Wedding Bouquets by Season
Four gorgeous arrangements featuring flowers at their peak.
Summer
This pretty pouf of roses―giant garden blooms and rose geranium leaves (shown)―is simple but lush. Pale pinks, creams, and buttery yellows are a soft touch in sticky weather, and the hints of green pick up the grass outside.
Next: Fall
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There’s nothing wrong with setting out a traditional guest book at the reception for friends and family to sign, but you’ll probably slide it onto the bookshelf and never look at it again. Here, a few innovative options:
- Place a variety of note cards and paper on a table so guests can write short letters. Seal them, then open them on your first anniversary.
- Provide a stack of construction-paper strips―like the kind used in grade school to make paper chains―and ask each guest to write a message on one link that he or she then attaches to the chain. Beginning the day after your honeymoon, remove a link and read it together to relive your big day.
- Buy a coffee table cook. If you’re looking for something a bit more personal than a standard guest book but you just don’t have the time (or the skills) to make something yourself, buy a coffee-table book that has beautiful imagery of something of significance to you or your wedding. You could find a photography book of your wedding location (the mountains of Colorado), where you plan to honeymoon (Italian countryside), or a favorite children’s book (Good Night Moon). Set it on a table with Sharpie markers for guests to customize.
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