Daisy Theme Weddings
There's reason behind the old saying, "fresh as a daisy."
Because when brides of all ages want to express the youthful side of love, nothing beats the daisy in all its guises: from the traditional Shasta, with its echoes of nostalgia and innocence, to the practically-punk Gerber and its contemporary colors.
Demure Shasta Style
No other flower says "young love" like the Shasta daisy, with its cheery face and paper-white petals. Dear to blushing brides everywhere, the Shasta begs for sayings like, "he loves me, he loves me not — he loves me ... we tied the knot!"
Silhouettes and textures that suit the shasta to a 'tee': eyelet and cotton fabrics. And gowns with a retro-style bell skirt and slender waist, or chic tea-lengths, worn with a flyaway veil.
Reedy, youthful brides look gorgeous in a simple A-line or column style — especially against vibrant greens of a garden or park.
The Shasta also plays well with white organza bows and delicate pastels like lavender, mint green, or baby-chick yellow. They look lovely paired with pastel roses, and in hand-tied bouquets dressed up with pink or yellow satin wraps.
They're a bit fragile, though, so resort to silks for anything like a pomander ball, anything without a water source, or anything your flower girl might carry around.
Gerber Daisy Drama
Gerbers are the Vivienne Westwoods of the flower world. The brides who love them also love design, and modern shocks of color. One popular palette for Gerber-lovers is bright pink and orange. Another is pink and green. For Autumn brides, fiery combinations of yellow, orange and red set the scene.
But brides are also designing around Gerbers' purples, peaches and sultry magentas. And let's not forget that Gerbers really pop against dark brown and black (both super-popular shades for bridesmaids' attire. Coincidence?)
All Dolled Up With Daisies
Here are some adorable things we've seen done with daisies:
Wheatgrass Trays
That rich explosion of green makes daisies look fabulous, whether they're white or fuchsia. Take note: the fragile stems need to be wired!
Floating Heads
Single Shasta flower heads floating in votives or shot glasses: adorable. Larger Gerber heads can sometimes fill a whole fishbowl: finish the look with a bright satin ribbon. Or toss these blooms en masse in fountains or pools.
Flashy Splashes
The brightest gerbers call for dramatic echoes elsewhere in your event. Dress your bridesmaids in bright dupioni sashes (salmon or tangerine, say). Swag the ceilings with shiny fabrics to match. Wrap each cake layer in bold, patterned ribbons. Rustle up tangerine parasols and saturated linens and chair covers. Serve a menu of signature drinks in each of your Gerber colors!
Ribbons on Ribbons
Pick a bright palette to match your favorite Gerber daisies, then wrap your vases and votive holders in several layers of ribbon of different widths. For example, layer a bright orange inch-wide satin ribbon over a corrugated two-inch-wide fuchsia ribbon.
Fruit and Flowers
Choose Gerbers of a citrusy hue, then fill your centerpiece containers with sliced lemons, limes or oranges in bright, coordinating colors.
Back to Basics
Just because you love all-white doesn't mean you have to pass on Gerbers: they come in bridal white, too. And with their oversized heads, they've got all the charm of Shastas, plus a fresh and modern spin.
Rustic Roots
Gerbers and Shastas alike can add rustic punch to any affair. Just combine them with a little raffia or twine, birds' nest bouquet collars, galvanized pails, or gingham and mason jars.
hello I’m getting married april, 18, 2009 in a church. My theme is centered around bright gerbera daisy’s. I was just wondering if anyone had any idea’s or pictures on how to decorate a church in this theme. My bridesmaids and groomsmen will be in yellow.
hey tiffany,
im getting married next June 13 and my flowers are going to be gerber daisies too. If you want to email me at sjr1980@gmail.com I will send you some things that might help you.
I am getting married in April 2009. I am having gerber daisies pink, yellow, and orange. I want to have the bridesmaids wearing pink dresses with a little orange on them. I can not find a dress pink with orange on it. I do not fushia. Anyone seen any pink dresses with any orange on them?
Lori,
Check out dessy.com you can try different combinations of dress colors. Plus it gives you locations of stores on where to find these dresses. Hope this helps.
Thanks for giving my the website for the bridesmaids dresses.
I have another question thing I would like to know. Are gerber daisies blooming around the beginning of May. My wedding day is May 2 of 2009, I didn’t know for sure when these types of daisies bloomed
thanks
Ok so I’m planning my wedding in May of 09 and our color theme is navy/marine blue and silver-with a star theme as well-night under the stars. Our wedding is inside a country church. We are looking at daisies but we don’t know what colors to go with. I’m not sold on the wild daisy. I like the geber daisies with a bright statement can I work with that? Can you help find the perfect color of daisies that go with marine blue bm dresses?
Thanks
We will be using these on 8-8-08 and will be selling them the next day. We will have 6 flower balls that have over 40 gerbers daisys and a flower girl ball and some type of centerpiece with more gerbers as well. We got these flowers at Hobby Lobby here in Michigan. I will post pictures when the wedding takes place, it’s outside at a Country Club.
Does anyone know of a good website I can use to buy artificial Shasta Daisies? I want a country wedding because I live on a ranch and Shasta Daisies are my favorite flowers, but I am having a hard time finding fake flowers that look fairly real. Help!
My wedding is June 13, 2009. My BM are wearing champagne colored dresses and I am using gerber daisies. I was wondering if anyone has any pics or ideas you can tell me about how to do arrangements for my ceremony. I only really want to use gerber daisies and some greenry. If anyone has any pics I would appreciate it so much
We had a Gerber Daisy theme, using red, yellow, orange, lime green, and pink. Each bridesmaid carried a different colored bouquet, and the groomsmen matched the bridesmaid they walked with. My bouquet had all 5 colors, plus white… It really turned out beautiful!!
Please Help. I have spent hours on the internet searching for Gerber Daisy invitations with not much luck. Most invitations that I have found are white and I am looking for a lot of color such as orange, yellow, bright pink. Any suggestions?
Check out blossom accents…. gerbera daisy invitations.
Where did the person get the pink and orange ribbon for tables? I am doing a pink and orange wedding in April 2009 and need some ideas.
Hi Catie,
You could always just take the petals off of daisies for the tossing. Or you could buy the silk daisies and cut them off for the tossing.
OR you could check out Balloons Galore, which has daisy “shaped” silk petals. which effectivly are little silk daisies in almost any color you could want. Check it out.
i am looking for gerbara daisy peddles for the flower girl to spaerd in front of the bride
Totally adorable gerber destination wedding! In citrus green, orange and fuchsia (duh), this took place last Halloween in Aruba. I really love those lime green sashes, you don’t see those every day … and the cool, graphic cake just makes the most of those wild flowers! Destination cakes can be a bit uninspired … but this one rocks. Even the gorgeous bride’s e-pics coordinate. Plus, don’t you LOVE that seashell ring pillow? (She made it). You can see the whole wedding here.
HELP!!!!
My wedding is in September and i am looking for a very specific type of Gerber daisy. I want a burgundy daisy where the petals are all the same length. This would be the old type of Gerber daisy, not the newer versions with multiple petal lengths and layers. Does anyone know where i can find some silk flowers like this. Please help I am getting desperate!
I have decided to go through http://www.flowerwholesale.com I am hoping everything works out well. I am very nervous to buy online, but they seem to be a legit company, and they had a wide range of colors in gerbers!!!
Here are a few more centerpiece ideas hope they help!
Connie-
Thanks so much! I have found a few ideas that I liked. I think since bowls are so expensive that I may do the votives with flowers around them with the runner. I also liked the idea of the small vases.
Jasmine-
I saw in an earlier post that you are also wanting to buy your daisies online. Where are you ordering yours? I found http://www.farmstogo.com that I liked because you can choose the colors of the gerberas.
Keep the ideas coming! I love getting the input from others!
Thanks,
Tracy
Hi Tracy, I am also using gerbers in hot pink and orange, and dont have a huge flower budget, for our centerpieces we are using goldfish, despite all of the negative feelings some people have, but they color will be perfect and they are inexpensive. They will look cute in little bowls w/ black rocks and we are going to but 2 flowers in each bowl. I am also posting some pictures of centerpieces I considered, Hope this helps good luck!
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Here are soem great pics from the dariajohnson.net website. She is a photographer, and you should look under “love stories” on her site for the wedding pics. Thanks to Marianne, for the great link! Some of her pics made me cry. There is such a story behind every single one, and I don’t even know these people!:?
Hi Tracy,
Gerbera’s are so big, you don’t really need that many to create a centerpiece, which is good for the budget too. Why don’t you just keep it simple with a couple (1-2) daisies in a bud vase or smallish vase, with two or three small votive candles around it? You could tie a ribbon of your choice around the vase, and place a coordinating cloth napkin or wide ribbon runner under the arrangement in the center of the table. You could also take two or three daisies in different colors and fill up a medim sized mason jar and stick them in. This would look cute and country chic for an outdoor garden wedding like the I’m doing for my sister. If you do decide to have the floating gerberas in a glass bowl, it would only take one or to to fill each as they are large. You could also fill the bottom of the bowl with colored pebbles, or marbles.
A cute idea that I’ve been seeing a lot latley is simply doing a single flower in a vase (it could even be a simple glass dollar store vase) and place a black and white photo of you two together on each table. Every table has a different photo. I’m sure you probably have plenty of photo’s that you could chose from that you have taken in the time that you have been engaged. Each one could represent a different occasion together, or special time, or even a funny moment. You could display these mounted onto cardstock paper, and placed in a little plastic easle. You can get the easles at the dollar store or from a dollar up at most craft stores. You would only need a little one for each photo. You can upload your digital photos to Costco.com or a similar site. But I know for a fact that at Costco, you can change the colors of the photos and size, type etc. Each photo from Costco with the changes made to it is usually around a dollar or under. And you can get them mailed to you too! The photos could be either 4×6 size, or 5×7 size. Everyone loves looking at photos. They tell a story. And whether or not the people at your recpetion are close family, or guests of friends invited, they will enjoy going around to all the tables looking that “the Story” that the two of you have made together thus far. Afterwards you could collect the story pictures again, and place them in a special scrapbook with pictures from your wedding.
Try to think of somthing that would make the decor or centerpieces personal to each of you. Somthing that reflects who you are as a couple. What types of things are you into? Having personal touches is really what the guests will remember about your wedding day. If they don’t remember anything else, they at least should come away with a happy and relaxed feeling, in enjoying your day with you, and celebrating your new life together.
Hello-
This has been the best web site I have found with ideas for weddings with gerbera daisies! I am getting married October 11th and we are coming back the next weekend and having a reception/party. I am using the fall colors gerberas and am not wanting to spend a lot of money on decorations and centerpieces. I have found an online site that I think I am going to get my flowers at but my problem now is finding a pretty, inexpensive way to decorate my tables and centerpieces. I was thinking floating berberas but then I was afraid that wouldn’t be enough…and bowls are pricy. Then I thought I might use candles with gerberas but…PLEASE HELP! Anyone that has pics of anything they could show or help me out would be greatly appreciated! I have gone crazy looking online for ideas with pics. Thanks in advance for all your help.
Tracy
more pics….. I have a TON more, if anyone would like to see…
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Beautiful Bouquet I found. I love the glittery butterflies!
I had a friend who got married in 2005, and had lilac dresses for her girls, but all the flowers were in hot pink, yellow, orange, and white. It was a pretty interesting combination. She made huge arrangements for the church that were giant foam hearts covered in gerber daisies of all these colors, and the bouquets matched. The reception arrangements were the same colored daisies with lemon slices in the bottoms of clear glass cylinder vases, and the cake was covered in a cascading waterfall of all the same. It was an upbeat, fun, and bright theme. Unfortunately on a very cloudy day. But it still worked. I have to say though the giant gerber daisy covered hearts at the church were a bit over the top. I know the look that she was going for, but it turned out looking a little cheap, as all the flowers except the bridal bouquet and the centerpieces, were artificial flowers. It would have worked if she had added a little bit more greenery to each of the arrangements though. I am an artificial flower arranger myself, and I always pick the types of flowers that look real. These daisies could look real as well, if they were placed in such a way as to make them look more natural, (as in more greenery in the case of my friend.) I hope this help someone with their ideas!
I am thinking about having orange dresses with orange and pink gerber daisies. Has anyone seen this/ what do you think?
Jasmine:
My sister-in-law bought all her flowers online. They arrived 3 days early and by the time the wedding came, most of the flowers were almost dead. We ended up buying flowers from Trader Joes and made the flower arrangements again. Every experience is different though. Check with the flower company on their policies. If it’s from Proflowers or a company similar, you will probably have a better experience.
Anyone every ordered fresh flowers online, or is going to. It scares me alot, I am afraid that when i got to a wholsale florist they wont have what I need and Iwill be out of luck!
Thanks Blake!
Although I previously thought yellow was too garish I’m really warming to it! I love the pics. Also the green. Sometimes I think blue can look a little too cool but I’ll definately think about it. I get what you mean about the gold and I certainly wouldn’t dream of a tacky gold look, however, the yellow is a definate contender! The flowers look really lovely – you’ve been a great help – Thanks!