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Wedding Flowers Ideas

If you're looking for wedding flowers ideas did you know that each flower has a meaning, so you might want to choose your flowers from among the 300 here.

Selecting flowers is not just about what's pretty, flowers have a meaning too.

Take a look at some of the most popular flowers and what they mean. Make a note of the ones that you like the meaning of and enquire at a florists to see if they have some you can look at.


Flowers - Plants and their Meaning

Wedding Flowers Ideas

  • ABUTILON - Meditation
  • ACACIA (rose/white) - Elegance, friendship
  • ACACIA (yellow) - Secret love
  • ACANTHUS - Artifice, fine arts
  • ACHILLEA - War
  • ACONITE - Lustre, misanthropy
  • ADDER'S TONGUE - Jealousy
  • ADONIS - Sad memories
  • AGRIMONY - Gratitude
  • ALLSPICE - Compassion
  • ALMOND (common) - Indiscretion, perfidy
  • ALOE - Grief, devotion, religious superstition
  • ASTOREMERIA - Devotion
  • ALTHEA - Consumed by love
  • ALYSSYM (sweet) - Excellence
  • AMARANTH (coxcomb) - Affectation, pretension
  • AMARANTH (globe) - Constant, unchangeable
  • AMARANTH - Foppery, immortality, pretension
  • AMARYLLIS - Beautiful, timid, proud
  • AMBROSIA - Love returned
  • ANEMONE - Fading hope
  • ANGELICA - Inspiration, magic
  • APOCYNUM - Falsehood, figment, I doubt you
  • APPLE BLOSSOM - Preference
  • ARBOR VITAE (American) - Immortality
  • ARBOR VITAE - I never change, live for me
  • ARBUTUS - You only do I love
  • ASCLEPIAS - Sorrowful remembrance
  • ASH - Prudence, With me you are safe
  • ASMINE (night-blooming) - Love's vigil
  • ASPEN - Excess of sensibility, fear
  • ASTER (China) - Afterthoughts, love of variety
  • AURICULA (scarlet) - Pride
  • AURICULA - Painting, wealth is not always happiness
  • AZALEA - Your blush has won me

Wedding Flowers Ideas

  • BACHELOR'S BUTTON - Devotion, hope, love
  • BALM - Social intercourse, sympathy
  • BALSAM - Impatience
  • BAYLEAF - I change but in death
  • BABY'S BREATH - Pure of heart
  • BAYBERRY - Discipline
  • BEGONIA - Deformity
  • BELLFLOWER - Constant
  • BETONY - Surprise
  • BITTERSWEET - Platonic love
  • BLUEBELL - Constant
  • BLUEBOTTLE - Delicacy
  • BLUETS - Contentment
  • BORAGE - Talent
  • BRAMBLE - Holiness
  • BROOM - Humility
  • BRYONY - Prosperity
  • BURDOCK - Importunity
  • BUTTERCUP - Riches
  • BUTTERFLY WEED - Let me go
  • CACTUS - Grandeur, warmth
  • CALLA LILY - Magnificent beauty
  • CALYCANTHUS - Benevolence
  • CAMELLIA (Red) - Excellence
  • CAMELLIA (White) - Loveliness
  • CHAMOMILE - Energy
  • CANDYTUFT - Indifference
  • CANTERBURY BELLS - Gratitude
  • CARDINAL FLOWER - Distinction
  • CARNATION - Fidelity, love
  • CARNATION PINK - Woman's love
  • CATALPA - Beware of flirts
  • CATCHFLY - Constant friendship
  • CATTLEYA - Mature charms
  • CEDAR - I live but for thee
  • CELANDINE - Joys to come
  • CENTAURY - Delicacy
  • CEREUS (night-blooming) - Transient beauty
  • CHERRY BLOSSOM - Spiritual beauty
  • CHESTNUT BLOSSOM - Do me justice
  • CHICKWEED - Rendezvous
  • CHICORY - Frugality
  • CHRYSANTHEMUM (Chinese) - Loveliness
  • CHRYSANTHEMUM (red) - I love
  • CHRYSANTHEMUM (white) - Truth
  • CINERARIA - Always delighted
  • CISTUS - Popular
  • CITRON - Natured beauty
  • CLEMATIS - Mental Beauty
  • CLIANTHUS - Self-seeking, worldliness
  • CLOTBUR - Rudeness
  • CLOVER (four-leafed) - Be mine
  • CLOVER (white) - Think of me
  • CLOVES - Dignity
  • COLTSFOOT - Justice shall be done
  • COLUMBINE - Folly
  • CONVOLVULUS - Uncertainty
  • CORCHORUS - Return quickly
  • COREOPSIS - Always cheerful
  • CORIANDER - Hidden worth
  • CORN BLOSSOM - Riches
  • CORN COCKLE - Peerless and proud
  • CORNEL - Success crowned you
  • CORNFLOWER - Delicacy, refinement
  • COWSLIP - You are my divinity
  • COXCOMB - Foppery
  • CRABAPPLE BLOSSOM - Irritability
  • CRANBERRY - Cure for heartache
  • CREEPING CEREUS - Modest genius
  • CRESS - Power, stability
  • CROCUS - Mirth
  • CROWN IMPERIAL - Pride of birth
  • CURRANT - Your frown will destroy me
  • CUSCUTA - Meanness
  • CYCLAMEN - Diffidence
  • DAFFODIL - Unrequited love, regard
  • DAHLIA - Forever thine
  • DAISY (colored) - Beauty
  • DAISY (Michaelmas) - Farewell
  • DAISY (white wild) - I will think of it
  • DAISY - Innocence
  • DANDELION - Love's oracle
  • DAPHNE - Fame, glory
  • DARNEL - Vice
  • DEW PLANT - Serenade
  • DIOSMA - Your simple elegance charms me
  • DITTANY OF CRETE (white) - Passion
  • DOCK - Patience
  • DODDER OF THYME - Baseness
  • DOGBANE - Falsehood
  • DOG ROSE - Pleasure
  • DOGWOOD - Forgetfulness, love undiminished
  • EGLANTINE - Genius, I wound to heal, poetry, talent
  • ELDER - Compassion, zealousness
  • ENDIVE - Frugality
  • ESCHSCHOLTZIA - Do not refuse me
  • EUPATORIUM - Delay
  • EYEBRIGHT - Cheer up
  • ENNEL - Strength, worthy of praise

Wedding Flowers Ideas

  • FERN - Fascination, magic, sincerity
  • FIG - Argument, I keep my secret
  • FILBERT - Reconciliation
  • FIR - Time
  • FLAX - I feel your kindness
  • FLEUR DE LIS - Message
  • FLOWER OF AN HOUR - Delicate beauty
  • FLOWERING ALMOND - Hope
  • FORGET ME NOT- Constancy, true love
  • FOUR LEAFED CLOVER - Be mine
  • FOUR O'CLOCK - Timidity
  • FOXGLOVE - Youth
  • FOXTAIL GRASS - Sporting
  • FUCHSIA - Confiding love
  • FUMITORY - Spleen
  • FURZE - Love for all occasions
  • GARDEN DAISY - Share your sentiments
  • GARDENIA - Refinement
  • GENTIAN (closed) - Sweet be thy dreams
  • GENTIAN (fringed) - I look to heaven
  • GERANIUM (dark) - Melancholy
  • GERANIUM (fish) - Disappointed expectation
  • GERANIUM (horseshoe) - Stupidity
  • GERANIUM (Ivy) - Favour
  • GERANIUM (lemon) - Unexpected meeting
  • GERANIUM (nutmeg) - Expected meeting
  • GERANIUM (oak) - True friendship
  • GERANIUM (pencilled) - Ingenuity
  • GERANIUM (rose) - Preference
  • GERANIUM (scarlet) - Comforting
  • GERANIUM (silver leafed) - Recall
  • GERANIUM (wild) - Steadfast piety
  • GERANIUM - Gentility, peaceful mind
  • GILLYFLOWER - Bonds of affection
  • GLADIOLUS - Ready-armed
  • GOLDENROD - Encouragement
  • GOOSEBERRY - Anticipation
  • GRANDIFLORA - High-souled
  • GRAPE (wild) - Charity, mirth
  • GRASS - Submission
  • HANDFLOWER - Warning
  • HAREBELL - Submission
  • HARLEQUIN - Laugh at trouble
  • HAWKWEED - Quick-sighted
  • HAWTHORN - Hope
  • HAZEL - Reconciliation
  • HEARTSEASE - Think of me
  • HEATH - Solitude
  • HELENIUM - Tears
  • HELIOTROPE - Eagerness, joy
  • HELLEBORE - Devotion
  • HEMLOCK - You cause my death
  • HEMP - Fate
  • HIBISCUS - Delicate beauty
  • HOLLY - Domestic happiness
  • HOLLYHOCK - Ambition
  • HONEY FLOWER - Love sweet and secret
  • HONEYSUCKLE (coral) - Fidelity
  • HONEYSUCKLE - Bonds of love
  • HOP - Injustice
  • HORNBEAM - Ornament
  • HORSE CHESTNUT - Luxury
  • HOUSELEEK - Vivacity
  • HOUSTONIA - Contentment
  • HYACINTH (purple) - Jealousy
  • HYACINTH (white) - Modest loveliness
  • HYACINTH - Constancy
  • HYDRANGEA - Boaster
  • HYSSOP - Cleanliness

  • ICE PLANT - Your looks freeze me
  • IRIS (German) - Aflame
  • IRIS - Message Eloquence
  • IVY - Fidelity Friendship, marriage, wedded love

  • JACOB'S LADDER - Come down
  • JASMINE (cape) - I am too happy
  • JASMINE (Carolina) - Separation
  • JASMINE (Indian) - I attach myself to you
  • JASMINE (Spanish) - Sensuality
  • JASMINE (white) - Amiability
  • JASMINE (yellow) - Grace and elegance
  • JASMINE - I am too happy
  • JONQUIL - I desire a return of your affection
  • JUDAS TREE - Unbelief

  • KINGCUP - Riches

  • LABURNUM - Forsaken, pensive beauty
  • LADY'S SLIPPER - Capricious beauty
  • LADY'S SMOCK - Ardor
  • LADY'S THIMBLE - Submission
  • LADY'S TRESSES - Bewitching grace
  • LANTANA - I am unyielding
  • LARCH - Boldness
  • LAUREL (ground) - Perseverance
  • LAUREL (mountain) - Ambition
  • LAUREL - Perfidy
  • LAURESTINE - I die if neglected
  • LAVENDER - Acknowledgment
  • LEMON - Discretion
  • LETTUCE - Cold hearted
  • LICHEN - Solitude
  • LILAC (purple) - First love
  • LILAC (white) - Youthful innocence
  • LILY (water) - Purity of heart
  • LILY (calla) - Maiden modesty, beauty
  • LILY (day) - Coquetry
  • LILY (frog) - Disgust
  • LILY (tiger) - I dare you to love me
  • LILY (white) - Purity and sweetness
  • LILY (yellow) - Flirtation
  • LILY OF THE VALLEY - Return of happiness
  • LINDEN - Conjugal love
  • LIVE OAK - Liberty
  • LIVERWORT - Confidence
  • LOBELIA - Arrogance
  • LOCUST - Affection beyond the grave
  • LONDON PRIDE - Frivolity
  • LOTUS - Estranged love
  • LOVE IN A MIST - Perplexity
  • LOVE LIES - Hopeless but not heartless
  • LUCERNE - Life
  • LUPINE (rose) - Fanciful
  • LUPINE (white) - Always happy
  • LUPINE - Voraciousness

  • MAGNOLIA - Nobility
  • MISTLETOE - Kiss me
  • MOSS - Charity
  • MYRTLE - Love

  • NARCISSUS - Stay as Sweet as You Are
  • NASTURTIUM - Conquest, Victory in Battle

  • OLEANDER - Caution
  • ORANGE BLOSSOM - Eternal Love
  • ORCHID - Beautiful Lady
  • ORCHID (Cattleya) - Charm

  • PALM LEAVES - Victory/Success
  • PEONY - Happy Life & Marriage
  • PETUNIA - You Sooth Me
  • PINE - Hope
  • POPPY (general) - Imagination
  • POPPY (red) - Pleasure
  • POPPY (white) - Consolation
  • POPPY (yellow) - Success
  • PRIMROSE (evening) - Constant
  • PRIMROSE - Can't Live Without You

Wedding Flower Ideas

  • ROSE (bridal) - Happy Love
  • ROSE (dark crimson) - Mourning
  • ROSE (hibiscus) - Delicate Beauty
  • ROSE (leaf) - You May Hope
  • ROSE (pink) - Perfect Happiness
  • ROSE (red) - Love, I Love You
  • ROSE (tea) - I'll Remember Always
  • ROSE (thornless) - Love at First Sight
  • ROSE (white) - Innocence and Purity
  • ROSE (white & red mix) - Unity
  • ROSE (white dried) - Death
  • ROSE (yellow) - Try to Care
  • ROSEBUD - A Heart Innocent of Love
  • ROSEBUD (red) - Pure and Lovely
  • ROSEBUD (white) - Girlhood
  • ROSEBUD (moss) - Confessions of Love
  • ROSES (bouquet of mature blooms) - Gratitude
  • ROSES (single full bloom) - I Love You

  • SMILAX - Loveliness
  • SNAPDRAGON - Gracious Lady
  • SPIDER FLOWER - Elope with Me
  • STEPHANOTIS - Happiness in Marriage
  • STOCK - You'll Always Be Beautiful to Me
  • SWEETPEA - Thank You for a Lovely Time

  • TULIP (general) - Perfect Lover
  • TULIP (red) - Believe Me
  • TULIP (variegated) - Beautiful Eyes
  • TULIP (yellow) - There's Sunshine in Your Smile

  • VIOLET - Modesty
  • VIOLET (blue) - I'll Always Be True
  • VIOLET (white) - Let's Take a Chance

  • ZINNIA (magenta) - Lasting affection
  • ZINNIA (mixed) - Thinking of an absent friend
  • ZINNIA (scarlet) - Constancy
  • ZINNIA (white) - Goodness
  • ZINNIA (yellow) - Daily Remembrance

Diane Somner
Beauty Advice for the Natural You