Choose seasonal British flowers for your Spring Wedding

It’s British Flowers Week 2024 and I am hoping to inspire you throughout this week to choose seasonal British flowers for your wedding – whatever the season (yes, even Winter!).

I’ll be doing a feature on each season, starting today with Spring Weddings. For the purpose of this feature, Spring is consider March, April and May.

All of the wedding bouquets and floral arrangements you see created from British flowers. What’s apparent to me is just how diverse a seasonal Spring wedding bouquet can look, it’s not just got to be pastel shades.

Don’t forget to check out the Wedding Flowers category of our eco wedding directory to find our recommended suppliers.

Why should you choose seasonal British spring wedding flowers?

Most simply put – they are the most sustainable option for wedding flowers. Flowers from the Farm list 6 reasons to buy British flowers (you can read all the info here), which in short are:

1. Tread lightly on the planet – flowers are grown mainly outdoors without need for additional light and heat; no chemicals needed to extend the flowers life once cut; and the flower farmers care and enrich the soil and land they grow on.
2. Reduce flower miles – flowers grown in the UK travel much shorter distances than those coming from abroad by boat or plane, some coming from as far as South America, Africa and Asia.
3. Character and charm – British flower farmers grow small quantities of lots of different varieties, and sometimes that aren’t uniformly straight, but this gives interest and uniqueness to the arrangements they create.
4. Buy local – support your local economy and community!
5. Bring the outdoors in – seasonal flowers really capture a moment in the British seasonal year and for a wedding I think that’s pretty special.
6. Because you’re a flower lover – this is about a love for flowers that look AND smell divine, something you will struggle to find in the commercial flower supply chain.

Important things to remember about seasonal British spring wedding flowers

Each of the bouquets and arrangements featured comes from a flower farmer or florist from all over the UK. It’s important to remember that different places will have different flowers available in season – what’s growing in Cornwall in spring will be different to what’s growing in Scotland.

There are also seasonal variations year to year depending on the weather. When choosing British flowers you need to release some of your expectations and be open to going with whatever is blooming best when you get married.

Do take that into consideration when viewing the images. The best thing you can do is find a florist or flower farmer local to where you’re getting married and find out what might be blooming in Spring.

Daffodils, snakes head fritillary and hellebore

Wild Zinnia Bristol

Forget-me-nots and tulips

Blue Hill Flora (photo by Kate Richards Photography)

Narcissi, daffodils and tulips

Laurenne Hopkins Flowers

Tulips, snakes head frittilary, anemones

Fletcher & Foley (photo by Jo Bradbury)

Anemones, ranunculus and Icelandic poppies

Smokebush Floral (photo by Charlotte Palazzo Photography)

Geums, ranunculus and hellebores

Meadows & Mulberry (photo by Ailsa Reeve Photography)

Tulips, anemones and ranunculus

Bride and Bloom (photo by Captured by Katrina Photography)

Peonies, narcissi, and ranunculus

The Garden Gate Flower Company

Lilacs and ranunculus

Hook Heath Flower Farm

Ranunculus, tulips and stocks

Laurenne Hopkins Flowers

Apple blossom, tulips and lilac

Vanessa Jayne Design

Ranunculus, lupins and sweet peas

Meadows & Mulberry (photo by Ailsa Reeve Photography)

Bluebells, ranunculus, and blossom

Paintbox Blooms

Beech foliage, sweet peas and vaccaria

Queen of the Meadow Flowers

Narcissi, tulips and hyacinths

Hook Heath Flower Farm

Icelandic poppies, wild grasses and tulips

Sophie Flowers

Peonies, roses and snapdragons

The Foraged Bouquet

Buttercups, nigella and grasses

Folly Lane (photo by Liberty Pearl Photography)

Delphiniums, orlaya and ranunculus

Sophie Flowers

Don’t forget to check out the Wedding Flowers category of our eco wedding directory to find our recommended suppliers.