A Guide on the Wildflower Wedding Design
Spring has sprung and that means wedding planning has begun! We have a lot of folks reach out to us asking us to help bring their wildflower wedding to life and we absolutely LIVE to create wildflower magic, I mean hello, we run a flower farm in East Tennessee, it’s kind of our job. However, we get a lot of people asking how to exactly accomplish the wildflower look and we thought we would make a simple guide to help you bring your wildflower vision to life. We also want to make a note that a lot of the wildflower looks that people are drawn to are spring wildflower — note that every season is different, so take that into account when planning your wedding. It’s a lot harder to bring in spring flowers into fall, instead of using the seasonal and fresh flowers!
This photo is quite possibly our favorite photo to exit, this was our bride’s bouquet surrounded by her bridesmaids bouquets. Most of these stunning blooms were grown on our farm, Rainbow Roots Floral located in Maryville, Tennessee. Our ranunculus, anemones, daffodils, Icelandic poppies, delphinium, and others truly make it hard to have a favorite flower on the farm. (That’s why we usually have a favorite flower of the week).
Wildflower themes are FLOWER-heavy. This may seem like a no-brainer, but if you truly want your wedding to be wildflower themed, you have to be ready to make this a priority to you. This means allocating a good amount of your budget to florals, because this is how you’re communicating your theme. If you’re wanting a wildflower wedding, you want your guests to feel like they are in the middle of a meadow, so this means focusing on the impact of your tables, opting for a mixture of centerpieces, heavy bud vases, and ikebanas. We PROMISE you it will look good.
When planning, do some research on what flowers will be in season. We want to make sure that your flowers are as farm-fresh as possible, and we want to make sure we are being as financially responsible as we can. Think about it this way, if your favorite flowers are ranunculus and poppies are these are MUST haves for your wedding, it’s a lot more affordable to have your wedding in the spring, when these flowers are in season and we can go outside and cut them versus if we’re trying to find a farm in October to source these from. Your budget can be stretched a lot farther if you think about the seasonality of your favorite flowers.
Some things can be repurposed, and some cannot. We love repurposing items in weddings and we love to help couples get the most out of their budget, but it’s harder for us to repurpose flowers when they have been outside in 92 degree heat, versus a crisp 64 degree spring wedding. So know that the season can also impact your budget and what can and cannot be reused. Also we think about the impact of the items, so sometimes we can repurpose a bridesmaids bouquet if it’s our standard size and will add enough weight to the table, versus smaller, petite bridesmaids won’t give what you want it to give.
We absolutely love the idea of a mono-bloom bouquet or a monochromatic bouquet. A mono-bloom is using one type of bloom for the entire bouquet, versus a monochromatic focuses on using one color, depicted here. We used a base of our greens (pennycress, bluperium, and matricaria).
We absolutely love taking to our couples and figuring out what theme they’re going for and what vision they want to bring to life. With spring right around the corner, gaining another hour of daylight next week, and warmer temperatures, we know that our spring weddings are about to take off. For our 2025 couples, we are so excited about your upcoming weddings and we hope to create a lot more weddings that look like this and feel this whimsical and ethereal. To 2026 couples, what are you waiting for? We hope that this post made you fall in love with wildflower weddings just as much as we have!