The colours you choose for your wedding are so much more than just a collection of hues that look pretty together – they’re the watercolours with which the beginning of your forever is painted.
When we work together on your wedding flowers’ colour palette, developing the perfect selection of shades is a big focus of mine. Choosing the perfect blooms is just the beginning – I’ll take into account the colours in your venue spaces, on your stationery and signage, your candles and napkins and the seat pads on your chairs, even your bridesmaids’ dresses; carefully planning so your colour scheme flows from the moment you and your guests arrive.
“The colour palettes Gemma created were perfectly in keeping with the season, our venue and the bridesmaids dresses, and this was due to her thorough pre-planning and 1-1 meetings. Her attention to detail was greater than we ever could have asked for.”
Alex and Jack, Pelham House
Why Your Wedding Flowers’ Colour Palette Is So Important
Whether it takes place over one day or a whole weekend, you can think of your wedding as a story – a fairytale, even. There are distinct sections to a wedding day (ceremony, drinks reception, dinner, dancing, as an example) and you and your guests will go on a journey; a journey your wedding florist is a part of from beginning to end.
The real skill is in making the story flow, linking each part of the day together seamlessly, and your wedding flowers and your colour palette are a big part of making that happen.
As your guests arrive at your wedding, they should be greeted by the vibe, and we can begin by using florals on your welcome signage to give your loved ones a sense of what to expect next. I’m a self-confessed Type A Virgo (see: detail-oriented perfectionist), so will leave no stone unturned on your wedding day timeline – catch me matching your wedding flowers’ colour palette to your other design details, and using your blooms as a constant throughout the day.
In this way, we can create a beautiful blend of novelty and familiarity, two things the human psyche loves just about equally, to make your guests feel simultaneously spoilt and seriously impressed.
Photographer: Nigel John Photography
Matching Your Wedding Flowers To Your Wedding Details
“Gemma came up with a beautiful colour palette which tied in perfectly with our venue, the autumnal vibe, and our stationery and bridesmaid dresses.”
Lauren and Tom
The key to cohesion is collaboration and a floral colour palette with real wow factor has to flood through all details of your day to be truly impactful. I intentionally design your wedding flowers with a bigger-picture attitude, and my clients always tell me how much they love this approach.
Just some of your wedding day details that I’ll match your colour palette to are;
- Your venue’s interiors, exterior features and grounds. I’ll consider the colours and items of your spaces, creating a floral design that enhances rather than competes with them. If you’re getting married in the gardens, I’ll take into account any flowers, plants and trees that are already there.
- Your stationery, including signage, menus, table numbers and place cards. If you’ve chosen the perfect shade of butter yellow or blossom pink for those, I’ll make sure your table florals are in aesthetic alignment.
- Other table styling items such as candles, which I can provide as part of my floral service. Candle colours can vary wildly between suppliers and even look different online than they do in person, so getting them from me ensures I know exactly what shade I’m working with to craft a crush-worthy dinner table of dreams
- Wedding party outfits. Whether you’ve got a whole crew of bridesmaids in dresses, a wedding day team in matching suits, or a small but perfectly formed support network, I can match your wedding flowers’ colour palette to their outfits or accessories.
- Your outfit! I’ll always ask you about your wedding dress or outfit design so I can fabricate the perfect bouquet design – will it be chic and minimal, organic and drippy, or abundant with lots of movement?
Photographer: Kitty Wheeler Photography
Where We Use Your Wedding Flowers’ Colour Palette
When you think of wedding flowers, you might think of ceremony arches, dinner table centrepieces and a bouquet – but there is so much more fun to be had. Part of the Bloominati experience is knowing that everything that can have flowers, will have flowers.
Let’s explore all the different places your wedding flowers’ colour palette comes into play to create that gorgeous, flowing fairytale we talked about earlier.
- Welcome signage. The first thing your guests see when they arrive is your welcome sign, and I’ll work with your sign supplier to configure a floral arrangement we can add to it on the day. Signage enhanced with living decor sets the tone for the day, and that tone is elevated.
- Aisle flowers. On the all-important walk down the aisle, who wouldn’t want to stroll through a meadow of blooms? I love this as a way to create an aisle where there isn’t naturally one, and it doesn’t always have to be in a straight line either! Francesca and Oliver’s wedding at Wasing Park is a perfect example of how aisle flowers can be used to guide the eye to the real focal point: you.
A truly show-stopping wedding begins with an amazing team of suppliers, who all work collaboratively to give you the best possible day.
I talk to your other suppliers a lot, particularly your wedding day coordinator or planner and photographer – we discuss your timeline in great detail, ensuring we can factor in time to repurpose and relocate your flowers throughout the day and make space for your portraits with your specially created floral backdrops.
Other creative collaborations include:
- Your cake artist. I’ll get in touch with your cake maker to get on the same page about the design, and in turn create florals that can be used to decorate your cake table and/or the space around it. These Somerley House wedding flowers are a great example of how this can look and feel.
- Your photographer. Not only will we talk about your timeline and arrange for those all-important photo moments, I can also provide styled flatlay boxes for them to capture the lovely but little details of your day. These often include items of stationery, jewellery, ribbons, perfume bottles and, of course, flowers. Flatlay boxes make for gorgeous, editorial style photos for you to treasure, long after the menus have been discarded and the wedding day earrings safely stored.
- I also collaborate closely with your photographer so that, after your guests have left your ceremony space, there’s time for you to go back in for some gorgeous exclusive portraits of you with your ceremony flowers. It’s such a treat for you to be able to maximise that moment, using your blooms as a backdrop for your first pictures together as newlyweds.
Developing your wedding flowers’ colour palette is, for me, so much bigger than asking what your favourite colours are or following the trends. It’s like selecting the perfect font for a novel or the right sauce for your pasta; it can take something from lovely to exquisite, and I’ll always give it the attention it deserves.
If you’d like to see more of how a Bloominati wedding day colour palette weaves its way through every detail, take a look at the pink and red florals I designed at Northbrook Park.
Get in touch to start designing your own aesthetically artistic wedding flowers.
Lover of baked goods, scented candles, ASOS and the theatre. When I’m not planning gorgeous wedding flowers for my beautiful couples, I’m doting on my little rescue dog, attending a gig, eating pizza or I’m glued to my laptop working when I should probably be relaxing because I absolutely love what I do.
