reception flowers have to be same as bouquets?

gooshbaby

Im having my ceromony outdoors and reception indoors but having a nature theme wedding. My bouqut will be purple with an artichoke in it (diff. i now) and the bridesmaids will be wearing purple dresses so i was thinking of having them carry an assortment of green flowers/foilage. My question is, can i have totally diff. flowers at the reception area as decor? I really love those huge gorgous colorful gerber daisies but i just didnt know if it'd even go with the nature vibe?

danieliza1127

You can have different flowers. 

Nebb

Yes, you can. As long as it all ties in together somehow, go for it.

SwedishChick2011

Sorry, they have to be the same.  Otherwise your marriage will not count.

georgia_bride09

Your idea sounds fine; you could always use daisies with artichokes as centerpieces to pull everything together. Even with the daisies by themselves, it will still look fine. You could also incorporate white daises into your BM bouquets to further incorporate the theme, and use colorful ones on the tables.

kschwedic

You can have totally different flowers if you want.  But I would definitely stay in the same color family so it's not overwhelmingly different. I'm not even having flowers at the reception, but if I were, I would have a few different ones to change it up a little.

opalsky007

It's ok if they're totally different. If you wanted to tie it together somehow, you could have the BMs carry green flowers (green goddess callas, button mums, hydrangea, etc.) and then have more colorful versions of the same flowers at the reception, along with daisies.

missy68

You could also add in some foliage and some of the twigs into your arrangements for your reception if you wanted to bring in the natural element with the gerbera daisies.

Catwoman708

Sure they can be different. To help keep it from seeming haphazard, have something about them that ties them together, either a type of flower, a color, or even the type of greenery. It seems purple and green will be your main colors. You could add a few gerbers to the bouquets as an accent color, or add the type of purple flowers in your bouquets to the bright colored gerbers in the reception flowers. Purple will go great with the bright colored gerbers, like orange, reds, magenta, fushia, gold/yellow, white. Purple just goes with so many other colors too. When I have trouble with flower color combinations not quite matching, often adding a touch of purple somehow makes it all work together nicely. My daughter had darker fall colors for her reception tables, but lighter more pastel versions of those same colors in the WP and altar flowers. So white, ivory pale pink, peach, and lavender in the chruch flowers, became ivory/champagne, deep reds, orange/rust, coral and deep purple in the reception flowers. Purple in various shades was the connecting feature.