The Best Spring Wedding Flowers: Seasonal Style Guide
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The Best Spring Wedding Flowers: Seasonal Style Guide
Best spring wedding flowers
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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Types Of Flowers For A Spring Wedding: What’s In Season?
Working with spring wedding flowers in season is one of the best ways to celebrate these months, and there are a whole host of wonderful options to choose from.
Ranunculus
I absolutely adore working with ranunculus, with their fluffy, ruffly, wafer-thin petals. Butterfly ranunculus have an almost shimmery quality to them, while other types have much larger heads and an abundance of petals to really add volume to an installation or bouquet.
Tulips
Whilst often viewed as a cheap and cheerful variety, widely available in the supermarkets, as a florist I have access to so many special, beautiful types - you’ll be surprised how versatile they are! Parrot tulips have a fringed edge to their petals, while double tulips can look as full and fluffy as peonies - perfect if you’re a peony lover but too early in the year for them! I sometimes even reflex the petals of tulips to change their look entirely.
Tulips are some of the best spring wedding flowers because they twist and turn to reach the sun, so often when used in an arrangement they move, bend and stretch within the design. This is particularly beneficial to my ‘just grown here’ natural style of floral design, allowing the form of the flowers to come to life and each individual stem to behave exactly the way it should in nature.
Other spring wedding flower ideas
Other types of seasonal spring wedding flowers I love are blossoms, hyacinths and magnolia. Spirea, also known as meadowsweet, has a lovely lacy quality to it that also works really well at this time of year.
Most spring wedding flowers have either woody or soft stems, making them tricky to work with and requiring an expert touch to show their true potential. They also tend to need a lot of water, and my majority foam-free style of working benefits this.
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Spring flowers for weddings: Themes and Inspiration
When I think of spring I think of new growth. After months of bare trees and evergreens, we start to see colour and petals and fresh new blooms again. When designing flowers for spring weddings I like to use a mix of beautiful flowers and twiggy stems, leaning into tentative vibrancy and new life as opposed to the rich, cosy warmth of winter wedding flowers.
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Spring Wedding Flower Colour Palettes
I always tell my couples that, no matter the time of year they’re getting married, their colour palette should be defined by what they want and their own personal style - not dictated by the time of year. When it comes to spring wedding colours it can be tempting to lean on pastels and light, airy colours to reflect the growth and newness all around, but spring wedding flowers are available in such a wide range of colours that it isn’t restrictive in this way.
Spring flowers like tulips are available in bright, vibrant pinks, oranges, yellows and even multi colours, so a zesty colour palette is perfectly possible and a gorgeous choice. You can even go for something rich, dark and moody with purples, blacks and dark jewel tones if that’s more your style. Dark neutrals are an option, with burnt reds and oranges and warm browns on offer.
If you are charmed by traditional spring wedding colour palettes, flowers in whites, pale pinks, peaches and apple greens are easy to come by.
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Spring wedding bouquet flowers
When designing your spring wedding bouquet we can work from a particular flower type, colour or style that you love. My floristry style leans more towards organic shapes and natural movement, rather than a neatly formed classic spherical bouquet, but even within my style there is range and a spectrum of options. Whether you prefer a wilder, looser bouquet, something shaped and trailing, or a small, intentional design consisting of just a handful of stems, we’ll design something beautiful that harmonises with the rest of your spring wedding florals while still standing out as the pick of the bunch.
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I would love to help design the best spring wedding flowers you can imagine. If you’re ready to get in touch and begin immersing yourself in a fun floral world, get in touch using the button below.
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