Bringing the tulle back

[Mocha Rose]

I have a bride with a dress made out of french tulle and she is asking for a stylish and modern way to bring tulle into her wedding as a theme including the centerpieces. She hates the traditional 1980's tulle looks. Her colors are black, white and lime green and every other idea she has presented has been very stylish, clean and elegant.

I think it's a fun challange, but I just can't seem to get the creative juices going.

Any ideas? Any pictures?

 

[Dazeal]

How high are the ceilings? If they aren't too high, assuming it is inside... hang a sheet down from the ceiling to the table. Take french tulips and Callas, 5 to 7 each and tie a light weight fishing line to their ends at different lengths. Hang the flowers upside down as if it looked like they were raining while the tulle becomes the backdrop to make the flowers pop. Be sure and not block views to the head table. If views were going to be blocked, U shape the tulle back up to the ceiling and hang the flowers down at different lengths almost touch the table top.

I've done this before at in the large opening of a barn at a winery, without the tulle, but just the silhouette of the flowers against the sunset and then night and it looked so cool. I also stringed James Storie orchids that time. Then the wind blew is was a neat illusion.

Gl April - sorry I put epic on the back burner, poshcircle took center stage due to up and coming events.

 

[ctherose]

I like the look of bridal bouquets where the outside has been wrapped in quite a bit of tulle, kind of like a collar but even with the tops of the flowers. Could you adapt this to centerpieces--make it a haute couture type of bouquet--look to bridal fashions for inspiration--tulle & rhinestones. Maybe the corsages/bouts could have a "sheltered" feel and be enveloped in tulle as well. Not too creative here, just throwing out some ideas. Yum, french tulle!

 

[greatflowerlady]

OMG I just threw out all my tulle. Finally brides quit asking for it!! Yea!! for me. Mi. is about 3 years behind!! good luck! and please tell me it' not back in style!

 

[Connie]

OMG I just threw out all my tulle. Finally brides quit asking for it!! Yea!! for me. Mi. is about 3 years behind!! good luck! and please tell me it' not back in style!

As a matter of fact, for the next 3 nights, I'll be running a flower and gift booth for the local high school's beauty and talent show. It's a huge local event, and it is one of my community service projects with all profits going to the high school bands, which are the sponsors for the pageant. All of my help in the booth are volunteers, many of them high school students, and for the past 2 years, I've taken old rolls of tulle to be used as ribbon on the wrapped bouquets. Really I just took the tulle in case we ran out of the regular sheer ribbon. You guessed it! The girls who were helping grabbed that tulle and used it for every bouquet. They loved it. So, maybe we're seeing a new trend.

Oops! Here I go again rambling and off subject. I have no better suggestions for the centerpieces than those which have already been mentioned.

 

[greatflowerlady]

Well if any of you find a more updated look to tulle please pass it on. Because I am sick of it.. I even invested in new organza sashes for my brides to get them away from tulle. They look great on chairs for outside weddings. This weekends wedding I am tying on white sashes with hanging crystals and white dendros. should be fun~

 

[Mocha Rose]

These ideas are stirring up the juices. We are already doing a ceiling treatment of the tulle and I'm try to convince her not to go overboard. The room is a very old, gorgeous country club with neutral walls and drapes, wood floors and gold Chiavari. I'll bring up the idea of the hanging tulle. That could be a lot of fun as the windows are huge behind the bridal party.

GFL- I never really liked tulle (but love organza!). I cringed a little when she first said she wanted a tulle themed wedding. Now I just see it as a fun challenge. Everything does eventually come back in style so if designers start using it on high end dresses like this one, it will make every bride feel like they have to have it. This bride works for Prada and you could say that she is one step ahead of being stylish.

Don't throw out that tulle just yet! It needs to be reinvented.

Or maybe you should if it's been hanging around since the 80's. :tongue: