Which birthday floral arrangement should you choose for your best friend's big day? If you're not sure how to select an amazing arrangement for someone special in your life, take a look at some questions to ask right now.
What Is Your Friend's Favorite Type of Flower?
More specifically, does your friend have a favorite flower? Some people prefer the pretty petals of daisies, lilies, or roses, while others like line flowers, such as snapdragons and liatris.
You may already know your friend's favorite, or you may need to ask. If this is a surprise gift (which many birthday presents are), you may need to find out the answer to this question. Ask your friend's spouse, significant other, sibling, parents, or someone else from your social circle if they have any ideas.
After you decide on a flower, you need to select an arrangement style. This could include one color of the favorite flower, a mix of hues, additional flowers, and fillers or greenery.
What Are Your Friend's Favorite Colors?
What should you do if your friend doesn't have a favorite flower, you don't know your friend's perfect petal-filled pick, or you can't figure out which blooms they'll like best? Instead of a specific type of flower, choose an arrangement in a color (or colors) your friend favors.
This strategy doesn't require you to select one color. Instead, play up your friend's number one hue with a palette of similar options. If they prefer pink, talk to the florist about an arrangement of baby/powder pinks, barely-there pale pinks, hot pinks, maroon, and reds. But if your friend is into green, bulk up the bouquet with emerald, moss, sage, and grass hues. The same idea will work for other color collections, including purple, yellows, blues, and more.
Do You Want to Incorporate the Season?
Perhaps your friend doesn't have a favorite flower, and they don't prefer one color over another. Now what? Consider a seasonal bouquet. Ask the florist to select seasonal blooms and greenery or choose fall (warm oranges, yellows, browns, and reds), winter (snowy whites and pale blues), spring (fresh shades of greens), or summer colors (sunny yellows, oranges, and bold pinks, greens, and blues).
Do You Want a Greenery-Heavy Arrangement?
You don't have to fill your friend's birthday arrangement with roses, daisies, lilies, and other blooms. If your friend prefers a subtle, green look, create an understated bouquet with ferns, myrtle, eucalyptus, or ivy. Add fillers, such as baby's breath and Queen Anne's lace, to complement the greenery.
