Flowers for weddings
Bouquets, garlands exchanged, mandaps, arches and flower girls.
RosemarySalvia rosmarinus
A fragrant evergreen shrub with needle-like leaves and purple, blue, or white flowers
🇪🇸 Spain and 5 more · Flowering shrub
Narcissus
Spring-flowering bulbs with trumpet-shaped blooms in white, yellow, and orange
🇬🇧 United Kingdom and 7 more · Wildflower
HawthornCrataegus
A thorny shrub or tree with white or pink spring flowers and small edible fruits
🇮🇪 Ireland and 7 more · Wildflower
Lily-of-the-valleyConvallaria majalis
A woodland plant with sweet-scented white bell flowers in late spring
🇫🇮 Finland and 4 more · Wildflower
Hydrangea
Flowering shrubs with large heads that change color with soil pH
🇯🇵 Japan and 2 more · Flowering shrub
Decoration
Kanzashi簪
Traditional Japanese hair ornaments, often crafted as folded silk flowers
🇯🇵 Japan · Arrangement
Decoration
Floristry
The craft and trade of arranging and selling flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 3 more · Arrangement
Decoration
Lei
A garland or necklace of flowers, leaves, or shells given to honor or celebrate
🇺🇸 United States and 3 more · Garland or wreath
Decoration
Lei Day
Hawaii’s annual festival of leis, flowers and island traditions on May 1
🇺🇸 United States · Custom, May
Arabian jasmineJasminum sambac
A small white jasmine with a strong, sweet scent, treasured in Asia for garlands and ceremonies
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Stephanotis
A tropical climber with waxy, fragrant white flowers
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Calla lilyZantedeschia
Showy funnel-shaped flowers from southern Africa, grown worldwide as ornamentals
🇿🇦 South Africa and 7 more · Garden flower
Foxtail orchidRhynchostylis retusa
A long, hanging orchid with many pink-spotted white blooms
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Wildflower
Place
Descanso Gardens
A 150-acre botanical garden in La Cañada Flintridge, California
La Cañada Flintridge, 🇺🇸 United States · Botanical garden
Princess treePaulownia tomentosa
A fast-growing tree with large violet-blue flowers and broad leaves
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering tree
Wild Himalayan CherryPrunus cerasoides
A cherry tree with pinkish white blossoms from the Himalayas and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 5 more · Flowering tree
Decoration
Artificial flower
Imitation flowers made from fabric, plastic, paper, clay and other materials
🇨🇳 China and 5 more · Arrangement
Poppy anemoneAnemone coronaria
Red, white, or blue Mediterranean flower with a dark crown centre
🇮🇱 Israel and 7 more · Wildflower
Decoration
Perfume
A scented liquid made from oils, flowers, and aromatics for body and space
🇫🇷 France and 6 more · Arrangement
Stephanotis floribunda
A tropical vine with clusters of fragrant white, waxy flowers from Madagascar
🇲🇬 Madagascar · Climber
Decoration
Floral industry
The global trade and business of growing, selling, and arranging flowers
🇳🇱 Netherlands and 7 more · Custom
Decoration
Papel picado
Mexican folk art banners made by cutting designs into colored tissue paper
🇲🇽 Mexico and 1 more · Flower craft
Place
Muttart Conservatory
Four glass pyramids housing global plant biomes in Edmonton
Edmonton, 🇨🇦 Canada · Botanical garden
Prunus mume
The fragrant plum blossom tree that blooms in winter across East Asia
🇨🇳 China and 3 more · Flowering tree
Place
Parnell Rose Gardens
A rose garden and park in Parnell, Auckland with over 5,000 roses and heritage trees
Auckland, 🇳🇿 New Zealand · Flower garden, November
Spanish broomSpartium junceum
A tall shrub with rush-like stems and fragrant yellow flowers
🇵🇪 Peru and 6 more · Flowering shrub
Place
Hunter Valley Gardens
A vast themed garden and event venue in Pokolbin, New South Wales
Pokolbin, 🇦🇺 Australia · Botanical garden
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Papel picado: Ferfive, CC BY 4.0, source
- Prunus mume: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Parnell Rose Gardens: User:gadfium, Public domain, source
- Spanish broom: Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hydrangea: 3268zauber, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lily-of-the-valley: Salicyna, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Rosemary: Miguel Angel Masegosa Martínez, CC BY 2.0, source
- Hawthorn: Nadiatalent, Public domain, source
- Narcissus: Uberprutser, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Hunter Valley Gardens: CassieShepherd, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Anemone: Aviad2001, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kanzashi: Anonymous ( Japan ) Unknown author, Public domain, source
- Floristry: Joachimj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lei: possibly Fernando Le Bleux, Public domain, source
- Lei Day: Janine, CC BY 2.0, source
- Arabian jasmine: Taken by Fanghong, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Stephanotis: Lenore Edman, CC BY 2.0, source
- Calla lily: Octagon, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Foxtail orchid: Andri Suprihardi, CC BY 2.0, source
- Descanso Gardens: David Liu, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Princess tree: Jean-Pol GRANDMONT, CC BY 2.5, source
- Wild Himalayan Cherry: Patcharapapats, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Artificial flower: Flor4U|Wolfgang Roth|Blumenwerkstatt Roth, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Perfume: Takkk, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Floral industry: Satin66Flower, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Muttart Conservatory: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia, Public domain, source