Complement Your Natural Beauty Through Wedding Flowers

Choosing the wedding flowers is a big decision for the bride and not an easy one. From the bouquet to the reception tables, flowers play a huge part in making your wedding day look beautiful. Flowers were first used in wedding’s to symbolize love, life, fertility, and purity of the bride and groom. The groom usually wears a flower that is in the bride’s bouquet to indicate his never-ending love for the bride. Bouquets most often have herbs and flowers in them. Sometimes dill is also present to help promote desire. Flowers are the perfect way to add your personal touch to your wedding day.

One of the first things you should consider when looking at wedding flowers, is color and greenery. The bridal bouquet should match the wedding dress and other decorations that are being used. You can use ribbon, beads, and other decorative items to help with the color.

Some brides choose wedding flowers to use because of their meaning. Here is a list of the flowers that are used the most in weddings today and what they stand for:

-Roses: red and white roses are both used in weddings, red roses symbolize pure love and white roses symbolize innocence.

-Lily’s: the Calla lily stand for beauty and the white lily stands for purity.

-Red tulip: means vowel of love

-White carnation: symbolizes beauty

-Babies breath: signifies a pure heart

-Blue violet: signifies faithfulness

-Ivy: stands for love and fidelity

Flowers play a significant role in any wedding. They can reflect many things such as heritage, personality, and the love of the couple. Choosing the right wedding flowers for your special day isn’t easy and takes some consideration. If you need help finding flowers to use go to your local greenhouse and ask a professional to help you out. All the difficult decisions will be worth it when you see how beautiful everything looks on your wedding day.

Lisa Loeb's wedding

Singer and songwriter Lisa Loeb has tied the knot, People reported exclusively. She married her fiance, Roey Hershkovitz, in a Jewish ceremony, taking place at a restaurant in New York City on Saturday night, January 31.

Janet Billig Rich, Lisa's representative, has furthermore confirmed that the bride opted to wear a strapless pink wedding gown by Amsale Blue Label, whereas the groom wore a suit by Paul Smith. There were 275 guests attended the couple's wedding and they were all treated to "a buffet-style dinner of jumbo lump crab cakes and Caesar salad with anchovy beignets prepared by chef Julian Alonzo," People claimed. For the desert, guests were served with a white wedding cake with chocolate mousse, which was made by Pastry chef Martin Howard.

After dinner, Lisa and Roey had jazz band The Blue Vipers of Brooklyn entertaining the guests. They also had DJ Mike C spinning the tunes behind the turn tables.

As for the decor, Lisa and Roey had Sherri Adler & David Sawaryn designing their wedding venue with all-white centerpieces arranged in a variety of copper and glass vases accented with fresh moss and tiny deer figurines. Speaking of the concept, Lisa said she wanted her wedding guests to "come in from the cold to a cozy winter wonderland."

The newlyweds reportedly plan to donate flowers from their wedding to the FlowerPower Foundation run by Nancy Lawlor. The foundation will reassemble the flowers and give them out as inspirational gifts to the elderly and terminally ill.

Lisa Loeb and Roey Hershkovitz, who works as a music supervisor for "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," first met two years ago when she attended a meeting to seek a host for a food show he was developing. They, as claimed by People, got engaged in November 2008.
Lisa Loeb's wedding was full of laughter and tears as the singer-songwriter exchanged vows with Roey Hershkovitz on Saturday in front of 275 guests at Manhattan restaurant Brasserie 8 ½.

In an exclusive interview and photos, Loeb, 40, and Hershkovitz, 30, music supervisor for Late Night with Conan O'Brien share the details of their wedding with PEOPLE.

"We took turns laughing and crying," says the groom of the 30-minute Jewish ceremony. Adds Loeb: "I had to have my makeup redone!"

Wedding planner Amy Shey Jacobs turned the restaurant into a cozy winter wonderland, with all-white florals, tiny porcelain deer figurines and a fireplace logo projected onto the ceiling.

"Roey proposed to me in front of the fireplace at the Maritime Hotel in New York," says Loeb of her engagement last November. "We wanted people to feel they were coming in from the cold to a warm and festive atmosphere."

"It was a perfect night," adds the singer, who planned her wedding in less than two months. "It was great to see everyone so happy, and I'm thrilled with the way it all turned out."