It has been said that no flower can instantly lift the human spirit as the sunflower can. Naturally, this means that a sunflower theme wedding is very popular with today’s bride. Sunflowers are brightly colored, warm and giving, stand tall and proud and are very comfortable with themselves. The sunflower sports vibrant yellow flower petals and a dark flower center. There is absolutely no mistaking a sunflower in a field or bouquet of other flowers and they are universal in that most everyone loves them.
In the botanical world, the sunflower (Helianthus annuus) has a primary meaning which is gifts of radiant warmth. How perfectly perfect for a wedding mantra! Considered happy-go-lucky flowers, sunflowers are often linked to loyalty and longevity – perfect sentiments for a wedding day.
There are many ways that you can incorporate a sunflower wedding theme on your special day. Of course, sunflowers will play a central role in the décor and accessories of your wedding ceremony and reception. Tin sunflowers in yellow could be used to decorate the end of the church pews or the backs of the guest chairs in the reception hall. Yellow sunflower mini hand tied bouquets could be used as wedding favors or used to decorate your tables in colorful style.
Fresh sunflowers in tall glass cylinders or slender vases would make spectacular centerpieces for your dinner tables at your reception or around the alter at your wedding ceremony. You may also want to consider adding sunflowers to your bridal bouquet or bridesmaids flowers.
Another way to add vibrancy to a sunflower themed wedding is to incorporate the important colors all around. These colors would include harvest yellow, crimson red, burnt orange, forest green and muted black. As you can see, a sunflower wedding theme goes very well with autumn splendor!
Tulle, streamers, favor ribbons, and customized favor stickers or tags can all be made up with either a sunflower motif or simply using the colors of your wedding theme. Seta Arancio Italian Boxes in Orange or Seta Rosso Italian boxes in passionate red are an excellent way to add a subtle hint of color to your favor table or a nice 
way to offer mints on the tables after dinner. Place card holders for the dinner tables could be silver hearts or white mini vases – and then set these off with colorful place cards that have guests names on them in lovely calligraphy.
For your bridal bouquets, floral centerpieces and wedding favors can all be trimmed off in personalized ribbon in your color choice – of course, red, black, or yellow would work best for a sunflower wedding theme.
White can also be a nice backdrop color for a sunflower wedding theme, and of course the more vibrant colors will leap off the white background. If that is how you choose to do it, consider a Fairy Tale Dreams, Bridal Tapestry or Classic Double Heart white wedding collection of necessities and niceties for your wedding. Each of these collections offer a flower girl basket, ring bearer pillow, toasting champagne flute sets, cake cutting set, fancy pen and guest book and a host of other lovely accoutrements for your very special day. If you are going to use the color white as your launching point, choose just one or two accent colors so that not 
everything comes across as overly busy and fussy. One white, try orange and yellow or red and black. Orange and black is a no-no unless you want a Halloween feel to your wedding. Similarly black and white is too stark for a sunflower wedding theme – where the whole point is warmth, color and radiance.
Don’t be afraid to incorporate your wedding theme in unexpected places… on your table settings and wine glasses, on the food presentation itself and of course, in the colors chosen for your wedding cake and the keepsake cake topper you choose. There are a multitude of ways to pull off a sunflower wedding theme without the colors be too overwhelming or garish and where everyone including the happy couple and all their guests, enjoy the day, and the wedding theme immensely.
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