Red & White Winter Flower Arrangements

Casual

• Casual red and white floral arrangements are perfect for laid back holiday entertaining. For a casual Christmas brunch, center the table with a small crock or galvanized pail filled with white hydrangeas. Highlight the white blooms with branches of red holly berries. A wreath fashioned from red carnations makes your coffee table pop with color when you lay it flat and place a hurricane lamp enclosing a white pillar candle in the center. Outline your windows with garlands crafted from white and red silk roses with pine boughs added for more interest.

Traditional

• Christmas cactus and poinsettias are traditional holiday plants. Both are available in a variety of colors including white and red. Grouping three red or white poinsettia plants on a large crocheted doily on a round marble-topped table in your foyer welcomes guests to a fashionably late holiday dinner. Flanking them with white taper candles in tall gold candle holders adds a touch of romance and elegance. Line up small red Christmas cactus across your mantel and intersperse them with antique silver and gold Christmas ornaments. Center your holiday dining room table with a mixed bouquet of long stemmed red and white roses placed in a crystal vase atop a white lace tablecloth. Roses are a traditional Valentine's Day gift so send your sweetie an arrangement of red and white long stemmed roses with red and white heart shaped balloons.

Special Occasions

• Special occasions that fall around the holidays can get lost in the shuffle but choosing red and white flower arrangements designed specifically for events such as holiday birthdays and anniversaries makes them stand out. Winter wedding anniversary celebrations might feature centerpieces fashioned from the same flowers the bride carried for her wedding. Chances are they included some mixture of red and white blooms. People with January birthdays have garnet birthstones. Use the garnet’s deep wine red as the heart of a floral bouquet enhanced with white baby’s breath and arranged in a wicker basket.

Wedding

• An intimate winter wedding calls for elegant but simple flower arrangements. The bride may choose to carry white ranunculus, a large buttercup shaped flower, wrapped in deep burgundy ribbon that matches her bridesmaid’s dresses. Single stems of red and white roses or bouquets of three white hydrangeas might center the tables. A larger, more lavish celebration might include a cascading bridal bouquet of red and white roses that are also used to decorate the wedding cake.