A colourful June wedding in the Peak District

June is one of my favourite months for wedding flowers. The gardens are bursting into life and there is such a beautiful range of seasonal blooms available. Daisy and Jack’s early June wedding in the Peak District was the perfect example of how joyful, colourful and relaxed seasonal wedding flowers can be.

Sometimes, you get a flower brief that just feels perfect. Daisy and Jack wanted colour, movement and texture from their wedding flowers and that is exactly what we created together.

A bridal bouquet inspired by early June flowers

Daisy’s bridal bouquet was a real celebration of early June wedding flowers. Soft pink peonies were the stars of the show, paired with frilly orlaya, pops of blue cornflowers and vibrant orange geum.

She knew she did not want anything too structured, so I used soft blue sweet peas to add gentle movement and a relaxed, garden gathered feel. The Icelandic poppies this year have been spectacular and I was able to include creamy white and yellow toned stems throughout the bouquet. Not only do they look beautiful, they have the most incredible scent and are perfect for a wild, natural wedding flower style.

All of the flowers were grown here in the Peak District or British grown. Using seasonal, locally grown June flowers meant no air miles, no imports and wedding flowers that truly reflected the landscape around us.

DIY wedding flowers with a Flower Shower

The rest of Daisy and Jack’s wedding flowers were created as part of a DIY ‘Flower Shower’. This is one of my favourite ways to work with couples who want to be hands on with their flowers but still feel supported.

A Flower Shower is a mini workshop held the day before the wedding. I arrive with buckets of seasonal stems and all the essentials needed to make bridesmaid bouquets, buttonholes and statement arrangements such as milk churns. It is a really special way to spend time with friends and family before the wedding and it often becomes a core memory of the whole weekend.

Bridesmaid bouquets, buttonholes and personal touches

The three bridesmaid bouquets mirrored the colours in Daisy’s bridal bouquet. We went for a ‘sisters not twins’ approach so that each bouquet felt individual while still sitting beautifully together.

Buttonholes are always a little fiddly, but after some guidance everyone got stuck in and created lovely, natural designs. Daisy was keen to include both orange and blue flowers and those colours were woven through all of the smaller arrangements. We even made a flowery dog collar, which might have been my favourite detail of the day.

If you are planning a June wedding in the Peak District, Sheffield or Derbyshire and love the idea of seasonal, sustainable flowers with a relaxed feel, a Flower Shower can be a wonderful alternative to fully styled floristry.

You can find out more about my DIY Flower Shower workshops here.

Flowers in season for June weddings

Peonies

Sweet peas

Orlaya

Cornflowers

Icelandic poppies

Geum

Foxfloves