The New Bride- A Portrait

• The new bride of today averages in age of about 27.
• She has had some College and or Graduated.
• She holds some sort of Professional Job.
• Highest percentage in decades of Home Ownership prior to marriage.
• Uses the internet for most of her needs for the up coming event.
• Has had the dog longer than the boyfriend.

Love that last one… When i started in this business, the average bride was somewhere around her early 20’s, had not left home, and would have corrected you if you said you had a blog, you must have meant dog.

Times have changed, but really the Bride has not. I learned this lesson many years ago working in a shop in L.A. , it was the early 80’s and these 2 girls came in for prom flowers. I was taken back due to the outfits they had on, totally punk-ed out. Well, i opened the book of corsages for them to look at to get some ideas, and within minutes they had picked out the cutest, pinkest, softest corsages in the book. I looked up at them and recalled, never judge a book by its cover.

The same holds true today, with how the marketing gurus tell us in our industry how brides are tending towards this, or that. They spit out these facts to us at every turn, you could judge the bridal market as such, however, it is still just a girl, wanting the day the way she has dreamed of since she was a wee thing.

This is what i have seen, the Brides today still fall into the categories that did 20-30 years ago, dang i sound old here. The ones who buy the realllly fluffy, full skirted, lots of bells and whistles gown, want romance. The ones who buy the a-line gowns, with some brocades, pearls, etc. want to incorporate romance with contemporary. The final category is the brides that fill in all the other categories, and that darling runs all over the place. We have done weddings for brides dressed in buck skins in meadows of wild flowers to city hall just got out of work for their lunch breaks. To say that today’s bride is a category would be wrong as well. What i am attempting to say is that even though times have changed, the heart of what we do will never change.

Flowers bring emotion and a sense of beauty to the day. They sometimes reflect the style of the bride, but more than that , they touch the pulse of the heart beat of the couple. Flowers project emotion. That’s another blog for another day, but i will say that if you carry yellow roses on your special day, you will forever be reminded when you see a yellow rose of that one special day.

The new bride of today…is the same one that walked the aisle miles ago before her.

She is wanting to have a moment of time, held in a bubble, that will be the starting post for a life of all the joys, loves, and adventures one can only have with someone walking beside them.

enjoy the adventure. you deserve all of them.