If you've already decided on your wedding colour scheme, you'll be wanting your flowers to match! We've put together a list of gorgeous flowers by colour, ready for you to take to your wedding florist and create the bouquets and floral decor of your dreams!
Red Wedding Flowers
Red is a gorgeous shade for a wedding, symbolising true love and passion. A deep red rose has been the symbol of true love for many years and very popular for wedding couples to include in their floral features. Other flowers in reds include: dahlias, gerberas, ranunculus and bouvardia.
Orange Wedding Flowers
Orange flowers are happy and bright, and represent excitement and anticipation, very fitting for a wedding! Gorgeous orange flowers include: dahlias, gerberas, begonias, alstroemeria, lilies, snapdragons, and roses.
Yellow Wedding Flowers
If happiness was a colour, it would surely be yellow! This gorgeous colour represents true happiness and the loving bond of friendship. Yellow flowers include: sunflowers, gerberas, chrysanthemums, craspedia, irises and roses.
Green Wedding Flowers
Whilst there aren't many naturally green flowers, it's a great opportunity to make use of beautiful leafy plants and foliage in your wedding flowers. Said to bring couples good fortune in their marriage, green flowers and foliage include: eucalyptus, chrysanthemum, ferns and succulents.
Blue Wedding Flowers
Blue flowers not only have a much needed calming effect on your wedding day, but they symbolise peace, tranquility and senerity. Blue is also a colour of royalty, and in the past was often the most expensive dye to obtain. Gorgeous blue flowers for your wedding include: hydrangeas, delphiniums, nigelas, forget-me-nots and hyacinths.
Pink Wedding Flowers
Pink flowers symbolise love, just as red flowers do. Pink flowers are also said to represent happiness, femininity and gentleness. If you are wanting pink florals for your day, some popular choices are peonies, chrysanthemums, freesia, orchids, ranunculus, roses, tulips, sweet peas, cherry blossoms, anemone.
Purple Wedding Flowers
Known throughout the ages as a popular colour for royals, purple flowers are often connected with regality. A bouquet containing purple flowers can symbolise tradition and dignity as well as represent adoration and admiration. Purple blooms that are perfect for weddings include: lilacs, hydrangeas, delphiniums, lisianthus, hyacinths and lavendar.
Burgundy Wedding Flowers
Burgundy is a deep shade of red, often symbolising intense passion and love. Burgundy flowers that are ideal for weddings include dahlias, peonies, snapdragons, orchids, roses, and chrysanthemums.
White Wedding Flowers
White florals are often associated with spirituality and purity. When including them in your bouquet, you are expressing a most beautiful and true love for your partner. Popular choices for white blooms include roses, hydrangeas, gypsophila, lily of the valley, freesia, anemone, ranunculus, lilacs, calla lillies, tulips and orchids.
Black Wedding Flowers
Black flowers are a powerful and statement choice for a wedding. Of course, in reality there are no flowers that are truly black with most being very dark shades of purples and reds unless they have been artificially dyed. For weddings, black flowers can symbolise power, mystery and elegance. Here are some ideas for flowers that are (close to) black: tulips, hellebore, dahlias, calla lillies.
Metallic Wedding Flowers
Sometimes a touch of metallic hue can look perfect on wedding flowers and some have a close to metallic hue. For weddings, spray-painted gypsophila looks especially gorgeous in golds and silvers. Dried bouquets are also brilliant for getting a golden hue. If you are wanting truly metallic coloured florals, faux flowers are the perfect solution for getting those unique colours that you just can't get from real flowers.
Remember, your florist will be an expert on the florals that are in season and may have even more beautiful floral suggestions for you wedding. Ready to get your wedding flowers sorted? Find a florist near you on Guides for Brides!