Seasonal Design Highlight: Colorful Petite Teardrop Cascade Bouquet
In this Team Flower Seasonal Design Highlight, we're featuring a bouquet design by The Floral Coach, a wedding and event florist turned educator who offers online educational classes and one-on-one workshops. The Floral Coach can be found online at www.thefloralcoach.com or on social media @thefloralcoach_.
Believe it or not, bouquets are trending toward a more petite styling. In a bouquet demo during my Bouquet Bootcamp in the spring of 2021, I demonstrated how to create a simple hand-tied classic teardrop cascade bouquet using a mix of bright colors.
Creating a classic teardrop cascade bouquet is simpler than it looks!
Crucial Tips for a Cascade Bridal Bouquet
The key to creating hand-tied cascade bouquets (like the one above) is to choose ingredients that drape and are linear.
For example, Solomon seal, tulips, and Lysimachia are all flowers that allow for a natural cascading look. These line flowers and foliages help to create the point at the bottom of the bouquet.
As you work flowers up toward your hands, you will layer flowers in a spiral pattern, blending in smaller-headed blooms up to larger-headed blooms at the top. This progression of adding bloom heads keeps the shape intact and allows for the bouquet to stay balanced in color and shape.
Focusing on clustering flowers with like colors near one other creates focal areas. I utilize greens to extend lines and frame flowers while simultaneously working to keep the bouquet lightweight and not overstuffed or over-greened.
You can learn my in-depth cascade bouquet process in my upcoming online Bouquet Bootcamp course at thefloralcoach.com.
Utilize greens like they are blooms. that way, your bouquet remains petite and does not appear overstuffed.
PRO BOUQUET TIP: Design your cascade bouquet in a mirror and look often at the profile (side) of the bouquet to ensure your shape is consistent!
Cascade Bouquet Ingredients and Stem Count
Choose floral ingredients that drape naturally.
2 green hellebores
2 creme brulee phlox
1 coral poppy
1 davallia fern
1 red anemone
3 ranunculus
2 Solomon seal
2 white tweedia
1 distant drum garden rose
3 bi-color mini carnation, red/white
1 chablis peach spray rose
3 pink tulips
2 barista rose
2 peach carnations
2 white phlox
2 lavender phlox
2 white Lysimachia
4 honeysuckle vine
3 Nandina
Look at your arrangement from all sides.
You can create focal moments by creating a cluster of flowers.
All photos by Karen Obrist Photography