I handled the decorating and flowers for my daughter’s wedding. Jotting down just a few notes on resource and how-to books for anyone who wants to tackle this important task.

Two of the most helpful books for creating wedding flower arrangements I would like to recommend ( and I researched numerous ones -along with all the Bridal magazines) are Malcolm Hilliers “Book of Fresh Flowers“, and Wedding Flowers Made Simpleby Steven Roberts. These two books were especially elegant, artfully illustrated, and replete with all the basic instructions an amateur like me needed. I had worked with silk and dried, but had not worked with trying to make a professional result in fresh floral arrangements. These books gave me confidence, they gave me ideas, and they gave me lots of pictures!

If you are more interested in fresh floral design for many occasions, I would choose the Hillier book, Book of Fresh Flowers: A Complete Guide to Selecting and Arranging. It was the most complete, but anyone could do the flowers for a wedding with the wedding flower book by Steven Roberts. I benefited from both books in planning, ordering flowers, and preparing the table arrangements, two large entry arrangements, boutonnieres, and all the bridesmaids bouquets.

Here is a picture of the wedding party: