How to Choose and Design Wedding Flowers by Season

  • Wedding Flowers By Season

Flowers portray an important role in the design and aesthetics of your wedding. From your bridal bouquet to centerpieces and boutonnieres, these can help set the tone, complement your entire bridal motif, and create a picture-perfect celebration.

 

The Beauty Of Seasonal Flowers

Designing your big day using seasonal flowers is a surefire way that you’ll receive and relish the freshest, most vibrant, and fragrant produce in town. Because they’re sourced in your own locale, these flowers are going to be at their most naturally appealing state.

Choosing to arrange your flowers by season is also an economical choice. You don’t need to pay for additional shipping costs. If you’re going to work with a wedding florist, this decision can help them securely gather and come up with floral arrangements that match your bridal vision.

All these can help save time and eliminate the guesswork as you only have to settle with the available blooms and varieties during a certain season.

 

Seasonal Weddings: Ways To Select And Arrange Your Blooms

However, with all the flowers available in each season, it can be quite tricky to come up with an arrangement that fits your wedding preferences. Gladly, whether or not you’re hiring a wedding florist, there are creative ways to choose and design your wedding flowers by season. Keep on reading to find out how.

 

#1 Spring and Summer

Factoring in your wedding theme can help minimize the stress of coming up with floral arrangements that best fit your motif. Nonetheless, if you haven’t chosen a theme yet, your wedding planner will surely recommend an outdoor wedding.

A wedding during summer and spring is a perfect time to maximize the warm weather and relish the magnificence of nature. You can have your ceremony in the forest, beach, park, botanical garden, or cliff.

To complement the beauty of the outdoors, you can go for a rustic-inspired theme. Proceed and look into spring and summer flowers that give off that kind of vibe. You can choose from a loose cluster of dark-toned blooms mixed with greenery to decorate your centerpieces.

On the other hand, if you’re going for a classic, garden ceremony, you can choose among bright, pastel spring and summer flowers. Typically, this includes Roses, Calla Lilies, Poppies, Tulips, and more.

Since your ceremony is going to be in a garden, keep your floral designs and accents to a minimum so as not to visually overwhelm your guests. If your wedding falls into the hot, summer season, you might tend to worry whether or not your chosen blooms will thrive.

However, you don’t have to compromise and limit your selection of flowers as there are a lot of low-maintenance blooms. For instance, easy-care succulents, Calla Lilies, Hydrangeas, Ranunculi, and Sunflowers are common, heat-resistant flowers.

 

#2 Autumn

Using the tips mentioned before, select and design your flowers according to your wedding theme. Alternatively, rather than trying to match your wedding theme, you can choose autumnal blooms based on a color palette.

Having a color scheme can help you come up with a cohesive, picture-perfect celebration. To help you choose a color palette, take into account you and your partner’s personal taste and color preferences.

On the other hand, you can opt for a monochromatic look. For autumn, you can have an all-white Chrysanthemum arrangement for your bouquet. Chrysanthemums symbolize joy and optimism, which perfectly sums up your emotions as you approach your wedding day.

You can even adorn hints of Chrysanthemums in your wedding aisle for added interest. These little details will surely impress your wedding guests.

However, if you feel like a monochromatic look is quite boring, you can choose different shades of a certain, autumn flower for a casual, fun arrangement. Incorporating various shades of one color also provides visual depth and balance.

 

#3 Winter

You might doubt the idea of a cold-weather wedding. Nonetheless, the good news is that at times, most flowers can be sourced throughout the year. Hence, even if your wedding is held during winter, you still can scout for your favorite flowers to materialize your dream bouquet.

Nonetheless, you can still opt for flowers that bloom during this cold season to honor the cozy season and make everything look natural. If you’re going for a rich black and white theme, anemones are the most striking flowers you ought to take note of.

These give off a chic and modern vibe. You can also look into winter wedding centerpieces to collect more inspiration.

 

Final Thoughts

Selecting, designing, and arranging your florals by season is a creative, fun, and convenient way to embellish your big day. Follow the tips and suggestions above and you’ll surely be able to create the wedding of your dreams.

About the Author:

Theresa Gibson has been blogging about weddings since her college years. Wedding has always been her favorite topic to write about because she believes it is one of the most precious moments in our lives. Theresa's articles have been published on hundreds of reputable wedding-related blogs and publications across the world. Currently Theresa holds a position of a director of editorial content and editor-in-chief at Top10WeddingVendors.com, a leading go-to vendor guide for brides across North America.