What's in Season: Essential Guide to Spring Wedding Flowers

An A-Z of seasonal spring wedding flowers

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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!

An Essential Guide to Spring Wedding Flowers | onefabday.com — Spring Wedding Flowers Image by Georgianna Lane

How to Choose Spring Wedding Flowers

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” - Robin Williams

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 Anna's textural bouquet by The Informal Florist filled with tulips, white lilac, roses, hellebore and fritillaria is a picture perfect spring bouquet.

The daffodil symbolises new beginnings, making it a fitting bloom for a bridal bouquet. Smitten doesn't even begin to describe how we feel about this daffodil and rose bouquet by Merriment Events.

A darling spring bridal bouquet by Aesme of ranunculus, hellebores, tulips, alliums, Pieris Japonica and maple foliage.

This fresh and elegant bouquet by Christine Gosch combines timeless white and cream roses, stock, alstroemeria and pear blossom has a gorgeous loose and textural 'freshly gathered' feel.

Soft lilac and pretty pink is a dreamy combination, as demonstrated here in an oversize bouquet of deliciously-scented lilacs, sumptuous purple anemone and pops of paper-like pink ranunculus by Mibellarosa .

Known to symbolise beauty, strength, and dignity; magnolias are the perfect addition to a wedding. Can you imagine all the 'wows' you would get from this all magnolia bouquet by Kelly Lenard of Intertwine?

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!

We adore this delicate yet moody spring bouquet of fritillaria, David Austin garden roses, clematis, hellebores, Pieris japonica and lilac by Bows and Arrows.

Nothing says spring like a big bunch of tulips! We love this chic all-white bouquet by Flower Muse of tulips paired with ranunculus.

This fresh and light bouquet by Natalie Bowen of sweet peas, fringe tulips, parrot tulips, ranunculus, daffodils, clematis, lilacs, and checkerboard fritillaria jus screams spring!

We can't help but smile at this pretty peach and yellow bouquet by Passion Flower which is the epitome of spring comprised of garden roses, tulips, and astilbe.

Hellebore, hyacinth, sweet pea, ranunculus, fritillaria, muscari and lilac - The flowers in this beautiful spring bridal bouquet by Honey of A Thousand Flowers are cottage garden favourites full of old-fashioned charm.

Foraged greenery, daffodils, tulips and white hyacinth and ranunculus made for a wild and cheery bouquet spring bouquet by Jacin Fitzgerald.

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! This pretty little posy is by Sprout Home.

Cherry blossom, astilbe, sweet pea and carnation combine to make this gorgeously feminine and romantic spring bridal bouquet by Of The Flowers.

Moody purple might not be the most obvious choice for a spring wedding but this gorgeous bouquet of dark purple sweet pea with lavender clematis by Mary Lennox has us convinced otherwise.