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A Guide to Bouquet Themes — From Anniversary Gifts to Winter Gifts

Giving a bouquet a theme makes it easier to choose what to put in it. Flowyric currently has fourteen themes, and each except Free theme comes with requirements to meet. Some themes have just one requirement, while others ask you to meet two together. When you choose a theme, its requirements appear in one line beneath the chip, and before you press Finish, the screen shows whether the arrangement on the stage meets them. This guide selects eight themes with clearly different characters — Anniversary Gift, Celebration, Words of Comfort, all four seasonal themes, and Free theme — and explains how to read their requirements. For the remaining themes, you can check the one-line requirement in the same way. The recommended arrangements used as examples are based on the list shown when the country is set to Korea, so changing the country setting changes the recommendations you see.

Anniversary Gift — Pink and Red, Plus White, Blue, and Purple

Anniversary Gift looks at one thing: flowers in the pink, red, white, blue, and purple groups must make up at least 70% of all stems. Here, white means white flowers rather than foliage materials; foliage such as Eucalyptus and Ruscus does not help fill the qualifying share, but it still counts toward the total number of stems. You can fill the bouquet with reds, as in the recommended “Classic Romance,” made with 3 Red Roses + 2 Magenta Dahlias + 1 Pink Waxflower + 1 Eucalyptus, or pass the requirement using only purple and white flowers, as in “Valentine Violet,” made with 1 Purple Lisianthus + 2 Lavender + 2 Purple Statice + 1 Baby's Breath + 1 Dusty Miller. Blue flowers such as Blue Hydrangea, Delphinium, and Cornflower fill the same qualifying share. Only yellow and orange flowers and foliage materials fall outside that share, so if you want to use plenty of foliage, you need to fill the remaining places accordingly.

Celebration — The Requirement Is a Main Flower, Not a Colour

The Celebration theme, which covers graduations, weddings, births, and victories, does not ask for a colour. Its only requirement is that the bouquet contain at least one flower in the Main role. Colour is used for palette chips in the recommendation list, not as a requirement. There are six palettes in all — Red, Pink, Yellow, Orange, White, and “Blue·Purple,” which combines blue and purple in one chip — and the Celebration list uses the first five of them. The Yellow and Orange arrangements were designed with graduation in mind, White with weddings, Pink with births, and Red with victories. That is why both “Sunshine,” made with 3 Sunflowers + 2 Yellow Freesias + 2 Eucalyptus, and “Wedding Vow,” made with 1 White Rose + 2 White Freesias + 2 Baby's Breath + 1 Dusty Miller + 1 Eucalyptus, are arrangements for the same theme.

Words of Comfort — No Bold Primaries and Three Calm Stems

Words of Comfort considers two requirements together: there must be no flowers classified as bold primary colours, and there must be at least three stems classified as calm materials. The second requirement counts stems, not kinds, so three stems of the same flower are enough — the recommended “Quiet Comfort” has 3 White Lilies + 2 Baby's Breath + 2 Eucalyptus, and all seven stems are calm materials. Conversely, adding even one Red Rose or Sunflower breaks the first requirement. This restrained-colour arrangement is a condition Flowyric defines for the theme, not a standard that decides which flowers will suit any particular person's feelings.

Four Seasonal Themes — Only Spring Picnic Has Different Requirements

The four seasonal themes are Spring Picnic, Summer Getaway, Autumn Stroll, and Winter Gift. Of these, only Spring Picnic does not require a seasonal material: its requirement is at least four distinct kinds of flowers, and the recommended “Spring Field” (2 Pink Peonies + 2 Orange Tulips + 1 Pink Waxflower + 1 Baby's Breath + 1 Eucalyptus) in fact contains no flowers classified as spring materials. Each of the other three requires at least one material from the relevant season and adds a colour requirement. Summer Getaway needs at least three cool-toned (Blue·Purple) stems, Autumn Stroll needs warm-toned (Yellow·Orange) stems to make up at least half, and Winter Gift needs neutral (White·Green) stems to make up at least half.

The winter recommendation “Camellia's Confession” (3 Red Camellias + 2 Cotton + 1 Baby's Breath + 1 Ruscus) shows how the two requirements work together. Red Camellia and Cotton provide the winter materials, while the Cotton, Baby's Breath, and Ruscus classified as neutral account for four of the seven stems, more than half. If you remove both the Baby's Breath and the Ruscus, the winter materials remain, but the neutral count falls to two out of five and the arrangement no longer meets the requirements. A seasonal material is not limited to selection during that season: the flower list simply shows a season badge, and you can select it at any time. You can check which flowers are classified under which season in the seasonal flower guide.

Free Theme — The Option Without Theme Requirements

Free theme is the only one of the fourteen without a theme requirement to meet. You do not need to match a colour or role, and no requirement-met indicator appears. The basic limits of the creation screen still apply: the Finish bouquet button cannot be pressed with no flowers in the bouquet, and you can add up to twelve stems. The often-mentioned odd stem count, three roles of Main, Filler, and Greenery, and range of five to nine stems are not evaluation requirements; they are standards Flowyric follows when building recommendation lists for themes other than Everyday (Everyday recommendations include both three-stem and even-stem arrangements). They are optional points of reference under Free theme, so see the guide to bouquet composition basics for why those roles and stem counts are used.

Practice — Change Only the Gerbera Colour to Compare Celebration and Comfort

Now it is time to check the requirements you have read. The two arrangements below differ only in the main Gerbera's colour, yellow or pink; the stem count, wrapping, and all other materials are the same. The Baby's Breath, Chamomile, and Ruscus included with it are neutral, so they count neither as bold primary colours nor in the pink-red or yellow-orange groups. The only differences in evaluation are therefore the Gerbera's colour group and whether it is a bold primary. Loading an arrangement returns the theme to Free theme, so select the theme chip you want to compare again and check the met indicator beside its requirement. The loaded arrangement does not change when you select a theme chip, and if you have a saved bouquet in progress, Flowyric asks before replacing it.

Both arrangements still meet Celebration after the Gerbera changes to pink, because Celebration checks only for the presence of a Main flower. Words of Comfort, Warm Encouragement, and Anniversary Gift become met with the pink arrangement, while Cheering On and Get Well Soon switch from met to not met. Yellow Gerbera is classified as both a bold primary and yellow, while Pink Gerbera is classified as a non-primary pink. That opens Words of Comfort and Warm Encouragement, which require no bold primaries, while the pink count also opens Warm Encouragement and Anniversary Gift; it closes Cheering On, which requires at least three bold primaries, and Get Well Soon, which requires at least two yellow-orange flowers. In both arrangements, the Baby's Breath, Chamomile, and Ruscus already supply the three or more calm stems that Words of Comfort requires, so the pink Gerberas do not need to be calm for the arrangement to pass.

Several themes can open and close after one colour change because Flowyric calculates each theme requirement independently rather than sorting arrangements into mutually exclusive categories. Do not read these results as a general rule about which colours suit celebration or comfort. For more leeway on the comfort side, try White Ranunculus or White Lily as the Main flower; the Main flower then counts as a calm material too. To preserve the cheering result, use Orange Gerbera. It is classified as a bold primary, so Cheering On remains met and Words of Comfort remains not met. Wrapping does not enter any theme evaluation.

Keep two points in mind when reading the results. The country setting changes recommendations, not these evaluations, so the loaded arrangement produces the same result in every country setting. The previews of the two arrangements may look nearly identical, but they are not the same drawing. To make the same arrangement render in the same shape each time, every stem receives a small offset derived from its name; changing the Gerbera colour changes those stem names, so the Gerbera stems vary slightly in angle and length. The Baby's Breath, Chamomile, and Ruscus stay in the same positions in both arrangements.

  • Yellow Gerbera × 3
  • Baby's Breath × 1
  • Chamomile × 1
  • Ruscus × 2
  • Wrapping: Kraft Paper
  • 7 stems total
Load the Yellow Gerbera arrangement
  • Pink Gerbera × 3
  • Baby's Breath × 1
  • Chamomile × 1
  • Ruscus × 2
  • Wrapping: Kraft Paper
  • 7 stems total
Load the Pink Gerbera arrangement

The themes at a glance

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