Lee Enterprises - Western Region Bridal Guide 2025 | 17 Advice from a Nebraska designer on finding the right flowers for a fairy-tale wedding. Let YourLove Bloom their flowers on something that's not going to last for them.” Wedding flowers are very important to the ceremony, but it’s ultimately up to what the bride and groom want for their special day. As long as they can have their special day, that’s all that matters.
“It makes me incredibly happy when I can immerse not only the bride, but the entire party, family, everybody within this ‘fairy-tale’ evening, day or whatever,” Lipscomb said.
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Weddings are a joyous time in the lives of most couples. Planning a wedding, though, can be stressful and time consuming, with finding the right venue, outfits and foods. Finding the right flowers for the occasion also can be difficult, including the perfect bouquet with which to walk down the aisle. For people who want a flower-filled wedding, there are also table centerpieces, aisle decor, installations, and boutonnieres and corsages to fret over. According to Jeffrey Lipscomb, a floral designer for Williams Flower Company and Greenhouse, flowers can be incredibly important for weddings, as they can help emphasize the couple. It can also help get attendees excited for the ceremony. “You want to enhance not only the bride but the entire surroundings, so it kind of pulls people in and puts people in a formal setting, country setting, nonformal, you know,” Lipscomb said. “Pulls them in and gives them a break away from everyday doldrums.” But why is it difficult? Well, it doesn't have to be. Lipscomb said it helps when the bride comes in with a basic idea for what they want. “You don't have to come completely prepared, but it always helps if you have a base color feeling that you want,” Lipscomb said. “It always makes it easier for whoever's designing.” Lipscomb has worked with brides who have both majorly detailed plans and those who have had none. It’s Lipscomb's job to help conceptualize what the bride wants; he figures out details of the wedding to decide which would be best. “Time of day, the feeling, whether they want it to be formal, opulent, very over the top,” Lipscomb said. “Or if they want it to be very casual or somewhere in between.” There are also some popular wedding flowers people can choose from. Lipscomb said roses will always be a common choice, and baby's breath have made a resurgence in weddings. “Baby's breath used to be really popular, and then it went into hibernation, and now it's starting to make a resurgence,” Lipscomb said. “So people are looking for things with baby's breath in it now, which is amazing, you know; everything's reciprocal.” While there are no wrong flowers to choose from, Lipscomb recommends people avoid delicate flowers like gardenias or orchids. According to Lipscomb, delicate flowers don’t hold up for long lengths of time and are more likely to get ruined. “The people would waste their money,” Lipscomb said. “And I don't like to see people waste their budget that they've set for
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