Red Wedding Flowers
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Red florals provide some serious punch, regardless of the shade chosen. Merlot has been a popular shade in recent years, true red gives off lots of energy, and rusty tones can be country rustic or desert chic. Keep reading for more inspiration about how to use red flowers in your wedding arrangements.
As the saying goes, “roses are red…” and red roses certainly are a favorite, but there are so many more options available. Explore a list of gorgeous red flowers in various hues.
Statement flowers tend to steal the show within a floral arrangement. They are often large in size, and tend to be a round shape. So if you want to make a shade of red your dominant color, use statement flowers in red to achieve that look.
Scroll through the photos below to find some red hued statement flower options.
Photographs sourced from fiftyflowers.com
The flowers I call “secondary flowers” are typically smaller in size than the statement blooms and sometimes they are smaller in price as well. While not quite as visually commanding as the statement flowers, these blooms play an important role in composing an arrangement.
Secondary flowers that are red include the flowers below.
Photographs sourced from fiftyflowers.com
Filler flowers are often the textural element in a floral arrangement. These flowers tend to have tiny to small blooms in a spray or cluster shape. Popular filler flowers available in red hues can be found in the photo gallery here.
Photographs sourced from fiftyflowers.com
Height flowers are not necessary for every type of arrangement (i.e. a Bridal bouquet may not need this shape of flower). As the name suggests, height flowers are taller and are either “spike shaped” or branching blooms. These types of flowers are often used to create height and drama, especially if the arrangement needs to be on a larger scale. Use of height flowers can help carry the color out to the edges of the arrangement.
Below are a few red height flowers that are available.
Photographs sourced from fiftyflowers.com
Red is a bold color choice representing intense love and passion. This vibrancy can be somewhat challenging to utilize well, as in a way that is not too overwhelming. However, red can be tempered to achieve a stunning result. One solution is to use a variation or tone of red such as burgundy or berry shades.
Because red hues are so intense, they pair very well with certain other colors. When deciding upon your wedding colors, you have the option of choosing a monochromatic palette, an analogous palette or a complimentary palette.
A monochromatic color palette would include all red flowers of either the same shade or in various shades. A very popular example in recent years is burgundy and blush, which includes light (blush) and dark (burgundy) shades of red.
An analogous color palette includes hues that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. Analogous colors for red are orange hues and purple hues.
A complimentary color palette includes colors on the opposite side of the color wheel, which for red is the color green.
Some more nuanced color palettes which include shades of red can be achieved by tapping into the secondary and tertiary complimentary colors, such as blue, yellow, and the various shades of those hues.
If you have clicked on any of the links in this article so far, you were take to the website FiftyFlowers.com. I have used this bulk flower company for many years now and consider it the best flower market for DIY couples. They consistently offer the most affordable prices for flowers (available to those without a business license or wholesale account). I also regularly use their website for initial design planning and pricing research. To top it all off, they ship the flowers directly to your door!
If you are researching red wedding flower options, you can search the “wedding color” tab as a great starting place, even if you plan to use a florist. But if you want to DIY the flowers for your wedding or other event, I can’t recommend them enough.
However, if sustainability and decreasing your carbon footprint is a priority of yours, please realize that Fifty Flowers (and most other online flower retailers I’ve seen) use large scale flowers farms in distant countries, such as Ecuador.
Using local, or at least American Grown flowers is a way to lower your carbon footprint, support American Farmers and source some truly special seasonal blooms for your floral designs. If this is important to you, I recommend researching local farms in your area on the Slow flowers Directory. American Flower Farming and floristry as a whole has been experiencing a resurgence in recent years similar to the farm-to-table efforts in the food and restaurant industries. The Slow Flower Directory allows you to search for farmers in your area and provides websites and/or contact information for member businesses with compatible values.
