Silk Gerber Daisies

Centerpiece Design from TheGardener in the UK

Gerber daisy wedding ideas are bold and beautiful. There are few flowers that can, themselves be the theme of a wedding, but Gerberas can hold their own and provide beautiful bouquets, corsages and centerpieces as well as making wonderful wedding favors, cake decorations and, of course, designs for wedding invitations.

Before you decide on a theme for your wedding, you need to explore what’s possible, what’s easy to do, what’s expensive and what is good value for money. If you’re working to a tight budget you can’t afford to have too many custom made or unique items, but you can still seek out what’s readily available, and put it all together in your own unique way. Do it yourself weddings are far more practical than you may think, and in a year or so, you may well wish you had the money you spent on your big wedding to spend on your home.

Weddings are important, but it is just as important to get good value for your money. Flowers, though necessary and beautiful, are an area where it is very easy to spend a great deal!

Gerberas, those big, sunny, bright colored daisies, are easy to find and not too expensive as wedding flowers go, and there are a number of themes you can create around them.

• Pure white gerberas, with lovely yellow centers make a very pretty bridal bouquet, especially for a young bride.
• If your wedding is the later part of the year, gerberas come in all the gorgeous fall colors
• For Christmas, gerberas come in deep burgundy and brilliant red, both look fabulous with green accents and a touch of gold or silver.
• For spring, pale pink, yellow and cream are perfect
• and bright orange and fuschia daisies scream ‘tropical’ at any time of year,

Red gerber daisy wedding bouquet from innescent design

Why complicate things, why not simply choose ‘gerbera daisies’ as your theme? Your options range from extrovert orange and shocking pink, to demure white, with all variations in between. Gerberas even come in different sizes – choose the large showy daisies for flower arrangements, bouquets and centerpieces, while the smaller flowers are used as cake decorations, in favors and corsages, and of course for your small bridesmaids. Gerberas have relatively large heads, are reasonably priced (both silk and fresh) and available pretty well throughout the year.  They are in many ways, ideal as wedding flowers, except

for one thing; their fleshy stems make them difficult to arrange unless the stems are wired – not something the DIY bride may want to tackle. Fortunately artificial gerberas look very realistic and are much easier to arrange.

Gerbera Daisy Bouquets

One of the easiest and least expensive ways to create a bridal bouquet is to use the small bouquets you find ready made up in craft shops; of course you want something individual, not something ready made, but it is very easy to take apart 2 or even three of these ready made bunches and put them together in your own way, perhaps adding a bouquet jewel, or another flower, or a bouquet collar. Gerberas can be dressed up, into something formal, or dressed down into something bright, fun and wild.

Gerber Daisy Wedding Bouquets Pictures

Here are some gerbera bouquet idea using fresh gerbera daisies which could be replicated using the silk variety. In each case, click on the picture to learn more.

Some readily,available small silk gerbera bouquets which could easily be adapted to create some of those bouquets:

Decorations for the Ceremony

For decorations at the ceremony, use garlands made from silk daisies twisted together – white and white, orange with pink or twist in an ivy garland.

It’s easy to find silk daisy garlands you can use to decorate the church or reception, and to find gerbera invitations, you can get the look of expensive embossing by making your own. Buy a rubber stamp – perhaps a single gerbera or a bunch, and stamp onto good quality paper using a gold or silver embossing ink. Immeditaly use an embossing tool to heat the ink so it creates raises. Once you’ve created the inside of your invitation, you can simply print the inside using your computer printer, put them together and send. Be sure to check the spelling. More than one poor bride has found turned out to be bridle, rather than bridal or her special day.

Gerbera Daisies for Your Cake

Of course you can add fresh or silk flowers to a cake, but how about something a little different? Here’s a cake design from Diane’s Cakes, showing how you can take a simple cake and add Diane’s special cake decorations to have it match the daisy theme.

Gerbera Daisy Wedding Favors

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Gerbera Daisies at the Reception

It’s easy to get hold of wedding favor boxes with a daisy theme, and why not extend the theme to your attendants and give them gerbera themed gifts?

Do you have any other favorite items for a daisy theme? If so, please add them as comments.

Not sure about using gerber daisies as your wedding theme?  Take a look at Calla Lily Wedding bouquets or, if you prefer artificial flowers, how about silk hydrangeas?