We love seeing couples celebrate the changing of the seasons with their wedding flower choices and spring is one of our favourites. Spring wedding flowers include hyacinths, sweet pea, lily of the valley and freesia, all highly-scented additions to bridal bouquets. Not forgetting seasonal favourites like tulips, daffodils, and forget-me-nots which all add fantastic texture to bouquets, boutonnieres or centrepieces.
Spring flowers are a beautiful mix of delicate and textural, fragrant and symbolic and there are so many great varieties to choose from – and that’s before we get to the colours; the palest of pastels, to bright and bold oranges and yellows. Excited about spring blooms, we’ve put together an essential guide to spring wedding flowers!
How to Choose Spring Wedding Flowers
The season in which your wedding takes place will have an impact on your choices. Even though it is now possible to buy almost any variety of flower at any time of the year, most good florists will work with the seasons as well as locally-grown flowers. Using seasonal or locally-grown flowers means better value for your money and a more sustainable choice. Lily of The Valley, for example, was originally available in May alone. Now it’s available throughout the year – at a high price!
To help you decide what seasonal blooms are for you, we’re sharing our essential guide to spring wedding flowers, a list of what flowers are in season in spring in both Ireland and the UK and some sample bouquet recipes to help you make the most of what nature has to offer this time of year. Don’t forget to pin your fave, and scroll to the end for our list of what wedding flowers are in season in spring!
Spring Bouquet Inspiration
One Fab Day bride Claire chose an array of spring blooms for both her bouquet and her bridesmaids’ bouquets, including daffodils, tulips and ranunculus.
One Fab Day bride Anna’s textural bouquet, filled with tulips, white lilac, roses, hellebore and fritillaria is a picture perfect spring bouquet.
This soft cream and peach rose, white lilac and eucalyptus creation by Floral Earth paired with it’s beautiful green ribbon would make a perfect bouquet for a St. Patrick’s Day wedding!
These fresh and elegant pastel spring bouquets by Kristine Hayes Wedding Design combine timeless cream and peach roses, delphinium, ranunculus and sweet pea, and have a gorgeous loose and textural ‘freshly gathered’ feel.
Tulips symbolise deep and perfect love, making them a timeless choice for weddings. Blooming in spring, they also represent rebirth and happiness, with different colours carrying meanings from true love to joy.
For her totally chic spring bridal bouquet One Fab Day bride Sheena chose a soft palette of whites, ivories, yellow, ochre, blush and peach with plenty of Irish foliage. Icelandic poppy, anemone, Quicksand roses, Sahara roses and trailing jasmine featured in the bouquets and florals by Lindsey at The Wilde Studio.
We are totally smitten with Aoife’s darling spring bridal bouquet filled with peonies, roses, sweet pea and soft blue delphinium.
Tulips and bluebells brought a pop of spring colour to bride Jaclyn’s loose bouquet by Patsie & Co.
Lily of The Valley is a classic and traditional bloom carried in bouquets by many an iconic bride (Grace Kelly and Kate Middleton, to name just a couple!). The bell-shaped buds are delicate and romantic and the fragrance is heavenly! Meaghan’s timeless lily of the valley bouquet embodies elegance and classic bridal beauty.
We adore this delicate spring bouquet of garden roses, ranunculus, delphinium, clematis, lisianthus, sweet pea, scabiosa and hydrangea in a joyful mix of soft pastel shades.
For her spring wedding celebration, One Fab Day bride Emma chose a sweet pastel palette of blooms featuring a mix of roses, ranunculus and sweet pea.
This romantic, garden-style spring bouquet featured soft garden roses, ranunculus, sweet pea, astrantia and hellebore, with delicate spirea and trailing greenery adding movement and texture.
Late-spring bride Rachel chose soft, pastel florals by Flowers from the Secret Garden inspired by the beauty of May, featuring elegant seasonal blooms including peonies in a romantic palette of soft whites, greens and the palest pink.
We are simply smitten by the beautiful simplicity of this astilbe and sweet pea bouquet by Flowers by Ruth Hood.
This fresh and light bouquet of soft pink and cream roses and sweet peas by Bella Botanica perfectly captures the essence of spring!
Spring doesn’t have to mean pastels all around; Anne’s Pinterest-worthy flowers, handpicked and arranged to perfection by Flowers from the Secret Garden., combine burgundy, soft pink, and ivory blooms—including roses, fritillaria, ranunculus, and astilbe—creating a contrasting and eye-catching springtime bouquet.
Soft lilac and pretty blue create a dreamy combination in this oversized bouquet, featuring lilac roses, white clematis, sumptuous roses, and an abundance of lush greenery.
Roses, lisianthus, white cosmos, and sweet pea come together to create Brooklynne’s gorgeously feminine and romantic spring bridal bouquet by Kristine Hayes Wedding Designs.
Spring bride Alice carried a lush spring bridal bouquet which consisted of parrot tulips, sweet pea and orchids.
This bouquet was a dreamy gathering of soft-toned blooms—garden roses, sweet pea, and delicate delphinium—tied with a flowing silk ribbon in the most romantic shade of blue, offering a graceful nod to ‘something blue’ tradition.
For a spring bouquet with a little punch, we can’t help but smile at this pretty mix of soft pink and hot pink blooms, featuring orange parrot tulips, a unique taupe-toned sweet pea, hot pink peonies, garden roses, tulips, and astilbe.
Poppies, clematis, roses, stock, and tulips come together in Dearbhail’s beautiful bridal bouquet, showcasing spring garden favourites full of charm.
Yesca’s Flowers created this jaw-dropping summer wedding flowers bouquet full of garden roses and darling white blooms for bride Michelle.
A-Z of Seasonal Spring Wedding Flowers
Spring Wedding Flowers
- Agapanthus (African Lily)
- Allium
- Alstroemeria
- Anemones
- Astilbe
- Bergenia
- Bluebells
- Camelia
- Carnations
- Clematis
- Columbine
- Cow Parsley
- Daffodils (also known as Narcissus)
- David Austin Roses
- Flowering Currant
- Flowering Quince
- Forget-me-nots
- Freesia
- Fritillaria
- Garden Roses
- Gypsophila
- Heath
- Hyacinths
- Hydrangea (late spring)
- Lenten Rose (also known as Hellebores)
- Lilac
- Lily of the Valley
- Lisianthus
- Magnolia
- Muscari
- Peonies (late spring)
- Pieris Japonica
- Primrose
- Ranunculus
- Rhododendron
- Roses
- Saxifrage
- Snowdrops
- Spring Snowflakes
- Springwood White
- Stephanotis
- Stock
- Star Magnolia
- Sweet Pea
- Tulips
- Verbascum
- Veronica Speedwell
- Viburnum
- Wisteria
Spring Foliage, Branches and Berries
- Asparagus Fern
- Apple Blossom
- Catkin
- Cherry Blossom
- Chinese Redbud
- Cornelian cherry
- Eucalyptus
- Fern
- Forsythia
- Hawthorn
- Hypericum berries
- Mimosa
- Nigella
- Osmanthus
- Peach Blossom
- Pear Blossom
- Plum Blossom
- Red Maple
- Trailing Jasmine
- Woolly willow
For more wedding flower ideas check out all our floral inspiration here or contact one of our recommended florists!
