Presentation, Pageant, or Arm Sheaf style bouquets get a bad reputation from all over - ballet recitals, pageants, concerts - but they can be seriously stylish when not picked up from the local grocery store! Here are some gorgeous examples...
An arm sheaf from with European flair. Monochromatic colors and the similar form of callas and french tulips keeps this bouquet looking modern. I can't get enough of the flower used as "filler" here - that's a carnation, guys! Seriously!
Calla lilies are a very traditional choice for a simple arm sheaf bouquet. Varying sizes of blooms and stem curves keeps it interesting!
Sticking to one flower in a monotone color palette is a surefire way to avoid looking like you've just been crowned "Princess Kay of the Milky Way". The first uses mini calla lilies, which creates a sweeter, less dramatic feel than the full-size callas; the other three make use of dendrobium orchids' long stems.
These two are more traditional bouquets, but they still avoid pageant-dom by foregoing use of filler flowers and excess foliage.
Using unique flowers and foliage is a great way to break from tradition, and the arm sheaf style bouquet gives you the option to use flowers in a way that wouldn't work in a more compact arrangement. These examples both make use of pink mink protea, green amaranth, monkeytail fern curls, and lily grass, the second adds a stem of burgundy cymbidium orchids and several stems of belles of ireland.
These two dramatic bouquets are possibly my favorite examples of arm sheafs done right! The top one uses just two flowers - dendrobium orchids and lime green antherium.The bottom is a mix of green paphiopedilum (lady slipper) orchids, white dahlias, fluffy grasses, and wildflowers. Totally nontraditional, unfussy, and just plain gorgeous.
See? There are soooo many ways to create an arm sheaf style bouquet without looking like this:
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