Choose seasonal British flowers for your Summer 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!).

Yesterday I featured Seasonal British Spring Wedding Flowers, and today I’ll be showcasing the best of British flowers for a Summer Wedding. For the purpose of this feature, Summer is consider June, July and August.

All of the wedding bouquets and floral arrangements you see created from British flowers. They come in all shades of colour, and lots of different styles. There’s loads of choice of blooms, plus beautiful grasses and foliage.

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 summer 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 summer 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 summer 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 Summer.

Sweet peas, geums and calendula

Queen of the Meadow Flowers

Verbascum, pimpinella and eschscholzia ivory castle

Fletcher & Foley (photo by Jo Bradbury)

Cosmos, dahlias and scabious

Smokebush Floral

Snapdragons, roses and crocosmia

Wild Zinnia Bristol

Cornflowers, ferns and feverfew

Blue Hill Flora (photo by Michelle Huggleston Photography)

Zinnia, scabious, nigella and dill

Florette Flowers (photo by Jessica Reeve Photography)

Peonies, scabious and ranunuculus

North and Flower

Snapdragons, delphiniums and zinnias

Tuckshop Flowers

Chrysanthemum, phlox, cosmos and dahlias

Homestead Flowers

Dahlias, cosmos and trailing tendrils

Eden Valley Flower

Roses, sweet peas, scabious and mint

Florette Flowers (photo by Jessica Reeve Photography)

Dahlias, cosmos and frosted explosion grass

Laurenne Hopkins Flowers

Dahlias, roses and amaranthus

Meadows & Mulberry

Roses, clematis and eucalyptus

Somerset Blooms

Roses, sweet peas and eucalyptus

Tuckshop Flowers (photo by Sara Lejon Photography)

Calendulas, cosmos and dahlias

Smokebush Floral (photo by Imogen Wastell Photography)

Roses, sweet peas and cosmos

Stacey Hartley Florals

Feverfew, garden roses and nigella

Heart of BS13

Dahlias, cosmos and grasses

Eden Valley Flower (photo by Jenny Jones Photography)

Peony, roses and nigella

Meadows & Mulberry (photo by Stanhope Weddings)

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