Brown flowers for my wedding?

I would like each of my bridesmaids to hold a single flower for my wedding.My colors are palm beach coral and chocolate.

The groomsmen are going to wear the coral flowers and I would like the bridemaids to have the chocolate color flowers. My bridal consultant said there's a brown rose, but I cannot find it and I heard it's very expensive.



Any advice on where to find reasonable priced brown flowers that will be in season for August?

Brown flowers for my wedding?
This is a site for wholesale flowers, but I didn't see any chocolate brown roses.

http://www.americanfloraldistributors.co...

The Leonidas and Sahara colors are the only ones that I see that are brownish.

I Googled it and found this site that sells chocolate colored roses, but they are $60 for a bouquet.

http://www.rosesandblooms.com/index/en/i...

Good luck. And congratulations on your wedding.
Reply:I work in the wedding industry, and I know of no brown flowers that would work for a wedding. My suggestion to you is to have your bridesmaids hold the same color roses as your groomsmen, but wrap the stem(s) in chocolate ribbon. Also, incorporate a little more color into the bridesmaids' flowers to make them different than the groomsmen, such as green. This will make your wedding colors pop. Green hypericum berries would work great with coral roses and chocolate ribbon.
Reply:Brown and coral are beautiful together. I suggest that you go to a flower shop to get the flowers made. I realize that it may be a little more than buying them but you can shop around. When I got married, my colors were sage green, silver and white. Well there are a lot of shades of sage and every store I went into did not match the sage I was using. So I went into a flower shop with the color sage I was using and I lady matched the color perfectly. Good Luck and Congratulations.
Reply:if you are looking for a true brown i don't think the brown rose is what you want. They are almost like a orange with brown time but actually you could do that since you are doing coral.



You could also do an ivory rose and wrap it will a beautiful brown bow or the coral with a brown ribbon as well



Here is a place you can get brown roses from



not sure on there cost



http://www.wholesale-wedding-flowers.com...
Reply:The rose she speaks of is a black baccara rose and looks chocolate in color. I am using them in my bouquet and they cost no more than other flowers. As my colors are gold and esspresso and my dress is ivory, I am using black baccara roses, orange lillies, ivory mini orchids and brown foliage. I think you need to find a new consultant as she freaked you out for nothing!! Good luck and best wishes!
Reply:Here are some links:



http://www.brides.com/forums/message.jsp...



someone mentioned that "you can get brown sunflowers and chcolate brown gerber daisies at Fiftyflowers.com."



I also found a site called Catherine's Garden that mentions a lot of flowers that are brown: http://www.greenhands.com/greenhands/200...



Good luck!
Reply:Not sure where to find the flowers, but you could try a small arrangement of others? For my formal (a few years ago now!!) I had 2 flowers layered, with a long thin branch kinda thing twining them together, and the leaf was brownish



Sorry it's really hard to explain!! Just trying to say - you could incorporate brown into it without necessarily having brown flowers



Good luck :)
Reply:It's called Terra Nostra- The Brown Rose. Here's a couple links about them w/ images:



http://www.flourishdesigns.com/blog/2007...



http://www.nirpinternational.com/inglese...
Reply:How about instead of brown flowers, an arrangement of dried wheat/hops etc...not really dark brown, but could fit your colour scheme and will be far cheaper and nice and unusual! (Also hops smell really lovely, not like beer I hasten to add!)
Reply:I suggest you reconsider the brown flower idea. No matter what you get, it's going to look like the poor thing is past its prime or that it is dead.



Go with coral, or yellow, or white. Anything but brown.
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Reply:You could buy white carnations, and put them in water that has been died brown. They soak up the water, and turn brown.
Reply:I know there are brown orchids, my friend is having them at her wedding.
Reply:chocolate gerber daisies



or do a white rose and have then glue soem brown glitter to the top of the peddals
Reply:I think for August Really,really hot pink bright roses! lolz or just roses they kidda go =]
Reply:There are some roses and gerbs that come in a close to brown color, more moca crossed with terra cotta though. And the roses are not yet readily available on the cut market, so they would need to be special orderd.

http://www.wholesale-wedding-flowers.com...

http://blog.amystewart.com/2006/07/index...





Brown monkey tails (scroll down page)

http://huckleberrykaren.blogspot.com/200...



Also check out hypericum berries - they can be tinted to a chocolate brown with design master stain (for flowers)

http://www.fiftyflowers.com/product/Hype...



There is also a chocolate colored anthirium (although this is not the best picture of it - it looks too red in this picture)

http://www.tropicalblooms.com.au/images/...



There is also a brownish colored freesia, but I could not find a picture of it for you.



There are also some other flowers that are a deep purple/plum/burgandy color that could almost pass for dark brown, these include, black bacara roses, calla lilies, artichokes, tulips and orchids.



With any of these flowers order well in advance to ensure availability, brown flowers are limited and in high demand.

Hope this helps