Fall Wedding Flowers
October is a good time for marriages. The climate is generally dry and cool. October is also a good time for flowers due to the abundant harvest. Like all other seasonal weddings, fall weddings have their popular flower choices.
Montbretia is one such delicate flower. It consists of a series of small, individual tubular florets arranged as a comb along the upper portion of a long, slim stem.
Its color ranges from yellow-orange to brick-red, perfect for the season.
Hypericum is another popular choice. It is usually raisin-brown in color but is also available in yellow, green, orange, red and pink.
Roses are the popular choice for all weddings, but the best picks for this season are Leonidas (chocolate-brown), Terra Cotta (burnt orange), Star 2000 (coral-orange), Black Magic (darkest, velvet burgundy), Hocus Pocus (a variety with dark burgundy petals flecked with yellow spots), Mambo (tangerine-orange spray variety), Konfetti (deep yellow with red-orange blaze), Red Berlin (tomato- red), and Sari (apricot-orange).
To highlight the texture of the fall season, dry grasses like rye and wheat can be used in the bouquet. A variety of fall-toned foliage like copper beech, croton leaves, or vine mapleliage is available in the market.
Some choices for fall wedding flowers (categorized by color) are:
Reds/Pinks:
Poinsettia, Euphorbia, Holly, Cotoneaster, Amaryllis, Carnation, Primula, Viburnum, Daphne.
Yellows:
Iris, Winter Jasmine, Narcissus.
Purples/Blues:
Iris
White:
Shrub honeysuckle, Amaryllis, Narcissus, Snowdrop, Carnation
Greenery:
Mrs. Robb's Bonnet, Mahonia, Hemlock, Senecio, Blue Spruce, Ivy.
It is always advisable to choose flowers for the wedding according to the season, along with your personal choice..
A Harvest Halloween
To take advantage of the last days of autumn, we planned an outdoor Halloween party at our family farm. This gave us an opportunity to bring our friends together in an informal setting before the hectic holiday season. The kids grew excited as we drove past the harvested fields of rural farmland, the grazing cattle, and brimming roadside stands. The sights and smells of the country awoke their spirits of adventure and they burst from the car as soon as we stopped at the end of the dirt road. As they explored their surroundings, the adults began to set up.
Our party centered on the activity of making scarecrows. We brought out baskets piled high with faded denim coveralls, straw hats, and flannel shirts. The children enthusiastically costumed themselves as well as the scarecrows. They collected autumn grasses and flowers and wove them into straw hats to take home as mementos.The country setting and the crisp autumn air inspired many activities. Sack races, a tug of war, and a scavenger...
A Harvest Halloween
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Brisbane, Australia (ContentDesk) July 30, 2006 -- A baby boomer is someone who was born during the period of increased birth rates when economic prosperity arose in many countries following World War II. In the Western World, the term is iconic and more properly capitalised as Baby Boomers and commonly applied to people with birth years from the span 1946 to 1964, which may comprise more than one generation. Baby boomers presently make up the lion's share of the political, cultural, industrial and academic leadership class in most Western democracies. From Tony Blair to George W. Bush, with Bill Clinton in between!It can be argued that the defining event of early baby boomers was the Vietnam War and the protest over the draft, but it would be certainly correct to say it was the generation of The Beatles, The Motown Sound, and those ex-Woodstock Hippies, with flowers in their hair.A new web site has been created which contains a wealth of information specific to the Baby Boomer generation,...
New Baby Boomers Web Site Launched: Get it All Here - Targeted Information for Our G-G-Generation
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