Would you class black roses as suitable flowers for weddings?

[Punkyfish3000]

Hi all. I have set a date for my wedding (25-09-21) and am starting to piece it together. I have a colour scheme and flowers in mind (white, purple and lilac roses).
Am debating whether to include black roses or not. My hairdo is gonna be styled with lilac rose hair slides and small purple and white rose claw clips; I also have black rose hair slides and was debating adding these to not just my wedding hairdo but also the colour scheme and flowers for the day. I know roses are often associated with weddings but would you consider black a wedding-y rose?

Noooooo

How many have you seen at weddings? You must know they're not wedding flowers?

I think you should have whatever flowers you want at your own wedding. I wouldn't want them because they look artificial but I wouldn't think it was weird f someone had them at their wedding. We all like different things.

I don’t think they’re weddingy but not everything has to be! If they’re ‘you’ then have them! Have a fab day.

You'll look like Morticia.

I wouldn’t choose them. Not just because they’re black but also they might look a bit in-your-face alongside white and lilac. Have you considered getting a bouquet made up to see what that would look like?

Yes I can see this working - if you google black white purple roses some nice examples of goth style bouquets. I’d be tempted to add some AB crystals to make them pop.

I’ve been gardening for a good few years now but never come across black roses?
(Furiously Googles)

Roses don’t come in black.

I imagine they're dyed. Dyed black flowers, especially sprinkled with crystals as suggested above sounds the ultimate in tack.

Roses don’t come in black. You can get roses that have been dyed black - they can be very variable in colour and can leak dye from the stem.

Up to you 100% but I’d love black roses. However it may not be too weddingingly (is that a real word??)

It’s up to you. My florist had some when she dropped my flowers off last week and they looked gorgeous - they were dyed light black, no crystals and mixed with natural roses and they were pretty gorgeous.

White, purple, lilac and black? It sounds garish.

Roses are not natural September flowers
Roses are not naturally black

September flowers are michaelmas daisies, other asters, hebe, Daphne, Dalias, chrysanthemums, rosehips, berries, russet, holds and early autumn things.

I don’t think they belong anywhere to be honest.

You could pop in some queen of the night tulips (if a Spring wedding), or some black hollyhocks, or some black hellebores, which are a type of winter rose?

Your wedding, your flowers OP. I had black wedding stationery and it looked fab.

Although if you didn't want to commit to black roses, perhaps dark, dark purple Cala lilies?

You can def use a touch of black but def not roses. Try to keep the color scheme to three colors. Your decorators and florists will be able to work with shades that go well together.

It doesn't matter if they are or not OP. It's your wedding so have whatever flowers you want!

I've just googled black white and purple bouquet and they can look surprisingly lovely and not at all 'morticia' like.
Go for it.

Great for a steampunk style wedding!

I wouldn't say they are wedding flowers.
In truth, I wouldn't say they are flowers - roses don't grow black.

Ultimately, you can do what you want - I love the fact that nowadays people can have their own 'style' of wedding, and aren't constrained by 'tradition'.
However I guess that if you didn't care what other people think you wouldn't be asking the internet what they thought ?

It's your wedding, so you should have the flowers you want to have.
Who cares what other people think ?

Enjoy !!

I'd only do it if you want a bit of an alternative feel, if everything else is very traditional then I wouldn't do it.