the year, setting of ceremony and reception, we weave the elements with your desired ambiance and you have a floral design that will make your heart sing.  For Naturally Elegant Designed flowers for your special day, give us a call to schedule your first consultation.

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TRENDS: Creating a destination with the help of flowers

For those who, given the economy, may not be able to go away for the night or weekend, florists can play an important role in helping romantics be creative. If you can’t actually go to a desired destination, why not create it at home?

Flowers can take you places and help you relive fond, romantic memories … whether it be reminiscing about a Caribbean honeymoon, creating a relaxing spa retreat feel, or reliving a wine country getaway – flowers can set the stage for a romantic evening in.

Caribbean honeymoon.

• Tropical flowers, such as Birds of Paradise, anthurium, ginger, or orchids) with an accent of fresh fruit and foliages

• A simple collection of orchids in a vase

• Bells of Ireland and delphinium. The cool greens and blues will conjure up the memories of the beautiful Caribbean.

We can even add sand and seashells in bouquets or vases to really create the mood!

European vacation

• Richly colored flowers in purples, reds and blues

• Hand-tied bouquet of all accent flowers and a couple of roses

• Textural hand-tied bouquets embellished with decorative beads and wires with colorful wraps

• A loose arrangement of garden-style flowers such as tulips, hydrangeas, rannunculus and roses in a clear glass vase or decorative container.

• An arrangement that resembles the French countryside: Fresh herbs and wild flowers like heather, daisies, delphinium and miniature roses would be pretty and romantic.

• A French Garden of bright-hued blooming plants arranged in a classic wicker basket

• European dish garden – mixture of flowering or green plants and fresh flowers.

Spa Weekend

• Aromatic flowers like freesia, stock and sweet peas to sooth the senses.

• An arrangement of relaxing blues, lavenders and greens with fresh eucalyptus and soft foliage and some select bath products.

• Several small blue and green arrangements to place in the bathroom or bedroom.

• All white arrangement with sea glass vases or frosted aquamarine accents

• A fragrant selection of purple freesia in a clear cylinder with pale pink petals floating in the vase. The soft scent of freesia combined with the soothing color palette will embrace your sweetheart with a sense of calm.

• Monobotanic bouquet of blue iris in a clear glass vase with sea glass or shells clustered together in the bottom of the vase

• A simple glass vase filled with callas or white Casablanca lilies and cool blue glass gems inside the vase.

Wine Country Getaway

• A few beautiful roses or lilies arranged in an empty wine bottle shared on a past date. She’ll love the sentimentality.

• Deep reds (roses, carnations and soft greens). Add accents of vines, mosses and a bottle of wine.

• Grapevine or wreath around the design on the base or in and around, some fruit and a bottle of wine or a gift certificate to a wine shop.

• Grapes, sunflowers, grasses-outdoorsy and lots of yellow/peach/olive greens

• Burgundy flowers with fresh grapes and Brie cheese in a large basket

• Include a bottle of wine or fresh fruit and grapes with deep wine colored roses

• Bold collection of vibrant purple anemones or alstroemeria, green hydrangea, hypericum and red roses. This strong combination of color and texture will evoke the feeling of a stroll in the vineyards.

• Sunflowers and grapes.

Rich royal-colored floral bouquet consisting of a mixture of textural materials such as purple tulips, magenta stock, green hydrangea and lavender roses tied with natural raffia. The design may include clusters of grapes.