white flowers?

I'm a florist and your florist is 100% correct in everything she says. The nearest to diamond white in the same shape as roses would probably be carnations which will give you the same effect in a hand-tied as roses in that it can be made compact but it would have a 'ruffled' look due to the texture of the bloom. Tulips are whiter than roses and would make a stunning hand-tied. Because Mother Nature is unpredictable, it's pretty much impossible to get whiter than white flowers because the calyx which the blooms grow from is green and a lot of 'white' flowers have green tinges to them.

You can get artificial white roses which are absolute stark white and very realistic but it's not often I am asked to use them because of the fact that they are so stark, they can be quite harsh looking next to skin (bare arms for example) and delicate materials.

You could try this website for availability by season and colour of the different flowers http://www.flowers.org.uk Hope that helps.

I went to a wedding with a black and silver colour scene and the bride had white gerberas with black in the middle. The flowers were beautiful. Don't think her dress was diamond white though so maybe one of the florists on here could advise.

Flowers were one of my favourite parts to choose because I picture my husband buying me the same flowers on anniversaries, and us having vases of them at our house warming, etc. We didn't have a first dance, so don't really have 'our song', but we can have 'our flowers'

I too went for white flowers, but I had an ivory dress and my wedding was earlier this month.

I really wanted a messy white anemone and gypsophila bouquet but I was told that anemones are a winter flower so they'd either be really expensive to ship, or wouldn't be that good quality if grown here. I ended up going for gyp and lisianthus. As your wedding is in December, perhaps consider white anemones as the centre is a really deep colour which would tie in with your black and white colour scheme. I'm not sure how they'd look against your dress though, but something to think about.

Good luck!

Just had a quick google (I don't know a single thing about flowers so listen to the pro's!) and with you saying you are having white and silver, and you have the pewter overlay on your dress, what about these greyish ball-y things!?!? Ha ha, I think they're really pretty with the white, and very wintery ...

These thingies!?

Thanks everyone. Overtherainbow - thankyou for your comments. Its reassuring to have a professional second opinion! I'm glad she was honest with me and explained it all as I have seen some posts where Brides have not been able to have the flowers that they wanted on the day but were unaware beforehand that there might be an issue.

I will look on that link and also google gerberas and anemones and start pulling together a list of ones I like.

Sillywrong - I really like the second bouquet - does anyone know what flowers they are? I have a feeling they might be peonies which aren't generally available in Winter even though that looks like a winter bouquet?

They are peonies and sadly not readily available in winter Gerberas are though and anenomes! Ranunculus is available in white but sometimes it has creamy/yellowy centres though.

I'm having anemones with those grey ball things
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I'm loving the technical terms going on here - "these thingies" "greyish ball-y things"!!!

I'm making notes so that I can wow my florist with my improved industry knowledge when I go and see her next ?