When we first discussed this bride's flowers, she told me that the brides- maids would all be wearing black dresses, but that they would wear shoes of various colours ... red, yellow, lilac and blue... and that she would like the posies to be very colourful.
I think I fulfilled the brief !
We didn't have lilac roses, because they diluted the other colours, or blue, because I don't think that you can get them, apart from dyeing them, which I just wouldn't do - it's just not natural! We did have red, fuschia, oranges and yellows, which looked great, and the ribbon on the stems of the hand-tied posies matched their shoes, so there were no arguments !
(The bride wore fuschia shoes).
