An Essential Guide to Spring Wedding Flowers (2024)

We love seeing couples celebrate the changing of the seasons with their wedding flower choices and spring is one of our favourites. Spring wedding flowers include hyacinths, sweet pea, lily of the valley and freesia, all highly-scented additions to bridal bouquets.Not forgetting seasonal favourites like tulips, daffodils, and forget-me-nots which all add fantastic texture to bouquets, boutonnieres or centrepieces.Spring flowers are a beautiful mix of delicate and textural, fragrant and symbolic and there are so many great varieties to choose from - and that's before we get to the colours; the palest of pastels, to bright and bold oranges and yellows. Excited about spring blooms, we've put together an essential guide to spring wedding flowers!

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How to Choose Spring Wedding Flowers

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” -Robin Williams

The season in which your wedding takes place will have an impact on your choices. Even though it is now possible to buy almost any variety of flower at any time of the year, mostgood floristswill work with the seasons as well as locally-grown flowers. Using seasonal or locally-grown flowers meansbetter value for your moneyand a moresustainable choice.Lily of The Valley, for example, was originally available in May alone. Now it's available throughout the year - at a high price! To help you decide what seasonal blooms are for you, we're sharing ouressential guide to spring wedding flowers,a list of what flowers are in season in spring in both Ireland and the UK and some sample bouquet recipes to help you make the most of what nature has to offer this time of year.Don't forget to pin your fave, and scroll to the end for ourlist of what wedding flowers are in season in spring!

Spring Bouquet Inspiration

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One Fab Day bride Anna's textural bouquetby The Informal Floristfilled with tulips, white lilac, roses, hellebore and fritillaria is a picture perfect spring bouquet.

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The daffodil symbolises new beginnings, making it a fitting bloom for a bridal bouquet. Smitten doesn't even begin to describe how we feel about this daffodil and rose bouquet byMerriment Events.

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A darling spring bridal bouquetby Aesme of ranunculus, hellebores, tulips, alliums,Pieris Japonicaand maple foliage.

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This fresh and elegant bouquet byChristine Goschcombines timeless white and cream roses, stock, alstroemeria and pear blossom has a gorgeous loose and textural 'freshly gathered' feel.

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Soft lilac and pretty pink is a dreamy combination, as demonstrated here in an oversize bouquet of deliciously-scented lilacs, sumptuous purple anemone and pops of paper-like pink ranunculusbyMibellarosa .

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Known to symbolise beauty, strength, and dignity; magnolias are the perfect addition to a wedding. Can you imagine all the 'wows' you would get from this all magnolia bouquet byKelly Lenard of Intertwine?

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This soft cream and peach rose, white lilac and eucalyptus creation byFloral Earth paired with it's beautiful green ribbon would make a perfect bouquet for a St. Patrick's Day wedding!

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We adore this delicate yet moody spring bouquet of fritillaria, David Austin garden roses, clematis, hellebores,Pieris japonica and lilac byBows and Arrows.

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Nothing says spring like a big bunch of tulips! We love this chic all-white bouquetbyFlower Muse of tulips paired with ranunculus.

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This fresh and light bouquetbyNatalie Bowen of sweet peas, fringe tulips, parrot tulips, ranunculus, daffodils, clematis, lilacs, and checkerboard fritillaria jus screams spring!

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We can't help but smile at this pretty peach and yellow bouquetby Passion Flowerwhich is the epitome of spring comprised of garden roses, tulips, and astilbe.

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Hellebore, hyacinth, sweet pea, ranunculus, fritillaria, muscari and lilac - The flowers in this beautiful spring bridal bouquet by Honey of A Thousand Flowers are cottage garden favourites full of old-fashioned charm.

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Foraged greenery, daffodils, tulips and white hyacinth and ranunculus made for a wild and cheery bouquet spring bouquet by Jacin Fitzgerald.

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Lily of The Valley is a classic and traditional bloom carried in bouquets by manyan iconic bride(Grace Kelly andKate Middleton, to name just a couple!). The bell-shaped buds are delicate and romantic and the fragrance is heavenly! This pretty little posy is bySprout Home.

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Cherry blossom, astilbe, sweet pea and carnation combine to make this gorgeously feminine and romantic spring bridal bouquet byOf The Flowers.

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Moody purple might not be the most obvious choice for a spring wedding but this gorgeous bouquet of darkpurple sweet pea with lavenderclematisbyMary Lennox has us convinced otherwise.

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We are simply smitten by the beautiful simplicity of this all hyacinth single flower bouquetbyKae And Ales.

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Tulips and bluebells brought a pop of spring colour to bride Jaclyn's loose bouquet by Patsie & Co.

A-Z ofSeasonal Spring Wedding Flowers

Spring Wedding Flowers

  • Agapanthus(African Lily)
  • Allium
  • Alstroemeria
  • Anemones
  • Astilbe
  • Bergenia
  • Bluebells
  • Camelia
  • Carnations
  • Clematis
  • Columbine
  • Cow Parsley
  • Daffodils (also known asNarcissus)
  • David Austin Roses
  • Flowering Currant
  • Flowering Quince
  • Forget-me-nots
  • Freesia
  • Fritillaria
  • Garden Roses
  • Gypsophila
  • Heath
  • Hyacinths
  • Hydrangea (late spring)
  • Lenten Rose (also known as Hellebores)
  • Lilac
  • Lily of the Valley
  • Lisianthus
  • Magnolia
  • Muscari
  • Peonies (late spring)
  • Pieris Japonica
  • Primrose
  • Ranunculus
  • Rhododendron
  • Roses
  • Saxifrage
  • Snowdrops
  • Spring Snowflakes
  • Springwood White
  • Stephanotis
  • Stock
  • Star Magnolia
  • Sweet Pea
  • Tulips
  • Verbascum
  • VeronicaSpeedwell
  • Viburnum
  • Wisteria

Spring Foliage,Branches and Berries

  • Asparagus Fern
  • Apple Blossom
  • Catkin
  • Cherry Blossom
  • Chinese Redbud
  • Cornelian cherry
  • Eucalyptus
  • Fern
  • Forsythia
  • Hawthorn
  • Hypericum berries
  • Mimosa
  • Nigella
  • Osmanthus
  • Peach Blossom
  • Pear Blossom
  • Plum Blossom
  • Red Maple
  • Trailing Jasmine
  • Woolly willow

For more wedding flower ideas check out all our floral inspiration archiveshere or contact one of our recommended florists!

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