The Bridal Bouquet Book

As a special event florist specializing in exclusive, high-end, wedding design, I own nearly 40 floral and floral design books that I use as reference (for myself and my clients) for my business. In my opinion, out of all the wedding design books I've ever seen, this book is the best bridal bouquet photo book in existance today. It's not a step-by-step, "how to" book so readers won't see any instructions for how to re-create the designs in the book. However, what they will see is a large, hardcover book that showcases a HUGE volume of photos of diversely-styled bouquets designed by many different floral designers (some well known and some up-and-coming) from across the US. The book also contains wedding resources pages and an introduction/foreward from the President of the Association for Wedding Professionals International.While many of the most recently published design books contain styles by only one or two designers, and often many of the pages in those books contain a great deal of filler text and filler photos (with only 1 bouquet photo per 1-2 pages, for example), this book contains multiple bouquet photos on the majority of pages. Overall (and I counted) throughout the book's 176 pages, there are 351 large and small photos of bouquets and 71 photos of bouts, corsages, hair flowers, etc. (that doesn't even include the 9 photos on the back and front cover). To see a sample of a few actual pages from the book, look at "See all customer images" in Amazon's photo gallery for this book listing.The bouquet styles, colors, and floral combinations pictured are current and not outdated like in many other wedding books that are still on bookstore shelves, and the majority of bouquets shown are in the highly popular "hand-tied" style. No price references are given in the book, but as a professional florist I can tell that a wide range of price points are represented. That's helpful so brides can see examples of beautiful bouquets in a variety of price ranges, including those that best fit their budget. Since purchasing the book, every client I've shown the book to has bookmarked an average of 7-15 bouquets they absolutely love, and the majority have selected a photo from this book for either their exact bouquet(s) or as a starting point for designing their bouquet(s). I cannot say enough good things about this book and how truly helpful it has been for my clients.One of the handiest features of the book is that it is organized by bouquet colors and feeling (such as Traditional, Fresh, Vibrant, Stately, Feminine, etc), and that has been extremely helpful as well as a time saver for my wedding/bridal clients. Although the book's cover photo isn't the most eye-catching (and does the book a huge injustice as many people do truly judge a book by it's cover) and the book's publisher isn't one of the powerhouse publishers that gets a lot of promotion or hype in the big bridal magazines, don't let either of those things fool you about what's inside of this book. There are more bouquet photos in this book than any other I've ever seen, the photography is nice, and the book's paper is weighty, high quality, and durable so it makes a great reference book. I highly recommend this to both brides and fellow florists who are looking for a a wide variety of bouquet colors and styles in one, comprehensive photo reference book.

Beautiful book with beautiful photos and ideas for Wedding bouquets. Great for wedding planners, florists, brides to be!! Lots of great styles and look!!

Great book, a most to have for a floral designer. and for a bride to be , also another good one is , Bridal Flowers, by the same author.

A really great book to get ideas for your bridal bouquet. I looked for something like this for my own wedding, but the only books available showed a couple dozen different bouquets or were how-to's (NOT for me!). This book shows hundreds and hundreds of different bouquets. You will absolutely find the bouquet style you want in this book. Dividing it by color was the best choice since that is how brides choose flowers - at least I did. I bought it to help my sister choose her bouquet and that of her attendants, but now the hard part is choosing from so many really beautiful pictures. Really fun to see this many bouquets in one book.

Just bought this book because of the previous reviews. What a mistake. I've been doing highend weddings for 15 years and this stuff is sloppy and tacky. Lot's of photos but I think I counted 5 that I wouldn't be ashamed of.