No fake flowers:
That's one of those - depends how serious the priest is your dealing with. They say that live flowers signify the point at which the flower is cut at the height of beauty and health to be used in a wedding service to show the life cycle of just that, life. When you are born, you live, you grow and when your at the peak of your life you marry (so they say) you come together with another and that changes your life drastically. That's the symbolization of the cutting of the live flowers in relation to the marriage. To use fake flowers is to symbolize an artificial representation of that whole process.
Also the white dress / black tux is also interesting and has nothing to do with virginity. It's the coming together of two opposite and contradictory colours (again a symbol) to form a perfectly balanced grey when combined. Any additional colours would detract from that absolute balance.
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