If you’re having a wedding that calls for pink flowers, look no further. This is your fuss-free guide to picking out beautiful pink flowers, uncommon and common, for perfect wedding bouquets or arrangements.
Pink is a very versatile color, because it is made by mixing red and white. Anything that complements red or white will also complement pink. This range includes oranges, purples, yellows, and especially deep, dark reds and greens. Use the suggested flowers that follow each description (the last sentence) by picking them out in complementary colors to pink.
TULIP
Hardy yet representative of elegance, the tulip is a wonderful choice for the more modern wedding. Tulips are thought to represent endless, loyal love. With their upward bell shape and long stems, what’s not to love about the tulip? Available in many colors, the tulip gives the bride and groom lots of room for variety, but there’s no doubt that the pink tulip is quite special. Tulips look great with ranunculus, hydrangeas, lilies, roses, gypsophila, and other filler which can either make the arrangement ‘cascade’ or be ’rounded.’
CATTLEYA ORCHID
Don’t let the name fool you. The cattleya orchid looks almost nothing like its more common and famous sisters. This unique flower has pointed petals, usually five, that are naturally arranged in a star shape. In the middle protrudes a bell, much like on a daffodil. The cattleya’s petals are also slightly frilly, making this pick a great choice for more traditional weddings. The cattleya orchid is available in pinks, deep reds, purples, yellows, and whites, but the bell may differ in color (but it will be naturally complementary). Arrange cattleyas together with lilacs, ivy, roses, stephanotis, anthuriam, stargazer lilies, or sweet pea.
FRESSIA
Beautiful star-shaped flowers, fressia is built much like a gladiolus: it has a stalk with many flowers. Fressia are less known (perhaps due to the fact that there’s another flower with a close-sounding name, freesia?) but it is nonetheless a gorgeous sight to behold in wonderfully planned arrangements. They come in all sorts of colors, but pink and yellow are the most common. Fressia are great with gypsophila, white roses, orchids, delphinium, gardenias, mango calla lilies, or ranunculus.
RANUNCULUS
With all the arrangements that call for ranunculus, it’s high time that you consider it as a very traditional choice for weddings. The ranunculus is shaped like a very wide, many-petaled rose. It is quite thick, with a contrasting color in the middle (usually a hue of green). Pink ranunculus are especially beautiful because they look very soft and feminine. Try this beautiful flower with roses, baby’s breath, sweet pea, mimosas, ivy, deep purple stock, lilacs, peonies, or hyacinth.
PEONY
The word for peony in Chinese means “most beautiful,” and this little flower is exactly that (and the bride, too!). Peonies come in many colors, but they usually range in pinks, deep reds, and purples. Peonies have lacy, almost frilly edges that make them great choices for arrangements that call for flowers that soften a harsher effect. Peonies are wonderful with roses, green hydrangeas, lilacs, lily of the valley, nerine, or euphorbia fulgens.
TUBEROSE
Tuberose is a classic in many wedding arrangements and bouquets, but that doesn’t mean it’ll make your wedding any less special. Tuberose comes in a range of colors, from the pinkest pink to the whitest white. Tuberose also has a very strong, heady fragrance…no need for your own! It’s basically a long stem with leaves at the very bottom and a cluster of flowers at the top. Tuberose is great with calla lilies, cymbidium orchids, freesia, eucalyptus, spray roses, or sweet pea.
GLADIOLUS
It’s very uncommon to see gladiolus in wedding bouquets, but they look great in them nonetheless. Gladiolus comes in so many different colors that it’s impossible to describe them all. Pink is one of my personal favorites, along with reds and blues. The flowers line up along the stem, which makes for a very beautiful bouquet that looks like fireworks are exploding. Gladiolus are great with more rounded flowers to even out the shaping of the bouquet or arrangement. This might call for hydrangeas, waxflower, nerine, agapanthus, delphinium, ivy, spray roses, stock, or fern.
There are many more pink flower choices out there, but you can definitely use any of the above to mix and match your perfect bouquet. Whether you like it cascading or round, pink flowers give soft elegance and timelessness to your special day.
