Basic Bridal Bouquet Design

There are several style categories of bridal bouquet design. I will describe the six basic styles and the variations of them. All of these styles can be made with fresh or artificial flowers. Non floral items can be added to your bouquet such as feathers, pearls, crystals, ribbon, raffia…your choices are abundant. Some styles are much easier to make than others. If you want to make your own bridal bouquet and those of your bridesmaids, you could save a substantial amount of money. I’ll start with the easiest style.

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Hand Tied – This has become a very popular style with brides today. It can be anything from a mixed variety of flowers in a tousled look to a neat round ball of one type of flower. The stems are usually wrapped in ribbon or with a premade bouquet wrap made of pearls, sequins or gemstones with the bottom of the stems exposed. This style can be very small to quite large.

Nosegays, pomanders, poesies and tussie mussies fall into this basic category.

In Elizabethan times, nosegays and pomanders were made of fragrant herbs and flowers and were originally used to wear close to the nose to cover the stench in the streets and the plague or to ward off bad spirits. The Victorians turned flower giving into an art, known as Floriography. A small bouquet made of flowers, herbs and greenery known as a tussie mussie became very popular for this. Beaus would court their intendeds with tussie mussies. Tussie mussie holders are small, Victorian style, metal or glass cones.

Oval – The oval bouquet is made very similar to the round bouquet except the flower stems are cut longer for the top and bottom flowers and shorter on the sides making the oval shape. By making a few changes, the oval bouquet can be transformed into a heart shape.

Crescent – This is a dramatic arch shaped bridal bouquet design with flowers and greenery flowing from the center into an arch pattern and then tapering at the ends. They can be made in a symmetrical or an asymmetrical form by arranging flowers in an offset fashion with one side of the arch shorter than the other. This bouquet can have a traditional or a contemporary look to it.

There are other more intricate bridal bouquet designs such as the muff, fan, prayer book, basket, cone, wreath and scepter. Ask your florist for ideas if you are interested in these more complex designs.

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