Despite the fact that you may possibly all realize what flowers are just as clearly as what a bouquet is, there's more in the types of bouquets than it appears.

All business has its particular thesaurus and the floral world is not an exemption. Sure enough you may already be aware that bouquets of flowers can seem just all so unique. This is precisely the reason why you ought to learn to differentiate the major various types of flower bouquets.

Being aware of how to identify the types of bouquets will significantly help you and your florist in the composition of your wedding flower bouquet or whatever purpose your floral bouquet could have.

The Posy Bouquet

Almost certainly the most common type of flower bouquet, the posy bouquet is a small circular half-spherical bouquet. Frequently the leafage is quite scarce on it and importance is especially set on the flowers.

The Posy bouquet is generally very light weight and comfortable to hold as in a good number of cases (even with fresh flowers) the stalks are cut off and substituted with floral wires in its place.

Common variations of the Posy bouquet would include the Nosegay bouquet type which would give emphasis to heavy leafage, or the Biedermeier bouquet type which designs the half-spherical aspect of the posy bouquet in particular rings each composed of a distinctive type or color of flower.

The Pomander Bouquet

Whereas the Posy bouquet is half spherical, the Pomander itself is a full sphere, and this is why it's also referred to as a flower ball or kissing ball.

Generally, the Pomander bouquet is more or less exclusively composed of flowers without leafage; some variations are seen with a heavy one. Hence the major rule for a Pomander bouquet plainly seems to refer to its spherical form.

Due to this unique shape, this type of bouquet is held by means of a loop that is tied on the ball (the loop is often made of ribbon).

Pomander bouquets are mostly used by wedding attendants such as junior bridesmaids or flower girls.

The Arm Sheaf Bouquet

Contrary to the Posy bouquet kind, the Arm Sheaf bouquet (also known as Presentation bouquet) is not hand-tied, but instead cradled in the bride (or whoever the carrier could be). For this reason, an Arm Sheaf bouquet can set flat without being damaged.

The Arm Sheaf bouquet is by nature rather long and not that wide, as it would make it inconvenient to carry. The favorite variety of flowers for this type of bouquet would support any flower with long stem.

Beautifully arranged Arm Sheaf bouquet can actually be a pleasure to see as they break the symmetry of a conventional bouquet on the carrier giving it all a very strong personality.

The Shower/Cascading Bouquet

Perhaps the ultimate bridal bouquet type, the one every person associates with wedding.

This type of bouquet got its names (shower bouquet, cascading bouquet, teardrop bouquet, etc...) due to its distinctive form.

The Cascading bouquet if typically rounded on top and has a trail at the bottom usually ending in a pointed shape.

Although the shower bouquet can be in most cases single hand held, it is habitually best held with both hands, in particular taking into consideration that the size of some of those bouquets can be huge. Olden times has seen some cascading bouquets almost covering the bride!

The Accessorizing Bouquets

This is not a kind of bouquet by itself, but to be more precise encompasses a group of specialized flower bouquets that are created around items and accessories.

The most prevalent of those flower bouquets are perhaps the Fan bouquet, Muff bouquet, Prayerbook bouquet, and the Basket bouquet.

These flower bouquets are generally clearly interrelated with a specific faith or ethnicity.