Wedding Flowers

Please refer to our wedding flower guide, which details our current price list. Please remember this cost includes our professional florists’ time to assemble and arrange each item. If you would like to take care of the floral arrangements yourself, prices would differ. Contact our wedding team – we’d be delighted to have a chat and provide more information.

They are anything you want them to be. There is no such thing as archetype flowers for a wedding. The blooms you want, the type of arrangements you desire – it’s all down to your personal preferences. Some wedding flowers might be bold, grandiose and structured statements. Others might be more natural and modest. Whatever is right for you is right, full-stop!

Again, there are no rules. The answer lies in your preferences and potentially your budget. Usually, the bride carries a bouquet, and there may be some flower arrangements at the ceremony. From there, options could include:

• Floral hairpieces and/or small bouquets for the flower girl and bridesmaids
• Boutonnieres for the groom and his best men and/or page boy
• Wrist corsages for the mothers of the bride and groom
• Floral arrangements at the reception
• Wedding cake flowers

There are many ways you can save money when deciding on flowers for your wedding. You can have fewer arrangements by choosing just a bridal bouquet and maybe some small arrangements for the ceremony or reception.

You could just purchase the flowers from a florist and manage the actual arrangements yourself. Why not turn this into a lovely bonding session with some closest friends and family members? Bubbles and bouquet making!

If allowed, you can gather wildflowers and foliage to add to your purchased flowers. This will help you make more arrangements.

Arbour Blooms has been a leading figure in the Irish flower industry for several decades. We have a dedicated wedding team that is exclusively responsible for looking after our wedding clients. They will assist you from start to finish and make the process smooth, enjoyable and efficient. When you buy wedding flowers from Arbour, our dedicated support team will make sure that when it comes to blooms, your special day is smooth and successful.

Start by listing the flowers you love most. With these blooms in mind, think about the wedding party outfits and what will work best. If you’re having difficulty creating a list, why not search for ideas on Pinterest? You can create a mood board and see what images you naturally gravitate towards most. Another great idea is to chat with your professional wedding florist. We know all the right questions to ask to get you to the perfect blooms!

May in the Northern Hemisphere is early spring, and what a spectacular time of year for flowers! Global warming is causing slight shifts in seasons, making it difficult for the industry to say that such-and-such a bloom will most definitely be in season by early May. However, as a general rule of thumb, you can expect to choose from the following spring wedding flowers:

• Tulips
• Lilacs
• Peonies
• Irises
• Rhododendrons
• Azaleas
• Hydrangeas
• Bluebells
• Roses

Wedding traditions vary across cultures. It is believed women carried bouquets in ancient Roman times to symbolise fertility, faithfulness and new life. Some say flowers have been used over the centuries for more practical reasons – to hide the smell of body odours back when we could not wash as frequently! Throwing the bouquet supposedly began in England, where it was considered to bring good luck.

Here in Ireland (and across Scandinavia and Ukraine), female wedding guests would typically forage wild flowers and create a bridal headpiece, which was used as an alternative to a wedding veil.