Why florists recommend seasonal flowers for weddings and events

With an abundance of gorgeous floral inspiration out there, we often find that our clients will show us a photo and ask that their flowers ‘look just like this’. While we always aim to replicate the overall style and vibe of the flowers to match the vision, sometimes there simply isn’t the seasonal availability to get the flower varieties you are after. We are here to help break down the reasons why choosing seasonality is best for the design process when planning your wedding or event flowers.

Choosing Colour and Style First

We often encourage our clients to first discover what colour palette and style suits them best. As creatives, understanding your vision is essential to our design process. By starting with your colour palette and overall style, we can get a sense of what speaks to you the most and can draw inspiration from this. We can understand the overall look you are after with our expertise and then select florals to suit. By entrusting your vision with us, we can ensure that we will select the best the season has to offer and what varieties will suit your theme.

Keeping this in mind, we always still want to hear what specific flowers you love and we can help guide you as to whether they are in season or not. This way, we can focus on what similar substitutes will be available for you.

Market Availability

As flowers are a product of nature, availability varies from year to year due to seasons and conditions. Before your beautiful wedding flowers have arrived at our store, there is the process of pre ordering and hand-selecting your flowers from the market. Before arriving at the market, these flowers are delivered by the flower growers themselves. We always try our best to get what you require from the market, but sometimes the weather can change floral quality or a delivery from a grower may be delayed to the market. If we know your colour palette and style, we can use this as our guide to hand-select the best flowers that have arrived at the market that morning. What we love about working with nature is that sometimes there are surprises in what the growers bring to the market. We may see something that we know would be perfect for your brief and can choose it on your behalf.

Let us know what flowers you don’t like

As creatives, we also like to understand what varieties you might be opposed to. This gives us an understanding of what not to include and can help you feel at ease that we won’t be arranging flowers in your designs that don’t match your style. This also can be relevant if there are certain colours you don’t like. If you are open to anything, you can also let us know. Trust us to make your magic with your vision.

While we do our best to source your preferred blooms, if for any reason varieties become unavailable, you can rest assured we will always work together with you to select equally beautiful substitutes to suit your overall aesthetic. If you would like to start your journey today of finding your style and colour palette, reach out today and we can send across our Floral Styling guide to you. Get in contact today by emailing [email protected] or by visiting our seasonal flower shop located in Ballarat.