Flowers for Your Wedding Day: A Guide to Creating Beautiful Bouquets, Arrangement, & Decorations [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Diana Tonks (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1997

Flowers are the final touch to any wedding, symbolizing romance and adding timeless beauty to the celebration and to keepsake photographs. Flowers for Your Wedding Day provides everything brides, grooms, their families, and attendants need to know about creating memorable floral arrangements, from consulting florists and selecting appropriate seasonal blossoms to constructing bouquets, corsages, and boutonnieres and decorating or making arrangements with flowers. In gorgeous full-color photographs and easy step-by-step instructions, this invaluable guide provides inspiration for a perfectly beautiful wedding day.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Choose a complimentary flower design and orchestrate arrangements for receptions, wedding parties and car decorations using the techniques and step-by-step instructions of this wedding planner. Florist Tonks has the background necessary to reveal the basics of flower arrangement applied to wedding settings. -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Contemporary Books (March 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809230615
• ISBN-13: 978-0809230617
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,161,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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91 of 92 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars What you see is not what you get, December 5, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Flowers for Your Wedding Day: A Guide to Creating Beautiful Bouquets, Arrangement, & Decorations (Paperback)

When I started reading this book, I was really hoping that it would help me shave off some of the exorbitant costs associated with weddings by allowing me to make some of my own flower arrangements. While this is a beautiful book, I can't say that it does what the title says. True, it shows a really nice and easy to make headband wreath, but that was the extent of the knowledge I got from this book. The pictures, at best, give you some ideas about flower arrangements, but some are unclear and often it seems that the scenery and the people in the pictures are the subject, instead the flowers. In a how-to flower guide I would assume that the flowers should take center stage. Overall, I would give it a C+.

75 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what you might expect~, March 21, 2000

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Tauna M. Watson, Designer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flowers for Your Wedding Day: A Guide to Creating Beautiful Bouquets, Arrangement, & Decorations (Paperback)

When I ordered this book I was hoping to find actual floral arrangement diagrams for a wedding, and while the book is nice, and the illustrations are pretty, they weren't very resourceful for someone who is looking to create they own floral arrangements. The content, instructions, etc. just are not there. If you want to look at some pretty pictures to get ideas for decorating, or to take to a seasoned florist, it may be useful, but this is not a how-to book. This book would be better suited to a person who is looking for new ideas, but who already has a background in floral arranging. To say the least I was very dissappointed.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very Little Selection, September 26, 2001

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Patricia D. Milner (Decatur, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Flowers for Your Wedding Day: A Guide to Creating Beautiful Bouquets, Arrangement, & Decorations (Paperback)

I am a florist and I purchase books for my shop that can spark the imagination of prospect brides. This book was outdated with very little selection for today's bride.