Moern Cascading Bridal Bouquets

[Snapdragon Studio]

I'm working on a blog post about modern cascading bride's bouquets. I would love to include photos from flowerchatters! Post your pics here, as well as any thoughts or details you think today's brides would be interested to hear.

To me, the modern cascade is much more organic than the 80s/90s versions. The cascading elements are created naturally by the shape of the flowers and stems, versus poking straight flowers into foam to create the shape. I also believe the modern bride wants a hand-tied cascading bouquet... but I know that several of you will disagree!

Here are a couple I've done:

 

[emilymoonflower]

Beautiful bouquets!
Emily

 

[KABERS]

I love your bouquets Jennifer. I did a cascading hand-tied bouquet this summer that had asiatic lilies in it. When I saw some of the pics on facebook, I have to say I was really disappointed. She was holding it all wrong and the lilies were beat to hell. Next time I will use hardier flowers and greenery.

 

[Gracie]

I'm going to be doing one of these for a late February bride, but I haven't decided yet how it will be constructed - whether to use a bouquet holder or a hand-tied. The bride is a landscape designer, and is willing to leave everything up to us including the flower selection (isn't that a dream!). The criteria is white flowers, but not a huge amount, some small pine cones, the cascade (which we have decided will be willow-leaf euc) and that the whole effect is to be more botanical than floral.

I'm sure that she'd be happier without the bouquet holder. So I'm interested and will be watching this thread for ideas on the mechanics!

 

[concord]

These are from a wedding I did this summer. We used a lot of herbs which are hard to see in the photos but smelled fabulous.

 

[Snapdragon Studio]

Helen, that herb bouquet is gorgeous! I wish I could smell it!

 

[RWK]

Mechanics of a hand-tied Cascading bouquet as I do them......I begin constructing the cascade FIRST with the longest materials first and progress up with shorter materials. I also do a lot of more structural type bouquets and for those....I still use a bouquet holder........covered with stems to look like a hand-tied.

 

[LOTAKIDS]

Here are a couple... two are hand ties and one is a holder with stems...