Wedding Floral Decoration: 10 Keys to Choosing the Perfect Flowers and Avoiding Mistakes
- Eventos de Seda
- 1 day ago
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Planning the floral decoration of your wedding is one of the most important aspects of organising the Big Day. In this guide, we’ll show you all the key points to get the most out of it and avoid mistakes using these expert tips.
1.- Where do I start? First steps.
2.- Define your wedding style.
3.- Choose your colour palette.
4.- Is your wedding civil or religious?
5.- The season and whether it’s a daytime or evening wedding.
6.- The wedding venue.
7.- Size matters – gather data.
8.- What flowers should I use for my wedding?
9.- The importance of professional recommendations.
10.- How much does floral wedding decoration cost?
At Eventos de Seda, we specialise in organising, planning, designing, decorating and coordinating weddings. What do we mean by all this? Simply that our mission and purpose as wedding planners is to create your dream wedding, personalised and exclusively tailored to you, according to your preferences, needs and chosen style. Throughout the entire process, we ensure that everything runs smoothly and all expectations are exceeded—especially on the Big Day—maintaining strict control to ensure that everything agreed months in advance unfolds perfectly, while solving any unforeseen issues that may arise.
If you have doubts about what a wedding planner is and what our work entails, you might want to read this blog post to clear up any questions.
So, how can we help with your wedding’s floral decoration?
It’s important to note that we are not simply “baby’s breath arrangers".That’s what the excellent florists are for—those who lovingly and skilfully craft floral arrangements. However, we can contribute our knowledge and experience in design and styling. Alongside the florist you’ve hired, your wedding floral decoration will be a total success using these 10 keys. Let’s get straight to the point.
THE 10 KEYS TO SUCCESSFUL WEDDING FLORAL DECORATION
1.- Where do I start? First steps.
First of all, you should make a study of the expenditure allocated to the floral decoration of your wedding. That is to say, you must be clear about the budget you have earmarked for this supplier or item. As we will see later on, many factors will come into play but it is essential that you have this point well defined.
2.- Define your wedding style.
You must be clear about your desired wedding style. Floral decoration for a romantic wedding is not the same as for a boho one, for example. This decision will greatly impact your budget, as not all flowers cost the same—roses are not priced like pampas grass. This also helps shape your overall decor project with a clear structure.
3.- Choose your colour palette.
A successful floral design depends heavily on choosing a colour palette that matches your wedding style and your personal taste in tones and shades. Everything should follow a narrative thread, reflect your preferences, and feel coherent. You may find this related blog post on wedding decoration helpful.
4.- Is your wedding civil or religious?
And at this point you may be thinking, what does this have to do with anything? Well, I can tell you that it has a lot to do, especially if you focus on the moment of the ceremony. The floral decorations you have for a religious wedding are not the same as for a civil wedding. A religious wedding, to say it in a way, can be more hermetic because it conditions you that the church or place of the ceremony allows you to place certain floral arrangements, even most of the time it happens one ceremony after another, so your duty is to consult it beforehand and thus save yourself unpleasantness. In case of several ceremonies on one day, you should locate these couples and reach a consensus on the decorative style, so that everything is decoratively correct for everyone and most importantly, you can share the costs!
Civil ceremonies usually allow for more flexibility, especially if held in private venues. However, if yours is at a town hall or courthouse, similar restrictions may apply—don’t overlook this.
First of all you must take into account the time or season of the year in which your wedding is going to take place. As a general rule most weddings take place in spring or summer but lately there is a big increase in autumn and winter weddings. Logically, each season offers different varieties of flowers, so don't think about peonies in winter because if you have them they will cost you an arm and a leg, or orange blossom in summer, which will cost you an arm and a leg. Joking apart, it is also essential that you take into account the climate and therefore whether the flowers can withstand more or less.
At Eventos de Seda we focus our work in the southern part of Spain, in Andalusia, we are specialists in organising weddings and Wedding Planners in this wonderful part of the world, in Cadiz, the Costa de la Luz and Seville, therefore we recommend that you choose flowers that can withstand high temperatures, especially in summer. And following on from the subject at hand, you must take into account the time of day when the flowers can be exposed. It is not the same if your wedding is going to be in the morning or in the afternoon or if it is going to be in an open or closed space regardless of the time of the year, it is something that you should also consider.
6.- The wedding venue.
Another important key to the success of your wedding floral decoration is the venue. You must take into account where you are going to celebrate your wedding reception, the cocktail party and therefore visualise the architectural style and the opportunities or not, that the space offers you. Pay attention to the colour of the walls, the native vegetation of the area, the structures or arrangements that you may find, etc. It is also possible that the catering or celebration site may have a basic floral decoration included in the price, which you could adapt to your needs and therefore save money and use it for another item.
7.- Size does matter. Data collection.
And yes, size does matter in this aspect and now you will understand. Closely linked to the previous point, what you must achieve is to create harmony as we have indicated, you must follow a script adapted to your wedding style and chosen colour palette. Visit the place of the ceremony and the celebration as many times as necessary, take notes, measure, observe, take photos, videos, everything you can think of so that at home, you can visualise the different options available to you, to create harmony and logic.
But above all, make sure that what you are designing has a place and is feasible, in other words, that the space can accommodate your approach and fits. Also distribute the scenarios where the different actions are going to take place (welcome corner, cocktail, lounge, seating plan, etc.) and of course pay special attention to the sources of light (natural or artificial) and heat. You will ensure that your flowers last longer.
8.- What flowers should I use for my wedding?
One of the most frequently asked questions throughout our years as wedding planners at Eventos de Seda by our couples regarding floral decoration. And now you go on the internet and you go mad or crazy looking at blogs and posts about this question and you see valuable content (ahem) aimed at solving your question and you see the amount of flowers and chromatic variety that the market offers, whether peonies, carnations, roses of all species, lavender, ranunculus, tulips, etc. and these are the pronounceable ones, we can continue with the unpronounceable ones.
If at this point it is very easy for us to have pulled out a botanical encyclopaedia and have drawn up a list with beautiful photos to satisfy your doubts, and you were expecting that, then you haven't understood anything and you are going to go into a loop. Don't be fooled, we don't fool any of our couples, social networks and the internet sometimes distort reality.
The flowers you should use for your wedding are those that:
Those that fit your budget.
Those you genuinely like and match your style.
Those that are seasonally “available”.
And most importantly… read on to the next point.
We have started this article by telling you that we are Wedding Planners with all that this entails. We are going to help you in the whole process of organising, designing, planning and coordinating your wedding, we are going to achieve it because it is our goal that we do it with great satisfaction, enthusiasm and love. But we will never deceive you.
In the same way that we do when we have a doubt in something that does not concern 100% in our field, you should do the same, without fear, without shame, ask the specialist in particular, absorb their knowledge and advice, use that benefit that you have, that is gold. Being a wedding planner means having to know many different aspects that come into play in the organisation of a wedding and therefore our duty is to know and understand each and every one of them, but not to dominate them.
It is essential that you arrive with a predetermined idea and with your homework done, in short, that you have clear ideas, especially in terms of budget and wedding style, but always let yourself be advised by the flower supplier or florist that you have hired. Make an appointment with them to visit the venues, so that they can guide and advise you on the floral selection and above all that they can give you other ideas regarding species that you are probably unaware of, which either because they are not available in season will have the same effect, or because of a lack of budget will help you in that aspect to cover that need and surely be of the same quality.
10.- How much does floral wedding decoration cost?
The other million dollar question. It depends on the factors described above and there is no fixed amount, we always say ‘as much as you want and can afford’. As a general rule you should have a ‘real’ budget for this provider or service. It is essential that you always indicate how far you can go (both up and down) again without fear or embarrassment.
If this is your case and you have a low budget, consider the possibilities offered by the caterer or the venue, as we have said many times they could have this service included and you can customize it to your taste and / or needs. Also tell your florist the idea you have in mind, and he/she will surely solve the matter for you, show him/her your needs. Another option is to choose other decorative options to replace the flowers and that can be used to fill the space and solve your needs in this respect.
We hope that this guide has helped you to have a resounding success with the floral decoration of your wedding that we wish.
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