Spring Wedding Ideas
Spring means love is in the air
Ideas for spring wedding flowers, styles and venues to make your spring wedding a memorable night for you and your guests.
Weather for the spring months can be anything within the ranges of snow-falling-cold and summer-heat-wave hot. It is a good idea to plan for a 20 degree day, so have backup umbrellas for rain and check your wedding venue is air-conditioned if a sudden heat wave hits.
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Venues for a spring wedding
- Boathouses
- Gardens
- Venues that showcase a stunning sunset, golf clubs, rowing clubs, surf lifesaving clubs, and venues with a balcony.
- Race courses if you choose a race day theme.
- Large estate for a garden party, ideas include Campapse House and Quot Quotta.
Clothes for a spring wedding
As the wedding is being held during a time when weather can be hotter than usual, or colder than usual, brides are warned to include a shrug, jacket or wrap for themselves and their bridesmaids, when picking dresses for the day. Parasols look lovely in the wedding colour palette for the bride and bridesmaids. This will help if the day is warmer than expected and the bridesmaids do not want to reapply sunscreen over their make-up.
If you choose a garden party, afternoon theme a less formal dress code can apply for the bridal party and guests. The groom and groomsmen should be attired in full three piece suits, however you can suggest your guests be more relaxed, or suggest suits and ties. Bridesmaids and wedding guests can include floral themes in their attire and can play with the pastel colours. Hats can be encouraged for guests, especially if you have chosen a race day theme (see below).
Strapless gowns are popular for this spring. If you choose a strapless gown, keep something warm in your bridal emergency bag, to keep you warm inbetween photos, or while waiting for the reception. This applies for the bride and the bridesmaids. Even though it is a sweet wedding party photo for the bridesmaids to wear the groomsmen's jacket, the dresses should not be hidden with a men's jacket for long. A shrug, wrap or jacket matching the dress will avoid any risk of hyperthermia while getting the perfect bridal party photo.
Food and drinks for a spring wedding
- Cocktail food and drinks (see race day and garden wedding themes below).
- Devonshire tea (see boathouse wedding theme below).
- roast lamb
- light meals, move away from the heavy winter comfort meals. This will encourage people to keep dancing the night away with lighter stomachs.
Extra touches for a spring wedding
- Extra umbrellas . Guests like to pretend that it just won't rain on a wedding day no matter what the BOM states. To keep your guest's heads and clothes dry have a bunch of umbrellas on hand for guests if they need to make their way from the ceremony to the reception in the rain. This helps if you have a marquee for your wedding to keep guests dry as they wander around.
- Wedding Budlighting . Because the sun sets much earlier in winter there is more opportunity to create a winter wonderland with gorgeous budlighting. eBay has a huge range of fairy light strands to match your wedding colour theme and decorating ideas. There are rattan balls , flower lights and more.
- Candles . Add candles to provide a gorgeous mood lighting to set all your guests in a romantic glow. Use candles to light the walkway up to the entrance of your ceremony venue and your reception venue. Use candles on each table (safely of course) and to offer soft lighting in the bathrooms.
- Wedding Sky Lanterns (eBay) . Allow your guests to send off good wishes to the newly married couple by writing on a sky lantern and then lighting and sending it off into the sky. This offers a gorgeous nightscape and a romantic intimate feel to the evening. To create the right effect try and find one for each guest. (Set alight safely).
- Decorate with blossom. Springtime brings with it beautiful cherry blossoms. Decorate your wedding reception, and ceremony, with large branches of blossoms. Cherry blossoms hold symbolic value in Chinese and Japanese culture. They symbolise love and the fleeting of life. Perfect to capture the strong bond you and your partner feel for each other, and the realisation that life and love should be celebrated.
Spring wedding flowers
Spring is an excellent time for many of the popular wedding flowers, tulips, roses, daffodils, daisies, gorgeous cherry blossoms, lavendar, sweetpea, lily of the valley, magnolia, gladiolus, lilac, camellia, iris and jasmine.
Check with your florist which flowers will be in season during spring. Florists can usually source your favourite flower no matter the season, however that specialty sourcing may come with a specialty price. Picking a seasonal flower makes it easier to ensure the flowers will be ready, blooming perfectly, and within your budget for your wedding day.
Some popular spring flowers include tulips, daffodils, iris, and poppies (late winter to early spring). Read what symbolic meaning these flower types hold .
Spring wedding themes
- Race Day Wedding Theme . Encourage every lady to pull out their racing day hat and finest dress. You can include a fashion show and best dressed awards, (bride can decide the winner as she is of course the most beautiful on the day). Decorate with roses (think the Melbourne Cup rose garden). If your wedding falls on one of the big race days during the racing carnival then hold a sweep with your guests.
- Garden Party Wedding Theme. With all the beautiful blooming bulb flowers, the sun setting later and the warm days. Enjoy some croquet, bocce or quoits. If your wedding includes children, organise some garden party games including three-legged races, egg-and-spoon races, and lawn tennis. Garden party weddings can be held as a high tea affair, or cocktail party. A mid-afternoon party with high tea followed by warmed cocktail food as the sun sets is a lovely idea. Include some budlighting to illuminate the garden in the evening. candles can be lit around the garden to create a warm glow. Decorate with vintage birdcages, flowers (real or fake depending on budget and setting), parasols, lanterns, candles, bulb flowers in pots, white lawn furniture and swans and ducks if you're keen to recreate an expansive ye olde English summer house?
- Boathouse Wedding. Hold your wedding at a boathouse, with devonshire tea. Organise for the boathouse to lend boats to keen guests for a light row in the river. Guests can enjoy some ye olde charm of a boathouse setting with warmed scones and jam and cream.