On many occasions I’ve chatted to brides about how to create fragrance in their wedding flowers. If fragrance is a key element to your wedding flowers then I hope you might find some useful tips in this post.
One bride that immediately springs to mind was Nancy. She had a real desire to choose flowers that would give her fragrance and link in with her country style wedding theme. You can see me here, loading her centrepieces into the van.
Nancy and Oliver chose to hold their wedding reception at Alverston Pastures, just on the outskirts of Straford Upon Avon in Warwickshire. This restored barn is situated in idyllic rural countryside making it a unique wedding venue.
Country Style Wedding Flowers
Nancy really wanted the fragrance of the flowers to fill this wonderfully authentic wedding space, giving you a feeling of the garden coming into the barn.
With our guidance she choose stocks which have the most amazing delicate fragrance, freesias which have a very pretty summery smell, eucalyptus leaves and rosemary which both give you that lovely natural herbal fragrance.
All of her table centrepieces were arranged in galvanised buckets to tie in with the country theme. Boy did they smell good, they were fantastic even before we had left the building. The flowers’ wonderful natural fragrance really filled this large space. She was delighted with them and even wrote to us afterwards telling us she could smell the flowers as soon as she entered the room.
Fragrance in Your Wedding Bouquet
For the bouquets we used roses, freesias and eucalyptus in very natural hand tied posies. Although very often commercially grown roses don’t give you much fragrance, freesias and eucalyptus certainly will.
Other fragrant flowers to consider using include peonies, lilies (although do be careful these can be overpowering in the summer and set off some peoples hay fever), lavender, hyacinths, nerine and lilac.
If fragrance is important to you, don’t forget to mention it to your florist at your consultation.
