Do all the wedding floral arrangement ideas seem to come from spring? Spring and summer are popular times for weddings, but couples are increasingly choosing chillier times of year for their nuptials. For couples marrying in winter, spring floral arrangements may not match their decor. You can create winter wedding floral arrangements with just a few tweaks. From color palettes to greenery, here are some ideas for winter wedding flowers.
Use Seasonal Botanical Elements
A few springs of berries or pine branches turn a wedding floral arrangement into a winter wedding floral arrangement.
Unless your client has a holiday-themed wedding, you'll want to avoid overt holiday accents. But you can still use seasonal flowers, greenery, and other organic materials to create winter wedding floral arrangements. Subtle additions of berries, birch branches, sprigs of pine, and holly leaves keep winter floral designs seasonal.
What flowers should you use? Your clients may have requests for their favorite flowers. But if they leave that decision to you or you need filler flowers, these blooms are in season and appropriate for winter arrangements:
- Amaryllis
- Anemone
- Camellia
- Carnation
- Gerbera
- Ranunculus
- Rose
- Gardenia
- Narcissus
- Star of Bethlehem
- Stephanotis
Using seasonal flowers helps keep costs down and keeps your designs wintery.
Embrace Greenery
Greenery adds color and life to floral arrangements at winter weddings.
It can be difficult to get quality, fresh flowers in winter for a reasonable price. Fortunately, greenery is readily available in winter and on-trend. Fresh green leaves and branches liven up bouquets, wedding arches, and other arrangements and can act as both filler and the star of floral designs.
Don’t feel you have to stick to pine and fir tree branches for winter wedding floral arrangements. Other foliage has grown in popularity for winter arrangements. You can also try
- Eucalyptus
- Magnolia
- Boxwood
- Cedar
- Hypericum
- Italian Ruscus
- Ferns
- Olive branches
Try Neutral and Understated Elegant Color Palettes
White flowers are always appropriate for winter wedding celebrations.
Winter may not seem as colorful as other seasons, but there are still many lovely hues that lend themselves to gorgeous winter wedding floral arrangements. If wedding clients don’t give you a color palette for flowers, go simple with neutral colors like whites and creams. These snowy colors are always appropriate for winter. White is also a classic bridal color and goes with other wedding decor. Continue the look with white or clear vases.
Blues, grays, silvers, and greens are also popular winter colors. Red may be reminiscent of Christmas and Valentine’s Day, but as long as you don’t use holiday embellishments, it’s a perfect flower color for creating contrast and evoking romance. Gold and silver look beautiful at winter events where extra lights and sparkle are welcome.
The tone of colors matters a lot for winter wedding floral arrangements. While bright and pastel-colored flowers are popular for spring and summer weddings, consider muted tones or darker hues for winter wedding flowers. So, instead of pinks, baby blue, and yellow, experiment with colors like burgundy or dusty rose, navy or gray-blue, and gold or straw.
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