Bouquet Recipe: Fall Garden Wedding Bouquet with Earth Color Palette

Having high-quality, expensive, and unique flowers can certainly make it easier to create a beautiful bouquet. However, even with common flowers, as long as they are fresh and healthy, you can still design something lovely with seasonal touches that bring joy!

For this bouquet, I mainly used dahlias, zinnias, celosias, strawflowers, and cosmos—the only flowers blooming in my wild garden and ones that are easy to grow.

Today, I’m sharing this bouquet recipe for a fall garden wedding bouquet with an earthy color palette, along with some tips and tricks.

Material

1. Dahlia (orange/peach/pink) – 8 stems
2. Zinnia (orange/cream/peach) – 12 stems
3. Celosia (silver) – 5 stems
4. Straw flower (peach/white) – 3stems
5. Cosmos (pale yellow) – 5 stems
6. Phalaenopsis Orchid (peach) – 1 stem
7. Rose (peach-small) – 1 stem
8. Panicle Hydrangea (antique pink) – 7 stems
9. Amaranthus (green) – 2 stems
10. Autum Fern (brown) – 2 stems

Tips and Tricks

1. Add Cosmos at the end to give a nice movement and length to the bouquet.
2. When using many different textures and varieties of flowers, keep the colors within a similar range.
3. Panicle hydrangeas are great fillers; just use the ones that have turned pink in late summer/fall, as they hold up well without water.
4. The order I arranged was: 1. hydrangeas, 2. dahlias, 3. zinnias, 4. straw flowers, 5. celosias and amaranthus, 6. orchid and rose, 7. cosmos, and 8. ferns.
5. When I need a Phalaenopsis orchid for weddings, I prefer to purchase orhchid plants instead of cut flowers. As long as you water them occasionally and place them by a window, the flowers will return year after year. This orchid bloom is from a plant I bought a few years ago 🙂
6. Autumn ferns are beautiful with their rich brown color, but you need to choose hardy leaves if you plan to use them in arrangements.

Bouquet Recipe