2) Purchase flowers that are in season at time of your wedding. The prices and choices available may vary across country, but, guide below is general and may apply in most states.

Summer Blooms

Lilies Asters Straw Flowers Stephanotis

Winter Blooms

Holly Poinsettias

Fall Blooms

Sunflowers Orange Blossoms

Spring/Summer Blooms

Calla Lilies Freesia Magnolias Lily of Valley

Annual Blooms

Baby's Breath Gerbera Daisies Daisies Freesia Carnations

Spring Blooms

Lilacs Tulips Violets Irises

3) Use decorations that do not require flowers. With a little bit of creativity and compromising, you can create gorgeous centerpieces that are not floral at all. Candles have made some of best centerpieces I have seen yet. One idea is to place pillar candles in hurricane lamps of varying sizes and place tulle and glitter/confetti around setting. Candles can create a romantic ambience and will cast a warm, peachy glow on smiling faces of your guests!

1. Cut off all dead leaves. With any of Sweet Pitchers (Sarracenia rubra), trim all leaves right down to rhizome. This will help reduce moisture loss. There is no need to do this other species.

2. Give plant a good spraying with a sulfur-based fungicide. (We use Safer brand.) Follow instructions as directed by manufacturer.

3. Place your plant in an unheated shelter, and keep soil moist at all times.

This is perhaps simplest method of protecting your plant from dry freezing Arctic wind. Just remember that it is not frost that destroys outdoor container plants. It is dry freezing wind.

In April, it will be safe to bring your plants out of dormancy, which happes to be about same time black bears come back out and begin foraging.

If you live in zones 6 and above, wind protection is necessary when there is a brief cold snap, bringing temperature down below 20°F. In this case, wind protection is usually temporary and covering your plants with a tarp or sheets of plastic will do trick.