THE most romantic bouquet is one that contains the recipient's favourite flowers. The flowers themselves aren't romantic: the fact that someone went to the trouble of finding out what would be most appreciated is.
I used to work in a floral warehouse. The most common thing that goes with roses is "baby's breath" (or gypsophilia -- it's those tiny little white flowers), and either leatherleaf or tiki fern. Leatherleaf looks like stiff fern fronds, great for "framing" the outside edge of the bouquet, and tiki fern is a lot thinner and wispier, and gets interspersed within the flowers. You generally don't see both tiki and leatherleaf together. There's usually only one kind of greenery in a bouquet.
Other good, popular flowers are gerbera daisies, alstromeria, iris, and lilies (one of the more popular types of lily are Stargazers; they're pretty big, though). Carnations are the poor man's rose, I've heard it said, but they're my mother-in-law's favourites.
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I used to work in a floral warehouse. The most common thing that goes with roses is "baby's breath" (or gypsophilia -- it's those tiny little white flowers), and either leatherleaf or tiki fern. Leatherleaf looks like stiff fern fronds, great for "framing" the outside edge of the bouquet, and tiki fern is a lot thinner and wispier, and gets interspersed within the flowers. You generally don't see both tiki and leatherleaf together. There's usually only one kind of greenery in a bouquet.
Other good, popular flowers are gerbera daisies, alstromeria, iris, and lilies (one of the more popular types of lily are Stargazers; they're pretty big, though). Carnations are the poor man's rose, I've heard it said, but they're my mother-in-law's favourites.