We've been meaning to get our 2008 floral trends post up, but the folks at Teleflora's flower blog beat us to the punch.

First up is Bloomery pal and fellow Pennsylvania florist Tim Farrell discussing monoculture weddings.  Monoculture is the use of a single flower, such as a rose or lily, throughout the entire wedding.  It's a very simple, clean and elegant look to your wedding flowers.  The real style of a monoculture wedding is using different containers and designs, since this is how you get different textures and shapes.  A variety of textures breaks up the room, and provides interesting angles to engage the eyes.

Another trend we've seen is using a single color--known as monocolor--throughout all of your wedding flowers.  One of our recent monocolor weddings was beautiful soft pink, and we made an all lavender bouquet for a wedding show last year.

Unlike a lot of trends, you can combine these two and still have a very chic look to your wedding.  Imagine a wedding of all white lilies, or deep burgundy roses.  Beautiful!  Just a little food for thought as the 2008 wedding planning season kicks into full gear.