Bead Flowers Gives Advice on Wedding Bouquets

Bead Flowers considers how best to choose your wedding bouquet. This article will help you decide between fresh and faux flowers.

London, England (PRWEB) December 3, 2005 -- Any bride knows that her bouquet is as much a crucial part of her outfit as her dress. Having the right bouquet will add the perfect finishing touch to your look. Traditionally, the big decisions focused on colour, variety of flower and size and shape of bouquet. Now, there is another factor to consider – the question of fresh or faux flowers.

Increasing numbers of brides are choosing to use faux flowers in their bouquet. Faux flowers now look as realistic as their fresh counterparts and they offer a number of advantages. There is no need to be restricted to flowers that are in season – all flowers are available year round. Of course, if you are feeling particularly creative, you can even play around with colours – why not include blue roses? Many people suffer allergies to pollen and there is nothing worse than walking up the aisle feeling like you are about to sneeze! On the subject of pollen, no bride wants pollen stains on her wedding dress and with faux flowers this will not be a problem. Finally, more and more couples are choosing to get married abroad and it simply is not feasible to carry fresh flowers overseas. Of course, faux flowers do not smell or provide that special tradition, but they will last forever.

Once you have decided which type of flower to use, it is important to remember that there is more than one type of faux flower. Silk flowers are the obvious choice, but there is a more innovative and very beautiful alternative emerging at weddings in the United States. Beaded Flowers are a work of art in themselves and offer all the benefits of faux flowers mentioned above. Beaded flowers have been going in and out of fashion for centuries. They are made from glass beads and are thought to have emerged in Medieval Venice. The wives of the artisans who manufactured glass, used the beads that their husbands produced to develop a beautiful craft. Known as French Beading, this traditional craft uses thousands of minute glass beads to create three-dimensional flowers that look as real as fresh flowers. Interest in beaded flowers has waxed and waned since that time – they were extremely popular in the Victorian era, underwent a small resurgence in the 1960s and are now coming back into fashion today.

If you are interested in finding out more about beaded flowers or in commissioning your own beaded flower bouquet, visit Bead Flowers at www.beadflowers.co.uk or phone +44 (0)7740 706 484.

About Bead Flowers:
Bead Flowers is based in England and offers a range of individually designed flowers, jewellery and gifts, all handcrafted from top quality glass beads, using traditional beading techniques. Bead Flowers also sells beads, beading kits and undertakes commissions.

Contact:
Bead Flowers
http://www.beadflowers.co.uk

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