In my wanderings around Pinterest (it was work related, I swear!), I stumbled onto this great image picturing different styles of bouquets.
It came from Dummies.com, if you can believe it, along with these helpful descriptions:
- Cascade or shower: Classic, elaborate shape with ivy and long-stemmed flowers that are wired or pulled out to droop gracefully in a waterfall effect.
- Composite: A flower constructed of hundreds of real petals wired together to look like one enormous flower.
- Nosegays: Round bouquets (16 or 18 inches in diameter) composed of flowers, greenery, and occasionally sprigs of herbs, all wired or tied together.
- Posies: Smaller versions of nosegays. Ribbons and silk flowers are often integrated into them.
- Presentation: The pageant bouquet — long-stemmed flowers cradled in your arms.
- Tossing: A bouquet used for tossing so you can save the actual wedding bouquet for posterity. No need to duplicate the original; the tossing bouquet can be entirely different.
- Tussy mussy: From the Victorian era, a posy in a small metal hand-held vase. Some have attached ring chains for easy carrying.
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