What wedding flowers to buy

Spoiled for choice? Here’s how to choose the perfect wedding blooms...

Seasonal selection

'These days you can get almost any kind of flower at any time of the year,' says Sheila Hurst, a spokesperson for the Society of Florists, but you may prefer something to suit the season of your wedding:

• Spring: daffodils, narcissi, bluebells, freesia, tulips, hyacinth
• Summer: roses, hydrangea, stephanotis, lysianthus, sunflowers, sweet peas, delphinium, larkspur
• Autumn: chrysanthemums, wheat, euphorbia, hypericum berries, alstromeria, gerbera
• Winter: ivy, lilies, orchids, hippeastrum, dark red roses, dendrobium

Living colour

Last, but by no means least, you'll want to choose flowers that fit in with the overall colour scheme of your wedding. 'Girls often give us swatches of material from their own and their bridesmaids' dresses so that we can match them exactly,' says Sheila Hurst.

Ingrid Collins, a colour consultant and chartered psychologist from London, suggests that certain colours are particularly good choices for weddings:

• White, the traditional bridal colour, is a good catch-all colour for weddings as it contains all the colours of the spectrum and therefore all their qualities.
• Red is the colour of blood and a symbol of family ties.
• Orange is the colour of lust!
• Yellow is a sunny, optimistic colour
• Green is a very balancing colour, as it's in the centre of the spectrum
• Blue is calming and serene, but bear in mind that blue flowers are hard to come by!
• Pale violet represents spirituality.

If you'd like more help with choosing your wedding flowers, flower preservation experts Pressed For Time has produced a video called 'Flowers for the Perfect Wedding' in association with the Society of Floristry.

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