Do not underestimate the simplicity of cream and white. These wedding flowers combine cream roses, white freesias (which smell delicious) and white runuculus (my absolute favourite winter flowers!). The table settings combine these flowers onto a base of interesting foliage, i love creating big arrangements with lots of texture and greenery.

Autumn wedding season begins with these delicious tones appropriate to the season. Warm reds, oranges and yellows with lots of texture and berries…these are my favourite types of bouquets and they are such a joy to create! My bias towards these particular flowers probably stems from the fact that there are so many ranunculus in these bouquets, they certainly have to be one of my top five flowers! It’s such a delicious time of time year to get married and definitely under-rated!

If you are a lover of roses, then you’ll love these bouquets – packed full of roses. Don’t disregard the commonness of the rose, growers have got creative with their colour pallets, providing an array of colours, shapes and sizes (green roses anyone?)….These bouquets are romantic and tone in perfectly with the dusky pink bridesmaids dresses and the little spray roses are perfect to create corsages for mothers to pin onto their outfit. I love this time of year when viburnum is in season (the burgundy berry), it’s a perfect filler and tone in nicely with the dusky pink roses (which are called ‘something special’). Enjoy!

Ps. The little clusters tied to the jars are pew detail for the ceremony. This is a simple way to tie in the bridal party with the venue.

If you like the ‘picked from the garden’ look, then you’ll love these wedding flowers. Buying garden style flowers from the markets are always a challenge as they don’t have a long vase life (which is obviously an issue for shops). So, you may have seen me snipping flowers during the night from peoples gardens, or scavenging along the motorway to get those bits needed to make these bouquets look garden picked. These bouquets have lot of texture with not much structure, which is a nice change to arrange. These style flowers worked perfectly in the reception venue which was a cute local hall in west Auckland.

Oh so romantic. Large open avalanche (cream) and talea (pink) roses, they are so delicate. Lisianthius flowers are some of my favourite flowers and each year the range of colours grow, each bunch has a range of different sized flowers including little green buds. They work perfectly with an romantic antique theme – especially in these pastel tones.

This was one of the most delightful and creative weddings of the season (including the bride walking down the forest aisle on a horse). Each of the bouquets were quite unique – especially the ‘man of honour’ who carried an assembly of sticks, acorns, pine cones and figs. i love creating mono-chromatic bouquets, espcially when they are green. It’s an opportunity to mix unlikely textures like lotus pods and hanging amaranthus. Dark maroon and mustard were carried throughout the wedding including in the brides bouquet – cute little mustard flowers to match her shoes. It’s quite exciting to see lots of creativity been displayed in weddings this season.

These wedding flowers combined romantic antique tones with a pacific tones.  A slightly unexpected mix, though worked perfectly (just like Andrea and Marshall). I have recently discovered a delicious rose called “miss piggy” which tone in perfectly with coral which appears to be a popular colour in weddings this season. Singapore orchids are a perfectly delicate way to incorporate a pacifica theme into a wedding.

Oh deliciousness. I love this wedding, all the coordinating details in white, cream and green. I got to use some of the last white hydrangea’s of the season – they are so romantic! One of my favourite things to create is the long and low arrangements for the alter and head table. Each of the bridesmaid’s carried light and fluffy bunches of gypsophila which was dotted throughout the wedding.

Here’s some flowers that will brighten your day. These cheerful beauties worked perfectly for their garden wedding on a sunny day. It was so much fun to be able to mix up lots of different flowers, berries and foliage to create thess mixed up bunches. Cutting up an old sack made of burlap was a really nice rustic touch for binding the bouquets and worked perfectly with the wedding theme.

These wedding flowers where such a joy and delight to create. I loved using lots of texture, delicious sherbet colours and of course one of my favourite flowers – the dahlia. These flowers smelt extra fresh because of the eucalyptus foliage – it’s definitely the time of year to use silver foliage.

Photography by Jo Currie www.jocurrie.com 

This is what happens when i’m given a bit of free reign and a pallet of green and white. The beauty of a marquee is that you have a blank canvas to create in – and well, this very themed wedding using maps worked perfectly! I love working with greens and whites – the flowers always end up with lots of texture using interesting bits and pieces. One of my favourites in here is the green hanging amaranthus…

Oh PEONIES, you are so delicious… Unfortunately these beauties are only available from late October till mid December. If you are getting married during this time – these are an absolute essential!!!!….They are light and fluffy and so romantic. They also come in coral pink, light candy pink and a dark red.