Fair warning: you will feel like the 80s have returned when I tell you that cascade wedding bouquets are back! The good news is that giant shoulders have not returned to wedding dresses, so you won't look totally retro if you rock a cascade bouquet on your wedding day.
Our vendor friends and the fine folks at Community Florist, who made our in-store bouquet samples, confirm they are back, but they are a bit shorter and incorporate more modern elements. Here are a couple of pics of the cascade wedding bouquet I have in the store:
See? It's not nearly as long as the old styles. Cascade bouquets work well for outdoor weddings. This would be great by a creek in Flagstaff–I love the wood elements they've added in. Here's a close up:
But the best part, I think, is on the "stem". It has brown ribbon wrapped on the stems, then over that, an open-work, lacey ribbon with pearl pins:
Another wedding bouquet trend is to add fun "stuff" to your flowers. You can add glittery picks, small animals, charms… pretty much anything you can think of that expresses your theme, your love story, or an interest of you and your beloved's. Here's an example:
This bouquet has little green balls on wires. Here's a close up:
