There is a holiday known as midsummer’s eve that celebrates the season, the sun and the fertile earth. A Swedish myth holds that a woman will dream about the man she will marry if she places wildflowers under her pillow on midsummer’s eve. Myth or no, we like the idea that wildflowers are linked with wistful, wild romantic ideals. On your wedding day, you can marry the man of your dreams while holding the flowers that make other women dream of theirs.
Vivacious Variety
Nowadays, people seldom pick their own flowers and instead choose someone like us to help. Picking a wildflower has come to represent spontaneity and thoughtfulness – in a “I saw this and thought of you” kind of way. It takes effort to put together a bouquet of flowers that grow wild. In addition to a sense of fun, one of the biggest advantages of incorporating wildflowers into your bouquet is that there are so many. Choose from bright, bold colors or delicate pastels. Some popular choices include:
Know Your Style
You can simply add wildflowers to your bouquet or use them for the entire arrangement. How you incorporate them will largely depend on your wedding style. For example, if you are having a formal wedding, you likely will not want to fly solo with wildflowers. Instead, use something like Queen Anne’s Lace or asters to complement a bouquet or centerpiece.
Other occasions have license to go wild. Weddings where full bouquets make sense and look appropriate include:
We can make a recommendation of how to pair wildflowers with regular blossoms to pull together your bouquets and centerpieces. We know how to match your wedding style with the right flowers – after all, we have been doing it for years!
Choosing the Right Flowers
We can help you figure out which wildflowers are most popular for your wedding locale. Different flowers grow wild depending on the climate. Flowers popular in the spring on the West Coast may not be available – or may be more expensive – on the East Coast.
Here in the Southeast, we can generally recommend cosmos, baillardia, blue flax and lance leaf coreopsis. We can also make suggestions depending on the time of year:
We love working with brides to come up with ways to add character to your wedding day. A well-placed wildflower or a room full of wild blooms can set your wedding apart and provide wonderful touches of unique color. We love going wild – and we bet you will, too!