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!).

So far I’ve featured: 

Today I’ll be showcasing the best of British flowers for a Winter Wedding. For the purpose of this feature, Winter is considered December, January and Febraury.

All of the wedding bouquets and floral arrangements you see created from British flowers.

Winter in the UK might seem like a tricky time of year for a beautiful wedding bouquet of British grown flowers, but I hope this post will show you its not! You just need to expand your notion of what makes a wedding bouquet a wedding bouquet (tip: it doesn’t mean roses, peonies and dahlias).

So be inspired by this variety of seasonal British winter wedding flowers – from bouquets and buttonholes of exquisite dried flowers, grasses and seedheads, to lush winter bouquets featuring hellebores, anemones, early blossoms and interesting foliage and berries.

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

And if you’re still figuring out what flowers are actually in season for your wedding date, I’ve put together a free guide to Sustainable Seasonal Wedding Flowers for Every Season. It walks you through the best options for spring, summer, autumn and winter, so you can plan with more confidence and less guesswork. You can download it here.

Why should you choose seasonal British winter 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 winter 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 Winter.

Hellebores, anemones and dark leaved foliage

Society Flowers

Winter honeysuckle, garrya eliptica tassels and variegated ivy

Tuckshop Flowers

Tulips, hellebores and honesty seedheads

Bride and Bloom

Dried lavender, dried strawflowers and a variety of dried seedheads and grasses

Wild Zinnia Bristol

Evergreens, paperwhites and ranunculus

Folly Lane (photo by Natasha Marie Photography)

Hellbores, pittosporum and viburnum

Vanessa Jayne Design

Dried dahlias, larkspur and meadow grasses

Cumberland Flower Farm (photo by Joe Mather Photography)

Eucalyptus, tulips and ranunculus

Stacey Hartley Flowers (photo by The Unbridled)

Blossom, narcissi, clematis and hellebores

Wild Zinnia Bristol

Dried strawflowers, nigella seedheads and hazel catkins

Heart of BS13

Clematis, paperwhite narcissi, eucalyptus and dried honesty

Wild Zinnia Bristol

Dried limonium, lavender and oxeye daisies, plus bunny tails and poppy seedheads

The Floral Adventure

Tulips, viburnum, anenomes and pittosporum

Society Flowers

Paperwhites, ivy and ranunculus

Folly Lane (photo by Yeti Photography)

Dried yarrow, billy buttons, grasses and statice

Meadow Cottage Flowers

Ranunculus, eucalyptus and pampas grass

Cumberland Flower Farm (photo by Joe Mather Photography)

Dried wheat, lavender and eucalyptus

Dorset Dried Flowers (photo by Ben Braybrooke Photography)

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

If this has helped you start thinking about seasonal flowers for your wedding, you might find my free Sustainable Seasonal Wedding Flowers for Every Season guide really useful. It gives you a clear, easy reference for what’s naturally available throughout the year — perfect for planning sustainably without overwhelm. Download it here.