The Dittany Blog

The latest floral events and weddings I’ve created along with floral musings, floral announcements, floral events and basically all things flowers from Yorkshire.

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Wedding Bouquet Preservation Art by Dittany Entwined

Your wedding flowers are naturally one of the most transient elements of your day, blooming and flourishing to put on the best possible show for you at your celebration. Unlike your wedding photos, which you’ll look at year after year, your specially bought perfume, which transports you back each time you smell it, and your wedding shoes, which I hope you’ll give at least one more outing, your flowers wilt and disappear once the day is over. But what if they didn’t? My wedding bouquet preservation art sustains the beauty for longer, transforming your florals into heirlooms.


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What Happens When You Enquire With Your Yorkshire Wedding Florist

When you choose me as your Yorkshire wedding florist, you’ll quickly discover that ‘bespoke’ blooms into a whole new meaning with Dittany Entwined. It all begins with our consultation and what has fondly been called The Proposal of Dreams, a highly detailed and immersive vision of how your wedding florals will look that allows you to truly connect with your design. Curating sculptural floral art for you is my pleasure, and these important first stages allow you to share in the excitement and joy of what will blossom into life on your wedding day.


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Top Table Flowers - An Empathetic Approach

As your wedding florist, your top table flowers are very important to me - but not only for the reasons you might think. As well as considering a gorgeous, storytelling design for your top table (which is the focal point of your dining space), I’ll also take into account the room as a whole and any beautiful venue features that should be highlighted and maximised. The most important thing, however, is to help you decide which kind of top table is right for you - if I had my own wedding again, I wouldn’t choose the traditional long style facing everyone, and you may not want to either.

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The Best Summer Wedding Flowers: Seasonal Style Guide

I  don’t like to play favourites, but if I had to choose then summer would be my top season as a wedding florist. It’s a season signified by abundance, colour and variety, and I always think summer wedding flowers are the real cherry-on-top, creme de la creme blooms - particularly the British grown varieties. This is your seasonal style guide to the best florals from the beginning of June to the end of August, so if you’re planning a summer wedding this will be your go-to handbook.

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How To Calm Your Nerves On Your Wedding Day: Floral Edit

I was once just like you, preparing for my wedding day and well and truly feeling the nerves and overwhelm. In the midst of the planning, I read something that really resonated with me and helped me to ultimately feel more present and grounded on my wedding day itself. Every time I wanted to feel calmer and more confident, I used this trick; looking around me and identifying 5 things I could see, 4 things I could touch, 3 things I could hear, 2 things I could smell, and 1 thing I could taste. My wedding flowers played a big part in this, and now I want to help you with the question of how to calm your nerves on your wedding day - a florist’s edition.


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The Best Wedding Flowers For May

As a wedding florist, the flow of the seasons brings me so much joy. I love working with the distinctive types of flowers available at different times of year, and would be hard pressed to choose a favourite month. If I really had to pick, though, May would be high on the list of wonderful months for wedding flowers. If you’re having a late spring wedding we have lots of beautiful varieties available to us, and lots of couple favourites too. The best wedding flowers for May are always the ones that are in season, and the design I’ll create for you will make the most of all the season’s natural beauty.


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Monochrome Bouquet Flowers: Trending Wedding Florals


Monochromatic colour schemes are set to take the wedding world by storm in 2025 - a storm of floral designs based around single colour palettes, celebrating your favourite tones and creating striking visual impact. Monochrome doesn’t just mean black and white. In fact, we can create monochrome bouquet flowers, monochrome installations and arrangements, and monochrome meadows in almost any shade you can imagine. Here are my top tips for how to pull off this wedding floral trend this year.



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English Country Garden Weddings: How To Make Them Bloom, Your Way

If you’re dreaming of an English country garden wedding, you’re probably imagining making a champagne toast on the lush lawn, the scent of lavender in the air, and the gentle hum of buzzing bees and the chatter of your loved ones. Rich in colour and vividly lively, this vision transports you to the exact ambience you want to create on your wedding day. 


This guide is about making your English country garden wedding bloom your way, showing you how we can create the vision in your head through considered use of flowers to ensure it’s packed with your personality. I love this style of wedding flowers, and you’re about to find out it’s surprisingly diverse in nature…


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The Best Wedding Bouquet Flowers - How I Craft Your Perfect Posy

Your wedding bouquet is one of the most important floral elements of the whole day. It’s the treasure trove of blooms you’ll carry with you down the aisle to say ‘I do’, and the first of your bespoke floral creations you’ll lay eyes on. Your bouquet becomes a part of your bridal look, the final finishing touch to the most special outfit you’ll ever wear, and will be something you’ll revere long after your wedding day is over - maybe even forever, if you opt to preserve it. I’m going to reveal the best wedding bouquet flowers, and how I make this the most spectacular bunch of blooms you’ll ever hold.


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When To Book Your Wedding Florist & Other Timeline Tips

The question of ‘when should we book our wedding florist?’ comes with a host of associated questions alongside it. Is there any such thing as ‘too soon’ or ‘too late’, what do we already need to have in place before approaching a florist, and what happens after booking? This is your wedding florist timeline guide to demystify the process, and get you one step closer to beautiful blooms on your wedding day. 


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Preserving Your Wedding Flowers: Bespoke Dried Floral Artwork Commissions

Your wedding flowers are one of the most fleetingly beautiful elements of your day, despite all our technical tricks and techniques to help them last as long as possible. Their transient nature is part of their charm, but your flowers can also be one of the most sentimental features of your wedding - so it’s not unusual for couples to want to immortalise all that floral beauty long beyond the wedding day. Preserving your wedding flowers has been possible for many (and I mean thousands of) years, with traditional methods reigning supreme - but what if we could take wedding bouquet preservation to the next level?


In 2025, wedding flower preservation takes on a new life with my bespoke dried floral artwork commissions. Allow me to introduce you to a totally custom way of immortalising your wedding flowers, drawing on my love of art and sculpture and texture to craft a piece of art you’ll be proud to hang on your wall. Traditional preservation methods combine with my intimate knowledge of different flowers’ personalities, and the result is a mixed media medley that is uniquely designed for you and only you. 

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The Best Spring Wedding Flowers: Seasonal Style Guide

Getting married in the spring is the ultimate expression of all the freshness and joy that comes with the season. It represents the start of something new, and as the bulbs start to sprout and the blossoms begin to bloom, so too does your love flourish into something more beautiful than ever. Choosing the best spring wedding flowers means having your pick of all the gorgeous new seasonal varieties available -  this is the spring edition of my seasonal style guide, planting the seed of possibility for your new year wedding blooms. 

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Winter Wedding Flowers: The Seasonal Style Guide


Designing winter wedding flowers is about embracing the season. The summer months characterised by lush green foliage, big, bountiful gardens and abundant meadows are behind us, and the natural world starts to look more minimal. Floral design at this time of year takes on a different kind of beauty, as do the weddings they decorate. Learn all about winter wedding floral design in this blog.


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Using Pinterest For Your Wedding Flowers: Turning Inspiration Into Reality!

As couples getting married and wedding florists, we all talk about wanting Pinterest-worthy wedding flowers. Using Pinterest for your wedding flowers is an amazing starting point when deciding what style and vibe you want for your own wedding day, and it’s a source of endless inspiration. However, knowing how to use it properly is key to not getting overwhelmed by the unachievable, the AI-generated and the mismatch between Pinterest and reality. My couples and I always use Pinterest at the beginning of our floral journey together, but perhaps not in the way you’re expecting - I’m going to tell you exactly how to use this pretty platform to help build out the floral design of your dreams.

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A Couple’s Guide To Wedding Flower Installations

Wedding flower installations can be one of the most impactful decor elements in a room, transforming a space through consideration of its architecture. There are many different types of installation, each of which come in a huge variety of styles and levels of extravagance. This couple’s guide will help you to understand the kinds of installations we work on at Dittany Entwined, and allow you to envision which may work for your own wedding. 

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The Art of ‘Just Grown Here’ - Natural Wedding Flowers Explained

The use of flowers at weddings dates back to the ancient Romans, for whom they symbolised new beginnings and fertility - two things the natural world has down to a fine art. For me, wedding flowers are a way of experientially connecting you to nature and merging the organic with the sculptural. The Dittany Entwined style is best described as ‘just grown here’ natural wedding flowers, leaning towards wildness and abundance, and is heavily influenced by my background in art. 


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The Influence of Your Wedding Venue on Your Flowers: Architecture, Aesthetic & Artistry

Your wedding venue is often one of the first things you book when planning, and choosing a location for such a special day is a deeply personal and highly individual choice. When designing your wedding flowers, I work in a way that is sympathetic to your wedding venue and all the reasons you love and chose it - how the day will flow, what your specific intentions for particular installations are, and what about the venue you really want to highlight or enhance. Architecture, aesthetic and artistry blend to form a wedding floral design that is bespoke, considered and celebrates you and your wedding venue.

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Floral Installations for Businesses: Bespoke Brand Blooms

As a business planning your next client event, product launch, in-house session or brand activation, you’ll be seeking unique style, on-brand design and a true transformation for your space, shop or studio. There’s no better way to make a memorable first impression for your clients than with bespoke, imaginative floral installations - from inviting entrance arches and enticing window displays, to picture-perfect photo backdrops and long-lasting feature walls. Find out more about my floral installations for businesses, and how the sky's the petal-filled limit. 


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The Seasonal Style Guide: Flowers For Autumn Weddings

The Seasonal Style Guide: Autumn

Utilising seasonal produce is one of the best things about being a floral designer working with fresh and dried flowers. Its something that constantly changes and evolves throughout the year giving new inspiration, and a distinct feel that will last for life times.

In this blog we discuss all the beauty of autumn. The best flower choices and how to choose unique colour palettes.

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How Much Do Wedding Flowers Cost With Dittany Entwined?

How much do wedding flowers cost? A complex question to answer as a floral designer passionate about unique bespoke floral design. In this blog we delve in to pricing and how we work providing some clarity on the subject.

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