Picking the Perfect Wedding Colors: Hafner Florist Helps Toledo Area Brides Find a Bold, Dramatic Balance

Written by Abigail Sterling, Published June 2, 2011



Hafner Florist Designs Beautiful Bridal Flowers for Toledo



As the unifying element to any wedding, the wedding flower colors derive from a combination of a bride’s stylistic tastes and seasonal trends.  Brides often find inspiration for this important bridal component in the most unlikely places.  After determining colors that brides do and don’t like, Hafner Florist transforms personal color preferences into bold and beautiful wedding flowers. 

First, brides should become very familiar with their wedding and reception locations, according to TheKnot.com.  What is the lighting in the space like?  Is the location stylistically modern or traditional?  What mood does the bride seek to set in the space?  Because different locations set unique moods, brides can select wedding flower colors that enhance the aesthetic quality of the place.  Because Hafner Florist has developed many close relationships with most churches and halls in the Toledo area, the wedding consultants are familiar with the décor in these establishments and can help brides determine complementary colors.  It is important to consider the décor and color palate of each location in order to develop harmonizing wedding flower colors that unify the mood and tone of the wedding day.

The next step is to identify a bride’s individual preferences.  Inspiration can derive from many places – a fabric store or the produce section at the grocery store, for example.  Ultimately, brides should identify colors that make them happy.  What is the color of a bride’s bedspread?  Her kitchen placemats?  Inspiration can come from the simplest places, too.

Keeping it simple – three or four colors, tops – is the best way to ensure a unified wedding flower color scheme.  These colors should be balanced between bold and softer, more neutral hues to be aesthetically pleasing instead of “over-the-top.”  Currently popular color combinations include navy blue/hot pink/magenta, white/light-green, yellow/silver/black, and teal/magenta.  Hafner Florist offers a wide variety of flowers, foliages, and accessories to bring these trends (and many more!) to life.  For more information concerning popular color trends, visit the Hafner Florist Trends Page.  After identifying her wedding flower colors, a bride can experiment with different shades and textures to add depth.  Wedding consultants at Hafner Florist can suggest a variety of flowers, accessories, and foliages that heighten the dramatic effect of any color scheme.  

When discussing her wedding flower colors with the wedding consultant, the bride should have in mind the number of people in the wedding party who will need flowers.  This number helps the wedding consultant determine the right balance of each color in every piece so that the color scheme is well balanced and unified.  Regardless of a bride’s color preferences, Hafner Florist can achieve a unique presentation that any bride is sure to love.   

Hafner Florist Helps Brides Make the Most of Budgets with Creative, Economical Solutions

 Written by Abigail Sterling, Published May 28, 2011

Ordering the perfect wedding flowers for a bride’s individual budget may seem like a daunting task.  How much of the budget should be allocated for wedding flowers?  What will a bride get for her money?  According to TheKnot.com, “[a bride] can plan on spending about 8% of [her] overall budget” on bridal flowers.  Luckily, Hafner Florist provides dozens of wedding flower options and money-saving choices to help brides stay well within their budgets.    

Recent Bridal Bouquet Created By Hafner Florist

While each wedding is unique, many brides seek a bridal bouquet, bridesmaids’ bouquets, boutonnieres, corsages, and ceremony and reception arrangements.  Granting the florist design-flexibility reveals equally beautiful and less costly flower alternatives without devaluing the overall presentation.  For example, using less expensive flowers for large church arrangements that are likely viewed at a distance cuts costs without forsaking style.  Additionally, reusing church arrangements at the reception, such as the unity centerpiece as a head table arrangement or the bridesmaid’s bouquets as centerpieces, helps brides make the most of their budgets.

For the bride considering specific flowers that will be out of growing season on her wedding date, Hafner Florist can suggest seasonal, locally grown alternatives that are equally stunning and less costly.  Often, out-of-season flowers are difficult for the florist to locate (though certainly not impossible, lack in quality, and are more expensive (because they are out-of-season).  Hafner Florist wedding consultants are well-informed about the different growing seasons and can offer various substitutions that will help brides stay within their wedding flower budgets.  Concerning the seasons, another important factor for brides to consider is the date of their weddings in relation to holidays.  Typically, flower prices are higher around major floral holidays, such as Valentine’s Day, due to the increase in supply and demand.  When setting a wedding date, brides should be mindful of such influences on floral prices.

In additional to methods for cutting costs on flowers, Hafner Florist provides the option to rent a wide variety of vases, exhibition pillars, and other pricey items.  Renting these items not only eliminates the bride’s hassle of handling them, but it also leaves more of the wedding flower budget for just that – the flowers!  Ultimately, Hafner Florist seeks to accommodate all budgets by offering creative alternatives without diminishing style and elegance.  

Hafner Florist Offers Endless Varieties of Rental Items, Bouquet Accessories to Enhance Any Wedding Flower Look

Written by Abigail Sterling, Published May 16, 2011



Tree Votive Holder Centerpiece



For brides seeking cost-conscious convenience, Hafner Florist offers a wide variety of rentable items, such as vases of virtually any shape and size, disposable candles, and votive cups.  Renting these items allocates a bride’s wedding flower budget toward breathtaking, exquisite flowers instead of costly accessory purchases.  Instead of hunting for expensive, hard-to-find items such as a flower-adorned wedding arch, decorative mirrors, and pillars to exhibit large arrangements, Hafner Florist offers brides the option of renting these items, which eliminates the hassle and ensures a unified, one-of-a-kind wedding presentation for every bride.

The sky is the limit when it comes to vase options for centerpieces.  Hafner Florist presents many unique vase styles, including Eiffel tower vases for a sleek, soaring look, bubble balls for a short, round style, and pilsner vases, which are among the most popular wedding vases.  Rentable 6-foot tall table trees and wrought-iron votive trees create a charmed, enchanted look that is sure to make any wedding day memorable.  Regardless of a bride’s individual preferences, Hafner Florist offers various rentable vase styles to complement any unique look.

In addition to rentable items, brides can customize their bridal flowers with various trendy bouquet accessories, including butterflies, colorful wire, and rhinestones.  Eccentric accessories highlight the beauty of wedding flowers while contributing to the overall originality of the floral presentation.  For example, rhinestones and pearls placed carefully in the center of stephanotis blooms and roses add a touch of elegance to any wedding design.  Similarly, colored feathers are beginning to make a comeback, giving wedding flowers chic flair. 

Another option for wedding flower customization is the integration of a bride’s memorable keepsakes.  Hafner Florist often incorporates keepsake charms, jewelry, and other items into bridal flowers.  What better way to tailor wedding flowers to a bride’s personality and tastes than to integrate her own meaningful items?

Treasure Chest for your cards. Hafner Florist rents these
out and adds flowers to match your wedding colors.

From flower-adorned wedding arches to the most stylish bouquet accessories, Hafner Florist provides reasonably-priced alternatives for every budget.  Hafner Florist seeks to fulfill each bride’s wedding flower dreams by offering rentable items that eliminate the hassle of finding, purchasing, and handling.  Additionally, bouquets can be enhanced with the integration of trendy accessories and a bride’s memorable keepsakes.  Regardless of a bride’s tastes, these items surely unify and accentuate any wedding flower look.           

Hafner Florist Eases Wedding Flower Stress with Fun Staff and Creative, Affordable Design

By Abigail Sterling, Published on May 10, 2011

Recent wedding flower design by Hafner Florist

Not all bridal “to-do” tasks have to be stressful and expensive.  Hafner Florist aims to make the wedding flower process exciting and fun for the Northwest Ohio bride-to-be.  “They were wonderful to work with.  They know how to listen to a bride and her mom, something that is not always easy,” a reviewer on TheKnot.com says about Hafner Florist.  Through consultations, Kelli and Beth combine their experience, talent, and creativity in order to tailor wedding flowers to brides’ specific tastes.  “I simply gave [Kelli] a list of the colors and flowers that I liked, but I figured that she is the expert and would do a great job, and I was right!” a bride notes on TheKnot.com.  Hafner Florist eliminates bridal worries with the designers’ vast talents and fresh creativity, producing a pleasant experience for each bride.  Brides can feel at ease knowing that they will have unique and long-lasting flowers for their special day.

Wedding flowers at Hafner Florist are also affordable.  “They were fair and very honest about costs,” the reviewer from TheKnot.com acknowledges.  Regardless of a bride’s needs, Hafner Florist can customize flower orders to fit particular wedding dimensions:  “All I needed were bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages,” the bride discloses.  Hafner Florist can adapt wedding flower orders regardless of size and amount in order to fulfill the bride’s wishes and budget.  “The prices are comparable to many of the other florists in the area,” the same bride notes.  Ultimately, Hafner Florist seeks to provide an affordable and enjoyable wedding flower process for each bride.  

“In Season” in Any Season: Hafner Florist Puts a Twist on Classic Wedding Flower Trends

By Abigail Sterling, Published on April 23, 2011

Like any aesthetic product, wedding flower trends are constantly evolving.  While popular color combinations and floral styles change seasonally, countless brides seek to honor the traditional wedding flower trends that are fitting in any season.  For these brides, Hafner Florist offers a classical twist on color and style to capture the emotions of ageless love and passion.    


Red Rose Centerpiece



Throughout time, red roses have solidified their reputation as the flower symbolizing affection.  Widely appreciated for their beauty and fragrance, roses are the most popular wedding flower.  Hafner Florist offers only the highest-quality roses.  Many brides return from their honeymoons to find their bridal roses as beautiful and healthy as can be!  Brides can achieve this classic flower trend with roses of other colors, too; there are over 100 species of roses, ranging in color from red to violet.  Many species of roses have been cross-pollinated or altered to create hybrid roses, which may have striations or nontraditional hues.  Ultimately, there is a rose for every color scheme.

               

For brides looking for an “all-natural,” traditional presentation, organic form and color produce an airy, free-flowing style.  Through contrasting and complementary foliages and branching, this wedding flower trend emanates a sense of elegant simplicity.  Mixing unique textures and colors of naturally-occurring flower colors, such as white and light green, creates a soothing, tranquil expression for bouquets, centerpieces, and boutonnieres.  Hafner Florist can produce centerpieces in a bride’s own vintage containers, which allow the bride’s personality to permeate this elegant expression and contribute toward the soothingly natural presentation of organic variety. 

               

For a dreamlike, fantasy presentation, brides can choose soft and dainty garden flowers, such as pastel roses and peonies.  Graceful, exquisite petals gently bursting with romantic elegance transform any wedding day into a fairytale.  In addition to pastel colors, Hafner Florist can enhance this beautifully elegant expression with the faint glow of submersible arrangement lighting and LED tea-lights, radiating the entire room with dainty, dreamlike charm. 

               

Despite the many different wedding trends that emphasize color, many brides look to highlight the pure essence of matrimony through a pristine, all-white presentation.  Hafner Florist finds that up to 75% of weddings still use all-white flowers.  This classic flower trend evokes timeless feelings of purity, goodness, and faith.  For brides seeking this wedding trend, Hafner Florist offers dozens of white flowers differing in size, fragrance, and style – such as roses, peonies, stock, and gerber daisies.

               

No matter the season, classic wedding flower trends remain a popular presentation for brides.  Timeless styles, like “all-natural,” organic looks and the all-white trend, evoke a sense of age-old tradition and elegance.  Hafner Florist is eager to personalize these trends with a bride’s own keepsakes and beautiful accents and accessories.  While current trends are constantly changing, these classic trends are “in season” in any season.      

Hafner Florist Toledo Adds Personality to One-of-a-Kind Wedding Flowers

By Abigail Sterling, Published April 11, 2011



Eiffel Tower Centerpieces allow guests to

see and talk to each other across the table.

Hafner Florist has these vases for rental

and will fill them with flowers of your liking.



Wedding consultants at Hafner Florist quite literally strive to “make bridal dreams come true” by becoming familiar with a bride’s unique tastes, interests, and even hobbies!  A bride’s individual interests, from butterflies to French bulldogs, can be incorporated to create matchlessly breathtaking wedding flowers.  Not only does Hafner Florist look to develop personal relationships with brides, but understanding what makes each bride unique is essential in creating a one-of-a-kind look.

           
Hafner Florist Toledo works with any bride’s budget to produce the wedding flowers of her dreams through the most resourceful methods.  In dreaming up the perfect wedding, brides should identify the bridal flower features that are most important to them.  That way, wedding consultants can easily accentuate the right focus for each wedding.  For example, brides often “recycle” ceremony pieces during the reception, which creates a unified look that fits well within a bride’s budget.  Discerning a bride’s wedding flower priorities helps wedding consultants generate unique floral presentations that do not put a strain on the budget.            

           
A bride’s unique wedding tastes can be seamlessly molded into modern, vintage, or traditional styles, depending upon her preferences.  For the modern bride, Hafner Florist produces cutting-edge and contemporary styles brought to life through brilliant color and refreshing presentation.  Similarly, an airy, whimsical presentation of softer tones for a dreamlike, vintage bridal look can be fashioned with a bride’s specific color and stylistic preferences in mind.  Hafner Florist can even adapt traditional styles to any bride’s wedding flower dreams – a look distinguished by red, white, and pink tones to emphasize the sentiments of love and passion.  Brides who are uncertain about which style suits their liking can view wedding flower photos in bridal magazines and on wedding websites, such as The Knot (www.theknot.com).  Ultimately, getting in touch with her own interests and wedding tastes will help any bride determine the perfect colors and floral trends for her special day.   

Spring Into Hafner Florist for the Most Popular Spring Wedding Flowers

Written by Abigail Sterling, Published April 4, 2011

April showers bring beautiful bridal flowers this spring at Hafner Florist!  The spring bride may select from stunning and bright spring wedding flower trends that create a fresh, cheerful look.  At Hafner Florist, brides have endless options of colorful, exciting accessories and accents that make any spring Toledo wedding fresh and fun.

Peonies bring good luck

Many popular spring flowers create unique springtime wedding flowers.  For instance, Sweet Peas, Tulips, Hydrangeas, and Hyacinths come in various pastel and vibrant colors and can create breathtaking wedding flower combinations.  For brides seeking to quite literally make a statement with their wedding flowers, many spring flowers have associated meanings and emotions.  Red and yellow Tulips powerfully convey a declaration of love, while soft Peonies bear good luck for a happy marriage.  Additional trendy bridal flower colors for this spring include a soft Robin’s egg blue contrasted with a vibrant red and cheerful yellow beside a neutral gray.  Lime green, black, and white create a refreshing, brilliant wedding flower look.  Aqua, green, and blue are also breathtaking tones that fashion a cool, fresh wedding day presentation. 

Year-round popular bridal flower trends, such as classic reds and whites, can be reinvigorated with spring accessories and accents.  Brides need look no further than Hafner Florist for unique wedding flower extras.  For instance, spring brides can accent wedding flowers with fresh grass and vibrant fruits, like lemons, limes, and apples, for a natural and fresh look.  Butterflies and rhinestones of every color can be added to bouquets to add style and individuality.  The wedding designers at Hafner Florist seek out the most creative accessories in order to make each bride’s spring wedding flowers distinctly her own.            

 For additional insight into the secret floral language, visit the Hafner Florist website.