Wedding Flowers Ideas For Every Season: Most Popular Wedding Flowers For Any Wedding

With so many flowers to choose from, it really helps to know which tried and tested favourites are best for wedding flowers. Wedding florals are a key part of your wedding decor and attire so the best wedding florals have a distinctive flower and a stem that can withstand styling.

As you gather wedding flower ideas, here’s the most popular wedding flowers that make their way into almost every wedding in some form and the list includes some new classics for 2025 and beyond.

With flowers to choose for everything from your bouquet to your reception, here’s your essential list of the most commonly used wedding flowers for weddings in any season, including

• why they’re so popular

• how best to use them in your wedding

• common colour varieties

• when they’re in season

• costs

• cheaper alternatives

All of the beautiful wedding flowers listed are available in multiple seasons meaning they’re used in weddings throughout the year.

Let’s explore how you can use the following most popular wedding flowers in your bouquets, boutenneries and floral arrangements:

1. Peonies

2. Dahlias

3. Roses

4. Anemones

5. Sweet Pea

6. Ranunculus

7. Hydrangeas

8. Tulips

9. Craspedia

10. Snapdragon

11. Queen Anne’s Lace

1. Peonies: Gorgeous peonies have a large striking flower with romantic soft and gently ruffled petals. This top wedding flower comes in gorgeous pink, purple, orange and white tones creating an instant luxurious, stylish look to any floral arrangement. Peonies do have a scent, although it’s sweet, if you want unscented flowers, you’ll want to use an alternative.

However, their beauty comes at a price as peonies are one of the most expensive wedding flowers around so you’ll want to use them sparingly. For cheaper peony alternatives, dahlias, roses and chrysanthemums have large layered flowers that can work just as well.

Dahlias, in particular are a stunning, popular wedding flower because they have an amazing curved petal structure and come in a range of bright colours. When choosing dahlias look at a range of varieties because some are cheaper than others and their flowers come in a range of sizes.

Peonies are only available from April to June so if yours is a winter or fall wedding ranunculus or camellias are great alternatives. For summer, beautiful dahlias are perfect.

2.      Roses: Classic roses are a wedding floral staple because they’re affordable, available year round and come in a huge range of colours and styles. Their robust structure helps to construct floral arrangements, whilst spray roses are great fillers and large garden roses will make your bouquet of decor pop.

A universal symbol of love, roses are found in some form at just about every wedding. If you want to supplement roses with a cheaper flower, lisianthus look just like them but have a lower price point.

3.      Anemones: Perfect for monotone, pared back or striking floral arrangements, anemones are a versatile, contemporary wedding floral with a striking black centre and contrasting colours or white petals.

Their unusual colour combinations mean anemones are guaranteed to make any floral arrangement pop. They are available almost all year and are great value for money. If you decide to use anemones for an August wedding (they’re not available from June to July) make sure they have plenty of water otherwise they will wilt in the heat.

4.      Sweet Pea: Delicate sweet pea are a sweet, little floral that come in whites, pinks and purples. With their long, green stems they’re a brilliant filler flower, popular for wildflower and unstructured floral arrangements. Once cut, sweet pea have a short shelf life of up to 5 days so when they’re in demand they can get pricey.

5.      Ranunculus: Ranunculus are a statement floral that comes in a range of bold colours. Its pretty spiralling layers of petals make it a stunning, exquisite choice for any arrangement.

Ranunculus can be used in everything from floral arrangements for the reception and ceremony to wedding bouquets, adding a romantic, elegant look. They can be pricey so dahlias and cosmos are popular ranunculus alternatives. Available from autumn to spring at a good price point, ranunculus are a favourite for wedding styling.

6.      Hydrangeas: Hydrangeas are another statement wedding flower with incredible bursts of cloud-like pastel-coloured petals in blues, purples, white and pinks. Adding a unique, dramatic and romantic look to wedding decor for the ceremony and reception as well as bouquets, hydrangeas are guaranteed to elevate your wedding flowers.

With such an exciting bloom, it’s not surprising that hydrangeas can be expensive. However, hydrangeas are have a big flower so you won’t need lots of them to make your wedding florals pop. Hydrangeas are available from summer to autumn.

7.      Tulips: The unique shape and range of bright colourways tulips offer make them a favourite for adding pops of colour and interest to wedding flowers.

Tulips come in a wide range of colours and varieties and are great value for money. To add a unique touch to your wedding florals try parrot, fringed or peony tulips which have unusual petal shapes. Tulips are available from winter to early summer

8.      Snapdragon: For 2025, snapdragons’ unusual bloom of stacked, rigid clusters of flowers arranged along the flower stem is a favourite way to add interest to wedding flowers. Available in bright purples, pinks, whites and yellows, snapdragons offer a range of options to create a bold, unique arrangement. Their structure makes snapdragons great for arrangements for the reception but you can also use them to add interest to bouquets.

Although they look pricey, snapdragons are great value for money so they’re a great way to add interest to your wedding flowers. Snapdragons are available all year and are an ideal way to make your wedding florals memorable.

9.      Craspedia: Heralding from Australasia, craspedia are a stunning floral with a single flower on a stiff green stem. The round, bright yellow flower is a vibrant and beautiful wedding flower choice for 2025 and beyond, adding a unique, fresh touch to your wedding bouquet or ceremony and reception florals.

Craspedia can be used fresh or dried and are available year round. The single, wooly-textured flower’s unusual geometric shape gives it a fun feel that looks luxurious although craspedia are actually great value for money. These beautiful yellow wedding flowers can also be purchased dyed in gorgeous jewel or metallic tones if you want to add unique, stunning pops of colour to your wedding flowers.

10.  Queen Anne’s Lace: This wedding flower classic is always trending and it’s no different for 2025 florals. The appeal of Queen Anne’s Lace lies in its clusters of pretty white flowers that make it a perfect filler flower for floral styling.

Available from summer to autumn, Queen Anne’s lace is a beautiful, natural-looking floral that will make your arrangements look luxurious, abundant and stunning. After all the work to choose the right wedding flowers, here’s 10 ways to preserve them once your wedding’s over.

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