January 29. 2026.
Your DIY Wedding Flower Guide
What to expect when working with British grown flowers
If you’re reading this in January or February, chances are you’re somewhere in the middle of wedding planning.
You might have booked a venue.
You might still be figuring things out.
And your flowers may or may not be on the list yet.
If that’s you, you’re in the right place.
Is it too late to book wedding flowers with your local flower farm for 2026?
In short — no.
But it is the moment to start.
Flower growers plan many months ahead. By now, late spring and early summer crops are already in the ground, and summer crops are carefully planned and scheduled.
What does that mean for you?
If you’re happy with a fairly flexible colour palette, and we have availability, we can absolutely help.
If you have a very specific colour theme, it may be more limited, simply because those crops were planned months ago. That’s why it’s worth getting in touch now and we can talk through your ideas, check availability, and see how closely we can work to your colour palette.
This way of working is very different to imported flowers, where almost anything is available all year round: any flower, any colour. It’s a bit like seasonal vegetables versus a supermarket shelf, you can buy strawberries in winter, but they’ve travelled a long way to get there.
With seasonal flowers, we work with what’s growing in the fields.
And that’s joy.
Planning ahead for a 2027 wedding
If you’re getting married in 2027, early booking makes an even bigger difference.
It secures your date.
It gives growers time to plan crops around your colour palette.
And it opens up far more possibilities.
How our à la carte service works
Our à la carte service is for couples who love seasonal flowers but don’t need large installations or on-the-day setup.
You choose what you need: bouquets, buttonholes, or buckets of flowers to arrange yourself.
You tell us your colour palette. We work loosely within it, paying particular attention to colours you don’t want.
We don’t promise specific flower varieties, because nature doesn’t work that way.
What we do promise is that your flowers will be fresh, seasonal, and beautiful.
If you’re looking for full design, installations, and a more bespoke service, we offer that too, it’s simply a different way of working.
An À La Carte Wedding: Victoria & Edmund at The Lost Music Hall, Devon
A simple checklist to get you started
Before booking your flowers, it helps to think about a few practical things.
What is your ideal colour palette? What colours you don’t want.
Do you need bouquets and buttonholes, buckets of flowers to arrange yourself, or a mix of both?
How many arrangements are you likely to need?
It can help to jot things down, for example:
Bridal bouquet
Bridesmaid bouquets
Buttonholes
Ceremony arrangements
Reception arrangements
If you are doing your own arrangements, how many stems per arrangement. We’ve included a stem count guide to make this part easier. Each bucket contains 50 stems, which helps take the guesswork out of ordering.
(We’ll also be sharing a simple printable floral planning checklist soon, if you’re someone who likes a list.)
Not local to us?
If you love this approach but aren’t nearby, the Flowers From the Farm directory is a brilliant place to start.
It connects you with flower farmers across the UK who grow seasonal, British flowers and work in a similar way.
A final thought
Wedding flowers don’t need to be complicated.
A bit of planning, a flexible mindset, and flowers that are grown with the seasons can go a long way.
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