Your Guide to LDS Temple Wedding Flowers
If you’re planning an LDS temple wedding in Utah, we’ve put together a guide to help you navigate florals for your sealing ceremony. Through the details below, you’ll find information on allowable flowers for a temple wedding, how to work with seasonal flowers to maximize your budget, and arrangements to select for your reception space.
Stand-Alone Flowers & Arrangements are Prohibited
The grand exit of your LDS temple wedding is an exciting time to celebrate, with family and friends waiting to greet your arrival. You might be wondering if it’s possible to construct an arch or arbor at the doors of the exit, or if your Utah wedding florist can prepare a few arrangements to be placed on the ground. While arches, arbors, and arrangements are a beautiful idea for a temple wedding exit, all of these items are strictly prohibited. Florists are able to create arrangements that are not tethered to the ground or adhered to the temple facade, but it’s still a big no-no according to temple rules. Preparing for your LDS temple wedding with flowers is limited to personal arrangements that can be worn or held only.
LDS Temple Wedding Flowers Should Be Worn or Held
Any flowers needed for your temple exit fall under the category of ‘personal’ wedding flowers, meaning the flowers assigned to a specific person who can wear or hold them. This extends to you as the couple getting married, as well as the guests awaiting your exit who will be part of your LDS temple wedding photography experience. These items include bouquets, boutonnieres, flower crowns, wrist corsages, flower cuffs, or wearable floral garland. Although these items are allowable for your temple exit and photography experience, LDS temple weddings have very strict guidelines, and it’s important to note that these items are strictly prohibited inside the temple and sealing room.
LDS Temple Wedding Florist - Arrival Time & Preparing Your Guests
There’s a certain kind of magic that happens when a newly married couple exits their temple sealing. Their faces are alight with smiles, their hands are intertwined, and they usually make their exit with their arms raised in the air. The bride is usually holding her bouquet, and the groom's suit jacket is adorned with a matching boutinnere. You might be curious to know how they have these items in hand when they exit the temple if the flowers are not technically allowed inside. There is a very small caveat to this.
As LDS temple wedding florists, we usually arrive at your temple around 40 minutes after your designated sealing start time. This gives us the time needed to hand out the bouquets, boutonnieres, and corsages to your wedding party and immediate family members. It also allows us to prepare your floral items. While it’s true that you cannot expressly have your bridal bouquet or grooms boutiennere throughout your sealing or in the temple, we can pass these times to you through the temple doors seconds before your exit. Worried about affixing your wearable florals? We’ll include everything you need to make the process easy and straightforward, such as safety pins, hair pins, or even heavy-duty magnets.
Who Should You Order Personal Florals For?
Wondering who should be on your list for personal florals for your LDS temple wedding? Immediately following your LDS temple wedding exit, your friends and family will greet you with hugs and well wishes. Once everyone has had the opportunity to shower you with love, you will move into your photo experience. We always recommend having personal florals created for the following guests:
- Bridesmaids
- Junior Bridesmaids
- Flower Girl
- Groomsmen
- Junior Groomsmen
- Parents
- Grandparents
Selecting Flowers for your LDS Wedding by Season
Customizing and designing your LDS temple wedding flowers is one of the most exciting and creative processes of planning your wedding. With your reception and a ring exchange likely following your temple sealing, you’ll need to consider the bigger arrangements when selecting the blooms you’d like to work with.
Something we often advocate for with our couples is working with a selection of in-season blooms. Beginning the process of selecting your wedding flowers by first determining which florals will be in season allows you to make the most of your floral budget and enjoy a larger volume of flowers and decor versus their out-of-season, imported counterparts.
Need a guide to help you determine which flowers will be in season during your wedding? We have a roundup of our favorite luxurious and whimsical wedding flowers available for every season through the links below.
- Winter Wedding Flowers Utah
- Spring Wedding Flowers Utah
- Summer Wedding Flowers Utah
- Fall Wedding Flowers Utah
- Wildflower Wedding Florals
Floral Decor for post LDS Temple Wedding Reception
After the exit, hugs, and photography experience on your temple grounds as a newly married couple, you may have a ring exchange or reception planned at a local venue. While LDS temples prohibit large floral arrangements and installations, Utah reception venues allow for a more flexible decor experience. Here are a few floral items you can plan for throughout your venue experience.
Ring Exchange
- Entryway florals
- Arch or arbor
- Aisle arrangements
- Chair accents
- Toss petals (if allowable)
Reception
- Welcome table
- Gift table
- Seating chart/escort cards
- Sweetheart table
- Guest seating
- Buffet or beverage station
- Cake table
- Hanging floral installations (if allowable)
- Breakout rooms, lounge seating
- Focal points (stairways, mantel pieces, etc)
Working with Wild Earth Designs for Your LDS Temple Wedding Flowers
Wild Earth Designs is based in Salt Lake City and works with couples throughout Utah to design wedding florals for their LDS temple wedding. Our approach combines your wedding day vision with locally sourced, seasonal flowers for impactful design that is respectful of your overall budget. For more detailed information on working with us for an LDS temple wedding in Utah, you can obtain a personalized quote when you visit this link. Or, if you’re still determining the pieces needed for your temple wedding and reception to follow, you can browse our list of offerings here.