Wild Flower Wedding Bouquets: Flower Choices For Every Season

Many brides are choosing to carry a wild flower wedding bouquet rather than a florist's professionally created one. A wild flower wedding bouquet is less formal and more personal, and can add a lovely note to your day. Don't forget that many florists work with wild flowers as well as greenhouse ones. If you'd like to carry a wild flower wedding bouquet, start by speaking with your florist about your idea. He or she may have some suggestions for you.

But then, there's that romantic image of carrying a wild flower wedding bouquet down the aisle, arranged from flowers you've picked yourself. If that's your imagination at work, then you'll need to do a little forethought and planning. If you consider it early enough, you can attempt to grow your own wild flowers - if you're planning a wedding at the right time of year. The chart below can give you an idea of wild wedding flowers that might be available during the season in which you plan to be married:

A Spring Wild Flower Wedding Bouquet

The Spring bride has a wide choice of flowers to pick from. If your wedding is informal, a ribbon tied bouquet of daisies is one of the most romantic wild flower wedding bouquet ideas of all. It hints at the sweetness of first love and a handful of daisies clenched in a little hand. For something a bit more formal, you might mix white, purple and yellow crocuses and fill with greens and baby's breath. The long, rigid stems make them an ideal bouquet flower.

Flowers like violets tend to be far too fragile and tiny to include in a bouquet, but they can be worked beautifully into a wreath of dried or fresh wildflowers. And for a truly unique and stunning wild flower wedding bouquet, wrap an armful of pussy willow and forsythia branches in criss-crossing white ribbon and carry in the crook of your arm.

A Summer Wild Flower Wedding Bouquet

Summer is a bounteous flower season, with dozens of varieties of wild flowers in bloom. Instead of baby's breath, use the delicate finery of Queen Anne's Lace to fill a bouquet of Gerbera daisies, or black-eyed Susans. Anemones - windflowers - are another lovely summer choice, with their feathery flowers in lavender, blue and white. Don't overlook herbs as sources of wild flowers for your wedding bouquet. The tall, spiky spars of lavender are not only beautiful, they have a delightful, old-fashioned fragrance that can't be matched by any other for pure romance.

An Autumn Wild Flower Wedding Bouquet

If you think of autumn flowers as fitting the traditional autumn color scheme, you'll be surprised at the variety of flowers that you'll have available. Purple lobelia is graceful in trailing bouquets, filled with white and lavender and blue asters. You can choose from the bright golden drama of sunflowers, or the warm, sunny yellow of evening primrose.

White lady's lace and pink primroses make a beautiful match, especially coupled with the delicate lacy parabolas of Queen Anne's lace. And for the unusual bride who has a flair for the dramatic and unique, milkweed pods can add a striking accent to a wild flower wedding bouquet of purple statice and yellow goldenrod.

A Winter Wedding Wild Flower Bouquet

Did you think that winter would be left out? Even in the northern states, you can find wild flowers to use in your wedding bouquet, especially if you're liberal with your definition of 'flower'. A bouquet that incorporates pine boughs and pine cones, holly berries and it's glossy, spiky leaves, or mistletoe and its waxy white berries is a unique and beautiful winter wedding wild flower bouquet.