Wedding flower ideas

Choosing your wedding flowers is one of the most important decisions to make when planning your wedding. Even though you have pinned down a theme it can be quite difficult to choose wedding flowers if you don’t have too much knowledge of flowers in general; that is why we have compiled a list of wedding flower ideas that will make this important choice that much more easier for you.

Seasonal flowers

Whether you decide to use fresh flowers or silk flowers, try to choose wedding flowers of the season you’ll be getting married in. It will create a harmonious feel to your wedding. Most importantly you’ll save a lot of money on your wedding budget as flowers are quite expensive.

Summer wedding flowers

If your wedding is in the summer choose wedding flowers of vivid colours, which reminds you of romance and late mornings for example:

• Lavender in all the shades of blue, purple or pink tied with gauzy purple ribbon.
• Deep pink or red gerberas tied with pink or red ribbon.
• Miniature sunflowers tied with wheatgrass and fatsia leaves.

Autumn wedding flowers

Colours like bronze, terracotta, burgundy and burnt orange symbolises the ripeness and fullness of this season.

A daytime wedding

• Miniature gladioli in peach and bronze colours.
• Asiatic lilies. Remember to snip the stamens to prevent pollen staining clothes.

An evening wedding

• Orange calla lilies with bear grass and hosta leaves.
• Shiny red Hypericum berries bunched with plenty of green leaves.

Winter wedding flowers

Flowers with texture and fragrance work wonderfully for winter weddings, but so does white coloured wedding flowers.

• Mixed pink and white camellias.
• Winter jasmine.
• Green and white Christmas roses with ivy woven through the bridal bouquet.

Spring wedding flowers

Spring is the ideal time of the year to choose pretty flowers that reminds you of love, romance, hope and new beginnings.

• The lily of the valley tied with light green and white ribbon.
• Pale golden, delicate daffodils.
• Blue wedding flowers like nigella looks excellent against an ivory colour dress.

If your wedding takes place in the evening of spring use irises tied with beaded ribbon.

Time of your wedding
Once you have settled the time of your wedding, you can determine the texture and shape of your flowers. If your wedding is in the daytime choose softer looking colours and keep the dramatic blooms for a late afternoon or evening wedding.

Complement your hair colours with your wedding flowers
If your hair is blonde you will look good with pink, purple or blue wedding flowers. Brunettes look best with red, orange and bronze wedding flowers whereas red heads, green colours, foliage and splashes of colour complement each other wonderfully. If you are dark skinned use vivid coloured wedding flowers like whites and pastels.

Complement your wedding dress with your wedding flowers
If your wedding dress is white or ivory match the colour with ribbons or accents of white or ivory in the wedding bouquet flowers. Corsages should stay within the colour palette. A white or ivory corsage for the bride of the mother always looks good against any colour or style outfit.

Size does matter when it comes to wedding bouquets
When you are choosing wedding bouquets for yourself and the bridesmaids keep in mind each person’s length and built. If a bridesmaid is small and petite a delicate posy with small flowers would suit her perfectly whereas taller brides would naturally look better holding a bouquet with bigger type wedding flowers such as a lily bouquet trailing ivy.

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