Sorry, this sort of comes under wedding flowers as well as themes, but as I could only pick one, I went for themes/colours - apologies if this was the wrong one!

So I knew from the minute I got engaged that my colours would be Cadburys Purple and ivory. But I've recently been thinking that it will look quite dark for a summer wedding and I want something bright and colourful that will really stand out against the purple. I've also been trying to think of a theme to tie everything together - the stationery, the flowers, the venue and overall feel for the day.

My two favourite flowers are sunflowers and daisies (I'm not sure what the 'technical' term is, but those flowers that look like over-sized daisies lol). I thought the yellow would look stunning against the purple - had an idea that my BMs could carry one each and then I could have a bunch. This would also solve my centre piece dilemma too.

However... I saw in a certain wedding magazine the other day a daisy theme - and completely fell in love with it. Again, the white daisies would go really nicely with the purple. I also had a vague idea of having a more rustic/back to nature kind of theme. I've also seen on a wedding blog how to make your own rubber stamp with a certain font that would fit in with this theme too.

But... would it be complete over-kill/craziness to combine the two together? Sunflowers AND daisies? Does this go? I'm considering having silk flowers as I've found a few companies whose prices are pretty reasonable, so I want to get in touch with them in the next year to get a quote, but I wanted to check that my idea isn't totally mental lol. I'm also making my own stationery (with the aid of my BM!) and need to get some ideas together for that as we'll have to make a start on the Save The Dates soon!

What do you think???

Thanks :-) (And an early happy new year to you all too!)

x

i think its a lovely idea but I can tell you that gerberas (the big dasies!) don't really 'go' with sunflowers because when I was having my bouquet mocked up by the florist she didn't have any yellow gerberas and used a sunflower instead and it looked silly!
I can however tell you that yellow gerberas are beautiful and are similar to sunflowers, they just don't have the big black middle. They're gorgeous flowers :o) I think a daisy theme would be beautiful and I tell you what would look lovely with the dark purple, the bright orange gerberas. They are the most gorgeous colour, they actually make me feel happy to look at them :o) xxx

these are my flowers, you can see the yellow gerberas. they come in pretty much every colour.

Kat831 - I saw a photo similar to that too and that's where I got the idea of combining it lol.

Mrs Brakes - your flowers are gorgeous! One of my original ideas was to have lots of bright colours, but I couldn't think of a way on how to combine it with a theme. How did you do it?

Thanks :-)

I'm having a mixture of cerise, bright orange and yellow gerberas and the bridesmaids are having cerise and orange to go with their aqua blue dresses. They are such happy summery flowers, I love them! White and yellow will look gorgeous with cadburys purple :o)

A bunch of multicoloured gerbera is just dreamy - I'm imitating this with my crocheted flowers. As said I'm not a big fan of flowers unless it's those.

Everything else was neutral, ivory dress and fg dress, grey suits and then the bright flowers and each of the 'main' men had different colour ties to match the flowers.