Choosing Wedding Flowers by Season for Your Utah Wedding
Choosing wedding flowers in season will allow you to be mindful of your budget while receiving high-quality arrangements for your Utah wedding. Oftentimes, seasonal wedding flowers will also add atmosphere to your wedding day through a variety of depths, textures, and colors, all working together to evoke the ambience of the season for an unforgettable wedding day experience. Through the details below, we’ll explore two major reasons to select seasonal flowers when working with your wedding florist. You can also find lists of our favorite flowers broken out by season.
Benefits of Selecting Wedding Flowers in Season
Budget
Every couple planning a wedding has a total overall budget to be mindful of. Typically, around 15% to 25% of your total budget should be allocated to your wedding flowers. If your total wedding budget is $50,000, that puts your wedding flowers at $7500 to $12,500. Conversely, a total wedding budget of $75,000 would put a floral budget at $11,250 to $18,750. As you can see, each of these budgets produces a vastly different floral budget, making it imperative that one of the first steps in the wedding planning process is to sit down and come up with a total number you should be mindful of spending.
Many wedding florists will recommend working with in-season wedding flowers for budgets of all sizes. Doing so will allow you and your florist to be respectful of your budget throughout the design process, while also giving you a higher quality bloom and more abundant arrangements. Additionally, in-season flowers do not need to be shipped, processed, or imported, which will also greatly impact your overall final cost and value.
Quality
Wedding flowers chosen from the current season are arguably at their peak and, of course, more readily available. Due to shipping and processing, out-of-season flowers (imports) inevitably have a shorter shelf life from the time your florist receives them to the end of your wedding day. Which may leave you with less vibrant appearing flowers.
In-season flowers will provide you with a longer shelf life and, thus, a higher quality arrangement. This is because they’ve been picked and processed immediately, with little time between being pulled, making their way into your florist's hands, and ultimately your wedding day.
Wedding Flowers by Season
The idea that selecting flowers by season is more constraining when it comes to design is simply untrue. There are several options for wedding flowers throughout every season. Your wedding florist will be knowledgeable about what’s in season for your wedding and what will work best to bring your vision to life. This includes offering alternatives to flowers you may have had in mind that are currently out of season or only offered through import.
Winter
- Amaryllis
- Anemone
- Calla Lilies
- Camellias
- Hellebore
- Holly
- Orchids
- Ranunculus
- Roses
- Sweet Peas (late winter)
Spring
- Peonies
- Roses (early bloom varieties)
- Ranunculus
- Tulips
- Sweet Peas
- Daffodils
- Anemones
- Dahlias
- Greenery (Eucalyptus, Fern, and Italian Ruscus)
Summer
- Billy Balls
- Chamomile
- Cornflower
- Cosmos
- Daffodils
- Delphinium
- Muscari
- Nigella
- Ocean Song
- Poppies
- Queen Anne’s Lace
- Shimmer Roses
Fall
- Amaranthus
- Asters
- Calla Lilies
- Chrysanthemums
- Cosmos
- Dahlias
- Marigolds
- Ranunculus
- Roses
Working With Wild Earth Designs on Seasonal Wedding Flowers
Wild Earth Designs is a Utah wedding florist based in Salt Lake City, serving couples in the surrounding areas. Our approach to using wedding flowers in season emphasizes selecting locally grown flowers and making your budget go farther by suggesting floral arrangements that can be repurposed throughout your wedding day. If you’re dreaming of a wedding day filled with whimsical yet elevated in-season flowers, you can find more details on working with us when you follow this link.