Weddingbee Blog

(Forget-me-nots, from here)

I fell in love with these wildflowers when I was wandering through a Botanical Garden in Madison, WI. I saw them out of the corner of my eye in a section of the garden filled with little tiny flowers, and I audibly gasped. They are such wonderfully colorful, delicate flowers with an equally fantastic name. And they have our color scheme built in - blue and yellow! I really wanted to incorporate these flowers into our wedding, but alas, as wildflowers, it can be difficult to predict exactly when they will be flowering and it’s too risky to base our whole flower scheme around them (even though I was completely willing to; I love them that much).

They are also quite small, so we would need a whole lot of them. I’m still holding out hope that at the last minute we’ll be able to get some and incorporate the flowers somewhere, as well as take advantage of their clever name.

For those of us with blue color schemes, it seems there aren’t too many true blue flowers in nature. Once we had put the Forget-Me-Nots on the back burner, I started looking into other blue flowers. Some of the flowers I’ve found are:

(blue irises)

(light blue hydrangea)

(dark blue hydrangea)

(blue delphinium/larkspur)

(blue muscari)

(blue hyacinth)

(cornflower, also known as blue Bachelor’s Button)

(blue Nigella, also called Love-In-A-Mist)

There are so many beautiful blue flowers! Most blue flowers, though, have a tendency towards purple, so you’ll have to be careful about ordering them, or be very specific with your florist that you want blue and not bluish-purple flowers. These are all so pretty, I wish I could use them all in my bouquet… too bad there are no blue peonies!

These were just a sampling of what I found (and could identify) in searching for blue flowers - do you have any other favorite blue flowers? Am I missing any obvious ones that would be good to use in a bouquet or decorations? What other flowers are you using with your blue ones?