To Have & to Hold: Magical Wedding Bouquets

by Avi Adler, David Stark, David Stark

One of the most anticipated experiences in every bride-to-be's wedding planning is choosing her bouquet. However, when faced with the real-life sea of styles and flowers, a bride-to-be may soon become overwhelmed. To Have & To Hold offers more than 150 unique bouquets, pictured in 200 luminous photographs, that incorporate scores of seasonal flowers both familiar and exotic, as well as flowering branches, pinecones, leaves, feathers, family lace--even...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579652786
• ISBN13: 9781579652784
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Artisan Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

The most inspiring wedding flower book

When looking for something fresh and new for my wedding flowers, I sifted through dozens of books that showed the same old arrangements and nothing new or creative. I own another of Stark and Adler's books, and was pleased to see they had written a wedding flower book. I was over the moon after ordering the book. The designs are simply beautiful! The flower choices are artistic, simple and help a bride to choose the right flowers for the growing season in which her wedding takes place. I carried this book to my florist and we recreated several of the arrangements for my bridal bouquets and table arrangements. Everyone was impressed with the floral arrangements and the vibrant color choices. This is the one book you need, if you are looking for a fresh, vibrant and artistic look for your wedding.

beautiful bouquets

I bought this book for my sister who is getting married soon. She loved the book! It has given her great ideas and pictures for her to express to her florist what she wants. Most of the bouquets are unique and the wrappings around the flowers are a wide variety and have great ideas. I would recommend the book.

Excellent

Es una estupenda referencia sobre las ideas que buscan las personas cuando de solicitar ramos para boda se refieren... incluso algunas quinceañeras lo han tomando como referencia para escoger el ramo que llevarán a la iglesia.

A Must Have!

This book is so helpful! Getting engaged can be so overwhelming, especially in the beginning before you've planned anything and your head is swimming with ideas...but I just sat down with my copy of "To Have and To Hold" and my mother...and in just a few hours I had some terrific ideas that will make a one of a kind, beautiful wedding. What a relief!

Modern, beautiful bouquets

I had absolutely no idea what type of flowers I wanted or really what type of flowers were available for bouquets when I started planning my wedding. So I went to the library and checked out a bunch of books on bouquets and wedding flowers. Most of them were terrible. They showed either ugly bouquets from the 1980s or the traditional red rose bouquet. To Have and to Hold was very helpful in providing ideas on not only specific flowers for wedding bouquets, but also different flower combinations and beautiful stem wraps. The book has full page color picture of dozens of bouquets, divided by season. There is a wide variety of colors and styles to satisfy almost anyone. To Have and To Hold also provides interesting twists on bouquets like adding berries, feathers, or holding a small book with a flower as a bookmark. Along with pictures of bouquets it also shows how to incorporate some of the flowers into other parts of the wedding (boutonnieres, flower girls, and cake toppers). The pictures have captions that provide the flower names and sometimes descripitions of flower variations and when the best seasons are for the specific flowers which is really helpful. Being the typical bride, I have looked into what seems like an unending list of different wedding books, and I have found To Have and To Hold to be the most helpful flower book I have found. Great book!!