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Wedding 101: Floral Basics, Part Two

by Niki - Inspired Bride 10 Comments

As promised, here’s an overview of some great flowers and fillers to use for your reference. This is not a complete list, of course (how could I ever finish writing?!), but I’ll certainly keep updating it along the way.

It’s easier to have discussion with your florist and hear all of his or her creative ideas if you know the plants they’re referencing. Here are some of the most popular and most interesting bits of plant life available to you for your wedding.

Baby Eucalyptus Baby Eucalyptus


Fragrant branches that can be great accents to more rustic bouquets.

Bells of Ireland Bells of Ireland


A great botanical filler with a fantastic green shade and a lot of interesting shape and texture.

Mum Chrysanthemum, or Mum


A flower with multiple forms that fit a variety of tones. Spider forms are more modern, while football mums are soft and romantic. Chrysanthemums come in a wide variety of colors, including white, reds, purples, yellows.

Craspedia Craspedia

A ball-shaped botanical filler that adds interest and color to any bouquet, but would work particularly well paired with more rustic themed flowers.

Dahlia Dahlia

A voluminous flower usually with layers of petals. The dahlia comes in a wide variety of forms (twenty are currently recognized by the American Dahlia Society) and colors (they often come in pinks, purples, reds, oranges and yellows; some varieties are bicolor). Dahlias are in season during mid to late summer.

freesia Freesia

A fragrant flower with a spray of blooms. Freesia comes in a variety of pinks, purples, reds, as well as orange, yellow, and white.

Gardenia Gardenia

A fragrant, elegant exotic flower that usually comes in a shade of white or a very pale yellow. The peak season of these flowers is mid-spring through mid-summer.

Gerbera Daisies Gerbera Daisy

A great flower for a more casual or country bouquet. Gerbera daisies can be small (Gerbera Minis) or large, and come in different shades of yellow, orange, pink, red, and white.

Hyacinth Hyacinth

A flower with many blooms in red, pink, white, orange, yellow, violet, or blue.

Hydrangea Hydrangea

A flower that grows in globe-like flowerheads and can add a lot of texture to a bouquet. Flowers are commonly white but some varieties display shades of blue, purple, and pink.

Hypericum Berries Hypericum Berry


A fantastic and trendy filler that works double time. Not only does it add more volume to your bouquet, but in shades of peach, pink, yellow, white, cream, and red, they can also bring a lot of color into it as well.

Italian Ruscus Italian Ruscus


A widely used greenery filler. The leaves are elongated in shape and has year-round availability.

Lily of Valley Lily of the Valley


A flower that is increasingly used alone in multiples in simple modern bouquets. Its bell shaped white flowers are elegant and delicate. It has a sweet fragrance.

Lissianthus Lisianthus

The flower body comes in two forms: single and double. Single forms can resemble poppies while double forms are similar to roses.

Orchid Orchid

A highly recognizable flower becoming more and more popular in modern bouquets for their elegance and graphic simplicity. Orchids make a great accent for destination and summer weddings, though they have no limited season availability.

Peony Peony

A lush flower with layers of soft ruffled petals that give it a round, full shape. The flower has a sweet fragrance and romantic look, making it an incredibly popular wedding flower. The peak season is late spring and early summer.

Peruvian Lily Peruvian Lily


Also called Lily of the Incas, this “miniature lily” blooms in shades of red, orange, pink, yellow, purple, and white. Peak season is in late spring to early summer.

Ranunculus Ranunculus

A great flower to utilize in the place of filler for volume and color without adding much expense. The layered petals of these flowers make them perfect compliments to flowers like dahlias and peonies.

Star of Bethelhem Star of Bethelhem

Characterized by its conical spike from which star shaped white flowers bloom in clusters.

Stephanotis Stephanotis

A modern star-shaped flower with a sweet fragrance. It is an incredibly popular flower to use, but requires more hand labor because its small stems often need to be wired.

All photos by FiftyFlowers and Grower’s Box, two wholesale floral vendors, who are great resources if you’re interested in doing your own flowers.

Filed Under: Bouquets and Flowers, Wedding 101

The opinions expressed here by The Inspired Bride editors are their own, not those of The Inspired Bride or TWBN.

Comments

  1. Isabella says

    I love your suggestions about fun cool flowers. As the head wedding flower coordinator, for those DIY brides it is very possible to create the most amazingly beautiful flowers. Tips are keep the design elegant by using only one or two types of flowers. We at Fiftyflowers.com are more than happy to help give suggestions. Good luck to all of yall and love this blog.

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    • Niki - Inspired BrideMaddy says

      Hey Isabella – thanks for the comments. Your site and assortment is fantastic – definitely a great source for bulk flowers. I definitely would recommend Fiftyflowers!

      Reply
  2. K @ BlogGoggles says

    That’s awesome. Thanks for laying these out.

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    • Niki - Inspired BrideMaddy says

      Absolutely! It took a while, but I think it was worth it!

      Reply
  3. Joyce says

    Thanks for this!! I’m absolutely clueless about flowers and this is going to help!!

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    • Niki - Inspired BrideMaddy says

      Absolutely! Best of luck on your upcoming wedding.

      Reply
  4. APRIL says

    I just ordered many of these for my wedding from http://wholeblossoms.com. I was lucky they had these since some of the other wholesalers were out of one or more.

    Reply
  5. Marina says

    These floral suggestions helped me pick the flowers for my wedding. I bought from bloomsbythebox.com and they were very helpful. I got everything I ordered on time and my arrangements came out beautifully!

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