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Peonies: Current Wedding Trends

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Peonies are recently the perfect touch for a modern early summer wedding! They embody love and prosperity with the good omen of good fortune and a happy marriage, making it a perfect choice for brides to use on their special day. Unfortunately, Peonies aren’t available all year long so it’s best to get them between May and June making them a perfect choice for spring-summer weddings! It can last through all types of weather conditions, meaning even if your wedding day will be hot or windy, you can count on your peonies to keep looking beautiful. Peonies are often best on their own but they can be mixed with other spring flowers to create a dramatic but chic arrangement. Here are some of the top wedding trends with these beautiful flowers!

  • Floating Peonies: Since it has such a lush, dome shape bloom, making peonies look effortless and stunning in this arrangement. Place big blossoms with stems cut an inch below the bloom and float them in a considerable sized bowl filled with tepid water, but remember, less is more!
  • Bouquets: This type of flower will add a lovely, fragrant touch to your bouquet. With peonies large variety of color choices, it will fit any wedding theme you have planned. From hot pink peonies to give a more colorful and bold look, to soft pink and white blooms for more of a romantic and classic feel. Peonies bouquets can also be minimal since they stand on their own very well but whimsical with other flowers. It can also be arranged with accents like a satin ribbon or hemp wrapping these flowers up for the perfect finishing look.
  • Table Centerpieces: Everyone loves looking at the big ruffles of the peonies blooms and brides love that it comes in many different hues to match their vision. From a range of soft and pretty to bold and seductive to traditional and feminine. A few blooms in a simple arrangement can instantly take you table to the next level! Peonies’ large heads are ideal to feature them as centerpieces. In addition, you can make them look exotic with the Coral Charm variety and adding other assortments of yellow and bright pink flowers to the arrangement.
  • Wedding Cakes: The heads of the Peonies are big with vibrant colors, has a well-defined shape, and great staying power making it a great decor for wedding cakes. Whether it is peonies sugar blooms or real blooms, it gives you a beautiful texture and color to your confection.