Thursday, February 13, 2025
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Cascading bouquets and pocket boutonnieres on trend for 2025
By LAURA RUBY
The Northern Virginia Daily
While one 2025 trend in wedding flowers is a nod to the past, another is a fresh new take on boutonnieres. Cascading bridal bouquets and pocket boutonnieres are among the top trends in wedding flowers for this year, according to Katie Bonnet, owner of Fussell Florist on 2nd Street in Front Royal. “Cascading bouquets were really popular in the 70s and 80s,” said Bonnet, adding that unlike a typical, gathered bouquet, cascading bouquets have trailing flowers that create a waterfall effect. The trend has grown in popularity over the last two years, she said.
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The pocket boutonniere offers a more elaborate, put together look for grooms and groomsmen.
“We’ve noticed that brides have been asking a lot for those. Maybe not as boutonnieres can cause pin pricks and Courtesy Photo much trailing — maybe just some greens get out of place if not well secured. Popular in the 1970s and 80s, cascading bouquets trailing or just a wisp trailing. It feels to “They’re bigger and more elaborate. It’s are once again a favorite for many brides. us like it’s sort of a nod to their mothers like a miniature bouquet in his pocket.” or grandmothers who had that style. They Bonnet suggested flowers for each aisle request to have a little cascade is really Bonnet said that if couples prefer the to bring color and life to the ceremony common,” Bonnet noted. classic boutonniere look, they might — noting that those arrangements can consider asking their florist to use And for men, the pocket boutonniere magnets so that the boutonniere can be do double duty, serving as table top arrangements for the reception. — sometimes called the pocket square attached without pins. boutonniere — offers a fuller, more Bonnet said that flower budgets for elaborate arrangement for grooms and Bonnet, who purchased Fussell Florist weddings vary wildly, noting that flowers groomsmen. Attached to a card, it slips in 2021, also advised couples to invest are often more expensive than people into the breast pocket of a suit and their wedding flower money on the altar expect since they are delicate and doesn’t require pinning like traditional arrangements. perishable. boutonnieres, Bonnet explained. “When you focus on the altar, it’s really “It looks like a little garden growing good for photos. It makes for a beautiful When working with couples, Bonnet likes to provide a breakdown of flower costs so out of the pocket. It’s cute because you ceremony and you’ve created a really can make it ahead of time and just slip unique landscape for your photographer,” that they can decide where they’d like to spend their money, and make cuts to save. it in,” she said, noting that pinned-on she said.