Roses are red?

Roses are red, according to the poem, but if a new design of rose is anything to go by, they can also now be blue, green, purple or all three if you desire, as bride-to-be
Victoria Ashford discovered.

With a cream dress, cream cake, cream table linen and a cream-coloured horse drawn carriage, I had started to grow concerned that my elegant wedding was, in fact, just a bit boring.
While I wanted to retain a classic and sophisticated style I also wanted to avoid the wedding becoming as bland as vanilla ice cream, without the flake.
Unlike many brides I didn’t have a colour scheme or a theme in mind, but I knew that my choice of bouquet would be the focal point from which I would base everything else, such as the colour of the bridesmaids’ dresses and design of our cake.
Sunflowers droop in heat, while lilies are heavy and can stain, and gerberas just aren’t exciting enough but then, after one or maybe seven hours researching on the internet like a typical bridezilla I discovered the answer....
As soon as I saw the rainbow rose, or ‘Happy Rose’ as is it is classed by its Dutch creators River Flowers, I was mesmerised.
After trawling through countless websites trying to decide on a colour scheme it had suddenly become blindingly obvious...why have one colour when you can have them all?
Rainbow roses with their flawless design have a different colour in every petal, offering a vibrant contrast to the typical bridal bouquet.
My indecisiveness, which so often plagued many of the decision making processes in the wedding plans, was no longer getting the better of me and choosing between pinks, mint greens and sky blues could be sorted in a single bud.
Rainbow roses are still new to the market, both in the UK and internationally, but they are rapidly gaining global appreciation and florists are waking up to the fact that more and more birthday girls and Valentines are keen to get their hands on ‘Rainbow Roses.’
Booking them for my wedding, at a price that wouldn’t put my fiancé Kevin and I into bankruptcy, was definitely more of a challenge.
Coates Florist in Market Place, Chippenham, were very helpful and like many florists I spoke to they were willing to order them in for me.
Eventually though I chose to go with Flowers and Wood, a Swindon-based company, who not only knew exactly what I was looking for, but also came out to my house with pictures and ideas and a genuine enthusiasm to make sure they could do all they could for my big day.
A bouquet of the vibrant roses ordered through Flowers and Wood costs £95 for 20 stems or £50 for 10 stems.
With so much going on during the morning of my wedding they have also promised to deliver the flowers to the house – giving me one less thing to worry about.
For more information contact Flowers and Wood on (01793) 344695.

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