Ceremony flowers

Bedcause of the number of weddings performed in them every day, it is not usually feasible to decorate a register office. Therefore, go to town with the bouquets, buttonholes and corsages, using the bridal bouquet as the inspiration and centrepiece.

For locations where you can decorate with flowers, think about where you'll place them: at entrances and doors, gates and porches, pew or row ends, window sills, and at the alter, pulpit, huppah or equivalent. Put flower arrangements strategically where everyone is looking at them.

What you create with flowers is endless. Your starting point for your ceremony flowers is your bouquet. If you have an idea of how you want that to be, the choice of the rest of the flowers can develop from there.

Work with your florist and venue(s) and do your homework: seek inspiration from magazines, websites and flower markets. If you've time visit a flower show. Study the venue, what you likeabout it and what you don't, how it looks and feels and the mood you are trying to create. Take into account the time of the year and the time of day and remember what is in season. Think of weddings you have been to at similar venues and what did and didn't work, what you liked and what you didn't like. It is about lading your florist where you are thinking with ideas, with pictures and drawings.