Calla Lilies for an Elegant Winter Wedding Theme
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Calla Lilies from Field to Florist
Calla Lilies, Bolinas, California
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The Most Popular Wedding Flower Choice
Why do Brides choose Calla lilies most often for their wedding flowers? Only the Bride herself can tell you precisely why it was the most favored choice for her, but it isn't hard to see numerous reasons that make Calla lilies the number one wedding flower choice.
If you are thinking of featuring Calla lilies in your wedding, here are decor and flower ideas to give you a head start. Make your wedding flower selection a happy part of the best day in your life.
The Most Popular Choice for Good Reason
The blooms have presence; just a few make a statement. The simple curved shape of the spathe (the part most evident) is very modern in form.
Why are Callas First on the Wedding Flower List?
- The blooms are extremely elegant. A smooth modern form, creamy white color or subtle tints, and their long stalk make them sublime for wedding flower use.
- A Calla lily is an all season flower, available at any time of the year. They are also all season in their look, not being identified strongly with any certain month like peonies or chrysanthemums. But they are at their best in winter, when other choices are scarce.
- A versatile flower that can be incorporated within all of the wedding flower arrangements and uses, whether it be bouquets or centerpieces.
More Reasons To Choose a Calla Winter Theme
Top of the list for the most popular, most available, and most versatile flower for weddings.
They have a distinctive appearance, and their strong lines are best paired with foliage or flowers that echo the simple curved lines of the flower.
Bear grass is a classic foliage pairing.
When Simplicity Is Important
Whenever a brides taste was for artistic, modern, and simple, a few stems created just the right effect. Vintage Wedding, Bride and Groom, Newlyweds Postcard
Sophisticated Bouquet
In the classic white bouquet, only a few will be needed with some floral accents and variegated foliage. It creates a fresh and artistic flower bouquet that won't look fussy or "over the top". Found on iweddingnews.com/
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The Look
One reason that Brides love this flower is the elegant, curvilinear shape of the blooms.
Just a few of the flowers can make a beautiful statement, and I helped set up a wedding reception that had simple arrangements of three calla lilies each in a tall, clear, modern vase with only a few strands of bear grass. Each table was set off magnificently, and the simple arrangements made quite a statement.
Beautiful Colors
These blooms come in some of the most delicious colors, and always look tasteful.
A Bride's bouquet of white can be echoed with the attendants having the same flower shape of callas with the nuance of the wedding colors in their bouquets.
Or the bridal bouquet can be the color of one of the several that make Calla lilies so sophisticated. Calla lilies come in Pinks, Lavenders, Eggplant, Orange, Peach, Yellow, and Bi-colors.
Different Sizes
They also come in mini sizes. That is enough variety to cover bridesmaids, flower girls, boutonnieres, Mother's corsages, and every other wedding flower arrangement. No wonder Calla lily is a top choice for wedding flowers.
Why Choose One Elegant Flower for Your Entire Wedding?
Availability is just one of the reasons to go with this for your bridal flowers. Ease of design, and an eye on the budget are two more factors in favor of this theme.
Available Online
Ordered online, fresh and direct, have a buckets of water ready to submerse and ready your flowers for arrangements, if you are making D-I-Y wedding flowers.
I have worked with these, and they are easy and outstanding in effect.
For Fall Weddings
Seasonal Flower Availability
There is no "off-season" for Calla lilies, so simply remember to order at least four weeks in advance of your event, ensuring the type and color of your chosen flowers.
If other flowers are used with them, be sure florists can as easily obtain those materials as well. Check with the month listed in my Wedding Flower link, for flowers in season. Choosing flowers that are available to florists will keep costs down and make sure that your planned blossoms are obtainable.
Theme Flower Versatility
Their beauty means that the shape is used in decorating many different types of accessories. Whether you wish your flower theme to be echoed in guestbooks, cake decorations, candles, or even decals on the wall, Calla lily designs are likely to be found.
About This Flower
Of the Zantedeschia genus the flower most often called and sold as the Calla lily is Zantedeschia aethiopica, which is also known as the arum lily. Other names? Trumpet lily and Pig lily.
Large, with white blooms, there are other types sold which have colors. All varieties with colorful flowers are other species of Zantedeschia. Most are not hardy north of Zone 7 or 8, but Z. aethiopica may survive in zone 6.
Native to South Africa, the plants grow in marshes close to bodies of water.
Comes in Colors!
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Blooms for any Month
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From Budget Saving to Designs that will Wow
Take a look at wedding flower idea books, they will inspire you.
If 'how to' or just inspiration is needed a flower design book is going to save time and money in figuring which flowers to pick, and how to use them.
Besides the Fresh Flowers, Bridal Accessories
With the many accessories in this motif, there are an array of ways to tie together the theme of everything in the wedding décor.
Make them your Emblem
Wedding Accessories with Flair - Gala Calla Event
Make the Favors Special - Arum Lily designs fit into any Décor
Make your wedding one to remember, with favors that remind your guests of your joy, and grace their homes with an elegant candle holder.
One way to use these is as table décor. Lighting the reception tables, include notes on the tables which invite your guests to take one home. Save the attractive boxes for your guests to transport their lovely votive holders home. Such a lovely reminder of a perfect wedding!
Beauty
Votive Lights
Your guests will know they stepped into a special time and place from the very beginning. Greet them with the elegance of Calla-decorated accessories repeating the swirling curved theme of your floral choice.
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Corsage Instruction
Meaning and Symbolism
Two ways of denoting meaning through the inclusion of certain flowers are by consulting a "Language of Flowers" Victorian resource and also by the modern cultural connotation.
The usual color of an arum lily (another name for them) is white, and that is the color chosen for weddings because it represent innocence and purity. The Victorian meaning for the flower was "Magnificent Beauty". Combine the two meanings and there is a symbol for Innocent, or Pure Beauty, which is very appropriate for a wedding day.
When colors vary from white, the emotional meaning of color comes into the picture. Red is connected with passion, Orange is playfulness and happiness, Pink is feminine, and Yellow is cheer and sunshine. For some, the colors may carry other meanings, and it is a good idea to investigate how people in your culture (or one you marry into) may feel about a specific hue.
Because of its long association with marriage in our culture, another significance is to wish for "marital bliss", "true devotion".
It is good reason to center décor around this stylish flower.
From Tip to Toe
Right from the start with the save-the-date to the final day with nail art as a finishing touch, the form of this flower can adorn all parts of the celebration.
The Bride's Bouquet
A More Modern Look
Because this flower is so elegant it is chosen for a decoration on many wedding items, such as pens, guestbooks, favors, wedding goblets, and candles, to just name a few. Every accessory possible seems to come with the calla motif.
It gives a look that is modern or traditional. It was a favored flower during the roaring twenties and is just as popular today.
It was delightful to see how easy it is to carry this theme throughout the wedding and reception venue. Seamlessly transitioning from table to guestbook areas, highlighting the bridal table, decorating the Church, it is no wonder this is the one most popular wedding flower rivaling even the traditional rose.
The lines of this flower, its ability to stand alone (two flowers in a vase make a statement) create a modern, sophisticated mood.
Bridal Photo Vignette
Wedding Vignette is centered with elegant blossoms.
Continue The Theme Into The Cake Decoration
Wedding Arrangements - From Bouquets To Sugar Paste Cake Flowers
Learn how to make the Calla lily a part of your wedding celebration- here are some ideas and how-to videos. If you aren't a d-i-y person, let the design ideas illustrate what you wish in a cake or bouquet.
Create Theme Sugar Flowers for the Cake
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- Calla Lily Wedding Theme
Loads of inspiring pinterest photos all centered on Calla lilies
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