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Top 7 Wedding Flowers

There are thousands flowers in the world. But you need to choose the right flowers for your bridal bouquet. There are many flowers that are suitable for your wedding.

1. Roses
No wonder if Roses are the most used cut flower in the world. Because it symbolize love with various color (white, pink, & red), beautiful shape, and more than a hundred species. Besides the smell is good, rose is a durable flower. The characteristics of good roses are: long stemmed, bold petals, & has minimum five petals.

2. Tulips
If you think that tulip is a flower come from Dutch, you get wrong. Tulips are native to Central Asia & Persian Empire. The vast majority of tulips are being exported from Holland to all over the world. These cut flowers come with hundreds varieties with typically have one flower per stem and are available year-round.

3. Gerbera Gerbera is a genus of sunflower family. The name was taken from the last name of the German naturalist Traugott Gerber. The flowers grow with less water, so they are suitable for home gardening. Gerbera is popular for wedding bouquet because it is vary greatly in shape, color, and size. The capitulum is composed of hundreds of individual flowers.

4. Calla Lilies
Calla lilies are elegant flower. The flowers are very popular choices for bridal bouquets, flower arrangements, & home decoration because of its range of colors available with unique shapes. Calla lilies are poisonous plants, so if you want to arrange a bouquet made with calla lilies, consider keeping it far from children.

5. Hydrangea
A hydrangea bouquet should be a good choice for those who want a simple elegance nosegay bouquet. Hydrangea is native to southern and eastern Asia. White is the most species color. Other species can be pink, blue, purple, and red. Hydrangea has a unique shape. Its shape is suitable for making a nosegay bouquet.

6. Carnation
The carnation, scientifically known as Dianthus caryophyllus is a species of Dianthus. Colors include pink (natural color), red, white, yellow and green. Carnations usually are used for showing love and fascination. But cultivars of many colors can bring different symbol from each color. For example, white carnation may symbolize the purity of Mother's Day.

7. Stephanotis
Stephanotis can make a simple cake become elegant. The flower has white petals, star-shaped flower, and dark green leaves. The best known stephanotis species is Stephanotis floribunda whose are popular component of wedding bouquets.

About suwarnaadi@yahoo.com
Written by Mark Suwarna, a flower arranger and wedding planner. Browse his galleries of unique wedding flowers on his blog: http://bizarreweddingflowers.blogspot.com.

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