How to Choose Your Wedding Flowers No Matter the Season

Your wedding day is about getting married to the person you love, and the details, such as your flowers, help to showcase who you are as a couple through the colours, arrangements, and form.

Choosing your wedding flowers is such a fun and creative process. However, if you don’t know much about flowers, this can sometimes be an overwhelming wedding task.

Don’t worry, flowers don’t need to be complicated to be beautiful. In this blog, I’ll guide you through each step, from when to pick your flowers to the best seasonal choices and practical tips to consider.

Choosing your wedding flowers is such a fun and creative process.

How to Choose Your Wedding Flowers

Before we dive into the specifics, here are five factors to consider when choosing your wedding flowers:

1. Atmosphere: Think about the style and theme of your wedding; is it romantic, moody, bright, etc?

2. Colour & Texture: Consider your colour palette and textures; are they your favourite colours, or the ones that complement you best?

3. Size: The scale of your flowers will depend on your budget, but think about whether you want bouquets, centrepieces, installations, etc.

4. The Couple: Are there specific flowers that make you think of your partner? Or are there flowers that represent you as a pair? 

5. The Florist: Work with a florist who understands your vision and guides you, rather than overwhelming you with endless options and questions.

How Far in Advance Should You Choose Your Wedding Flowers?

With all wedding vendors, the sooner you can get booked in, the better! The ideal time to book would be 9-12 months before your wedding date.

However, please note that popular florists can book up well over a year in advance. If you already know who you want as your florist, I recommend getting in touch as soon as possible.

When you book your florist around the 9-12 month mark, this not only reduces the stress but also relieves budget pressure in the long run. This means you can focus on the fun bit: choosing your flowers.

Choosing Flowers by Season

You don’t need to be a flower expert when choosing your wedding flowers, but understanding which flowers are in season throughout the year will help you gain a better understanding of what’s achievable for your special day.

Plus, choosing seasonal flowers will help ensure your arrangements are fresher, more sustainable, and often more cost-effective.

Best Flowers for a Spring Wedding

Spring flowers have a soft colour palette, producing a gentle, romantic aesthetic when used in wedding flower arrangements.

Popular choices include:

• Tulips

• Hyacinths

• Daffodils

• Pansies

• Peonies

• Bluebells

• Crocuses

• Irises

• Primroses

• Lilacs

Depending on the previous winter and when your spring wedding is taking place, certain flowers may bloom too early or too late, meaning they can’t be used in your arrangements. 

So, an experienced florist will provide you with options and alternatives to use if this happens, taking away any last-minute or unexpected stress.

Work with a florist who understands your vision and guides you.

Best Flowers for a Summer Wedding

Summer flowers are well-known for their bold, bright colours and lighter textures, helping to create a joyful and elegant atmosphere.

Popular choices include:

• Roses

• Dahlias

• Marigolds

• Zinnias

• Sweet peas

• Cosmos

• Delphinium

• Carnations

• Daisies

• Sunflowers

Unlike the other seasons, two key considerations for summer wedding flowers are heat and outdoor suitability.

The hot summer sun can rapidly dehydrate your flowers, causing them to fade and wither. Don’t worry, this can be avoided by keeping the flowers cool for as long as possible and regularly changing the water.

If you’d like your arrangements to last a long time, your florist will be able to recommend hardy flowers, such as lavender, African daisies, and coneflowers.

Best Flowers for an Autumn Wedding

Autumn flowers are the best if you want lots of amazing textures, from soft, lush petals to feathery plumes, velvet petals, and crunchy foliage.

They’re also loved for their rich, decadent tones, which make for a cosy, rustic, and intimate environment.

Popular choices include:

• Chrysanthemum

• Aster

• Hylotelephium

• Celosia

• Anemones

• Carthamus

• Kniphofia

• Sedum

• Hawthorn berries

• Pampas grass

If you’re looking to still have some pops of colour and whimsy, some summer flowers bloom into early autumn.

Alternatively, autumn flowers can be made to look more wintery with the use of more berries and darker foliage.

This makes autumn a very versatile season for flower arrangement varieties.

Best Flowers for a Winter Wedding

If you’re after even more texture than what autumn has to offer, then you’ll love winter wedding flower arrangements.

With an array of branches, foliage, fruit, and flowers to choose from, a winter wedding can be dramatic, elegant, minimalist, or anything in between, thanks to the variety the season brings.

A common assumption is that there aren’t many winter flower options available, but that’s simply not true! There are lots of lovely options.

Popular choices include:

• Poinsettias

• Hellebore

• Amaryllis

• Cyclamen

• Calla Lilies

• Camellias

• Daphnes

• Pinecones

• Winterberry

• Evergreens

Spring flowers have a soft colour palette, producing a gentle, romantic aesthetic.

Practical Considerations for Confident Choices

Now that you have some inspiration for each season, here are some practical factors to consider when choosing your flowers, no matter the season:

• Budget: Everyone’s wedding budget is different. So, if there are certain arrangements you know you want, or specific flowers that need to be included, let your florist know as soon as possible so they can work with you to make your vision come to life.

• Trust: By this, I mean you need to trust your florist and their expertise. They’ll be able to help you determine what is and isn’t possible with your budget and sourcing the flowers you want.

• Flexibility: That being said, being open to letting go of your ‘must-have’ flowers and being open to substitutions is crucial. Your florist will do whatever they can to create your dream wedding flowers, but being flexible will prepare you in case the unexpected happens throughout the seasons.

How We Can Help You Choose the Perfect Wedding Flowers

I hope you found this blog useful and you now feel confident in how to choose your wedding flowers. Remember to focus on feeling and atmosphere; this will help you when picking colours and types of flowers.

If you’d like support choosing wedding flowers with care and confidence, I’d love to hear from you. Let’s create something truly meaningful together.