Popular Flowers Used for a Pakistani Wedding Decor

Pakistani weddings are lively, colorful and a joyful event. Everyone wants to look beautiful on the wedding day.  The wedding process starts off with people hunting for marriage proposals. While some like to match in the family, others choose a marriage bureau site for the proposal hunting process. After the things are finalized, the fun begins with the start of the wedding shopping and planning. 

Special dresses are prepared to celebrate the wedding decorations. The stage decoration is of utmost importance. The stage is the centre of eyes of everyone where bride and groom sit and amaze each other with their looks. The trend of stage decoration is vivacious in Pakistan, similar to the western culture. However, the way of adorning it is different. The same flowery items are used for decoration.

Most of the floral decorations are valued but lighting, curtains and other items also get popular day by day. The stage decor differentiates for three main wedding functions such as mehndi, baraat and Walima. As the theme is different for each and demand different stage decoration.

Pakistani weddings are held in hotels with a well decorated stage, which is reserved for bride, groom and the guests. For making the stage decorations, you can take assistance of event planners for planning a beautiful wedding decoration. Some of the popular flowers used for decor in a Pakistani wedding are shared below:

Rose

Rose is a woody perennial flowering plant of the Rosa genus in the Rosaceae family. It has more than hundred species and thousands of cultivars. It has a group of plants. Flowers differ in shape and size and are usually showy and large in colors ranging from white through reds and yellows.

Most of the flower species are native to Asia, with a small number native to North America, Europe and Northwestern Africa. The hybrids, cultivars and species are grown widely for their fragrant and beauty. Roses have a significance importance in a lot of societies. Rose plants range in different sizes from miniature roses, compact roses to climbers to reach 7 meters in height. There are different species which can be made into hybrid easily. The hybrids are used for developing a wide range of garden roses.

Tulip 

Tulip is a North African genus of bulbous perennial plants in the lily family. This is a herbaceous herb with more than 75 wild species. The range extends to Peninsula through Greece, North Africa, Turkey to Balkans throughout the Levant, Iran, Ukraine, Siberia, Mongolia and east to the Northwest of China. Tulip is centre of diversity in the Hindu Kush, Pamir and Tien Shan mountains. There are a number of species and hybrid cultivars sown in the gardens or as plants in the pots. Tulips are commonly used for stage decorations in a Pakistani wedding.

Tagetes

Tagetes, known as Gainda in local language is a genus of annual and perennial herbaceous plants in the sunflower family. Described as genus by Linnaeus in 1753, the genus is native to Nepal, South America and North. However, some species are naturalized around the world. T.minuta is a specie that is considered as a noxious invasive plants in a few areas. Tagetes are used for decorating the Mehendi stage functions.