This blush-tone bouquet of peonies accented with tea roses and plumes was created by florist Emily Rose Wood.

This sunny bouquet -- golden peonies, garden roses, honeysuckle, ranunculus, and poppies -- was designed by bride Joanne's friend and florist Naomi deManana.

Casual and cheerful zinnias in a range of vivid pinks form a delightful posy. Gold-edged pink and orange ribbon is knotted around brown taffeta for a festive detail.

A tailored yet poetic bouquet of anemones, with their true-black centers and white sweet peas, is cinched with a wide black-velvet band and narrow dotted ribbon.

Each bridesmaid gets a pink bouquet made from just one kind of flower (clockwise from left): calla lilies, nerine lilies, and 'Valerie' roses.

Glorious with bright blooms, this bride's bouquet has a hint of fluttery movement. The splendid combination of miniature daffodils, crocus, and oncidium orchids feels as cheerful as a summer day. A collection of miniature roses is laced with primula to form an arrangement for a bridesmaid. Golden ribbons complete the sunny ensembles.

Flowers fade, but fabric lasts a lifetime. Use millinery blossoms to create a stunning keepsake to carry down the aisle.

As innocent as a white bouquet, these plump grape-hyacinth and delicate lavender florets are dressed with a mauve silk handle; a pin adorned with a lavender glass bead secures the ribbon on top.

This bridal bouquet overflows with blooms, including dahlias, tulips, ranunculus, maiden-hair fern, nerines, scabiosa, and viburnum foliage.

Peonies, anemones, ranunculus, and sprigs of stylized lily grass make up this bouquet.

Exotic parrot tulips combine with fringed and viridflora tulips and double-petaled narcissus in a poetic bouquet, tied with a hand-dyed silk ribbon in complementary pastel shades. To keep the large array from flopping, stems were cut short. Since tulips are a thirsty flower, the bouquet should be kept in water until right before the ceremony.

The bride's bouquet is composed of giant, lush peonies and ruffly sweet peas in various shades of pink, and is tied with an ivory satin ribbon.

Yellow roses are somewhat unexpected, but no less gorgeous. Although these garden cabbage roses, miniature spray roses, and hybrid roses form a classic dome, each variety is placed in clusters to better display its individual style and shade.

Creamy Cymbidium 'Lionello' spill out of a bridal bouquet accented by frothy astilbe and buds of society garlic, and finished with white-silk satin ribbon.

The secret to this bountiful bouquet's endless appeal: There's not a flower in the gathering that's truly monochromatic. Deep-purple anemones with saturated centers, tightly layered blush garden roses and ranunculus, speckled hellebores, mottled begonia leaves, and ruffly sweet peas in pink, lavender, and tangerine, cinched with a shimmery ribbon, give the eyes plenty to feast on. Similar 75mm organdy ribbon, Mokuba New York.

A combination of flowers large (peonies and ranunculus), medium (sweet peas), and petite (jasmine and 'Hally Jolivette' cherry blossoms) gives this bouquet dimension. Silk organza "Ennise" dress, Rivini.

In this asymmetrical bouquet, barely yellow double narcissus mingle among classic white narcissus with yellow cups and tubular freesias that have golden throats. Adding to the appeal, the freesias smell lightly sweet, while the narcissus have a heady fragrance. Wide and narrow-striped grosgrain ribbons with a pinned-on vintage button tie the tailored mix.

The arched contour of this arrangement is achieved by wiring both flowers and berries. Jewel-tone viburnum berries accentuate the fluttery lightness of the purple hybrid delphiniums and mirror their dark centers. Slender brodiaea blooms hang upside down at the edges of the bouquet. A vintage green satin ribbon covers the handle and is tied with a two-tone bow.

Dinner-plate dahlias, roses, zinnias, geraniums, and ornamental oregano made for a summery bouquet.

The bride, a floral designer by trade, composed her bouquet of plush 'Pieter B' and 'Evelyn' garden roses, bunny tails, and pink-edged variegated dogwood. Vintage jaquard ribbon adds a final flourish.

This elegant bouquet abounds with freesia, anemones, lilies of the valley, peonies, ranunculus, tulips, and verdant hosta leaves.

This bouquet by Floracopia at Soolip, matches the pink sash on the bride's gown, thanks to blush roses, lisianthus, and star-of-Bethlehem.

Hot-pink peonies, purple anemones, dusty miller, and a few feathers, as well as vintage metallic and fabric leaves, make up this bridal bouquet, by Sharla Flock Designs.

How to contain this voluptuous clutch of riotous red roses and ranunculus? Forgo the expected swath of smooth satin, and gather them together in a crisp, box-pleated ribbon instead. The details: Mokuba New York ribbon #4640, color 16, 212-869-8900. Vera Wang gown.

Long-stemmed tulips and calla lilies in shades of orange and tangerine need no more than a satin ribbon to bind them together.

Easter lilies tucked one inside the other make a surprising tiered silhouette, as if you've invented an entirely new species of flower. Like decadent floral drapery, this cascading bouquet of white lilies, clematis, campanula, and stephanotis vines falls and flows with the same graceful lines as the train of your gown.

This bridal bouquet is overflowing with fragrance and texture. Ruffly sweet peas and tumbling lilacs, ranging from deep purple to almost pink, suggest romance. Tucked in between are more sweet peas in creamy whites, plus lamb's ear, oregano blossoms, and lisianthus. Two-tone ribbon binds the stems.

A bundle of jasmine, zinnias, sedum, and ranunculus looks fresh and wild, as though each blossom was hand-picked from your grandmother's garden. Consider adding an heirloom -- here, an ivory beetle pin.

If these pretty petals appear too good to be true, take a closer look. Mother Nature provided the chrysanthemums, carnations, button mums, English daisies, and dusty miller. We added the faux finish by spritzing some blooms with gold and silver floral paint, and dipping others into metallic glitter.

The bride's bouquet was a hand-tied mix of friendly flowers -- carnations, Marguerite daisies, daffodils, chamomile, variegated tulips, and alchemilla (lady's mantle). The bouquet was bound with red-and-beige-striped grosgrain ribbon.

This lush bouquet is made of pink cabbage roses gathered at their fullest from Martha's East Hampton garden.

A bouquet is particularly meaningful when it is the "something blue" a bride traditionally carries. Few blooms are truly blue, but the traditional hue turns up here in the flowers' names: 'Nikko Blue' hydrangea and blue lace flower mix with scabiosa and nigella.

The bride's bouquet of dahlias and astibe, tied with a satiny ribbon, looks just picked.

An exuberant cluster of nigella, anemones, and muscari, with porcelain berries and dusty miller, is a celebration of blue, from the palest sky to the deepest twilight. A wide iridescent Caribbean-blue ribbon at the handle catches every note.

Striped 'Abracadabra' and 'Hocus Pocus' roses make an arresting foundation for a bouquet. Their yellow and aubergine shades are mirrored by an assortment of butter-hued roses, bright yellow marigolds, deep burgundy ranunculus, and orange-colored rose hips. A vintage ribbon in a sparkling golden-yellow hue completes the arrangement.

As lovely as the wedding day it celebrates, this delicate clutch of hellebores, allium, sweet peas, and ranunculus is surrounded by an exquisite cuff made of vintage silk feathers. Two satin ribbons in different widths add further refinement.

Cymbidium orchids, 'Catherine' roses, mini calla lilies, and berries make up the bouquets; the bride's also includes peonies, pink lisianthus, tuberose, and amaranth.

This bride's bouquet is a collection of ivory ranunculus, parrot tulips, and anemones, with accents of lamb's ears, blooming cotton sprigs, and tiny tallow-berry branches.

This bride's all-white bouquet of peonies and late-season garden roses.

This bouquet seems as if it has arrived fresh from a country garden, yet it has an air of sophistication. Bright yellow ranunculus, gold roses, perfumed freesia, ilex berries, and clementines form the warm foundation, while dusty-miller leaves, blue-gray succulents, and leucadendron buds add contrast and texture. Stems are wrapped in wide golden tapestry ribbon plus satin ribbons in pewter and gold.

Even the most delicate branches exhibit an inherent strength hard to find in flowers. Whether you're looking for limbs dainty enough to form the backbone of a bouquet, or boughs robust enough to stand artfully alone, there's a branch to fit your needs and match your mood.

Japanese maple twigs (keep in mind -- the leaves are more orange in fall) frame a painterly bouquet of gold tree peonies, yellow kangaroo paws, pink ranunculus, and ivory astilbe that refuses to be an autumnal cliche. Tied with a floppy ribbon, the bouquet is pure "bohemian luxury," says Robbins.

A cluster of dahlias, white delphiniums, eucharis lilies, white orchids, and snowberry branches, tied with satin and lace, has an ethereal look. Bouquet, Saipua. 50mm embroidery lace (#62030); 80mm double-faced satin ribbon (#1100), Mokuba New York.

A bridal bouquet of roses, peonies, wheat, astilbe, button mums, Deutzia rosea, passion vine, oak leaf, hydrangea, and yarrow is dominated by creamy white with pale-yellow accents and shot through with gold. The stems are wrapped in woven ribbon with a subtle honeycomb pattern. 55 millimeter waxed braid.

Darcy's bouquet is lily-of-the-valley laced with sprays of crystal rhinestones and cuffed with gardenias.

This sophisticated but breezy bouquet, by Garden on the Square, contains 'Polo' roses, lilacs, scabiosa, sweetpeas, jasmine vine, ornithogalum, snowberries, button ferns (painted gold), and ring-necked pheasant plumage.

Preview the expansive lines of your centerpieces by carrying a cascade of tree peonies, roses, gloriosa lilies, and vines down the aisle. Its sweeping tail recalls, appropriately enough, the train of a wedding gown. After the ceremony, give the bouquet another life by displaying it prominently on a sweetheart table or next to a guest book. The Details: William Yeoward Crystal "Naomi" tazza. Mokuba ribbon #30000, color 15.

Bouquets inspired by the tuxedo's colors are elegant and surprising. An armful of white flowers, including Majolica spray roses, lily of the valley, Ranunculus, freesia, Lisianthus, and sweet peas, is bound with a black-and-white sash tied in a grand bow.

Event designer (and Martha Stewart Weddings contributor) Matthew Robbins chose ranunculus, calla lilies, hypericum, and wild grasses in harvest hues to complete the bride's bouquet.

Antique roses call to mind time-honored traditions and meticulous care, two things bound to play a role in your life together. Here, 'Sally Holmes' roses and peach English roses sit among oak-leaf hydrangea foliage and the cascading blooms of pieris. It's Old World, not old-fashioned.