Floral designer Lexi Richards wearing a custom floral headpiece

How to choose your floral colour palette with Twiggage & Bloom

At Twiggage & Bloom, whether you are newly engaged, planning a celebration or event, or choosing us for a commissioned piece, we’ll talk colour. But how do you go about choosing a colour palette that works?

Hellebores and other foliage flowers in vase

This colour or that colour?

There are many variables in floral design, but certainly colour is the most compelling. Just like the fashion industry, colour trends come and go and we do our best to keep up! But for our Twiggage & Bloom clients, we like to keep it simple. Instead of agonizing over the nuance between ‘sandstone’ and ‘terra-cotta’ for example, we focus on general colour palettes and your mood board.

Floral arrangements spread out on a table

Colour palettes that fit your vibe

We can glean a lot from your five inspirational photos, and thereby avoid the confusion of descriptive words trying to explain your colour choices. Regardless of the time of year, the flower varieties may change, but the palettes remain the same. For example, in spring, the pastel flower might be a ranunculus or tulip; in summer, a rose or hydrangea; in fall, a dahlia or zinnia and in winter, a lily or chrysanthemum. You will find that your preferred colour palette exits within one of our 4 style selections:

Muted Pastels: soft and delicate
Jewel Tones: bright and cheery
Berries & Burgundy: rich and moody
Field & Forest: greens & texture

Muted Pastels colour palette: soft and delicate

Muted pastels colour palette hand-tied flower bouquet

Jewel Tones colour palette: bright and cheery

Jewel toned colour palette - flower bouquets

Berries & Burgundy colour palette: rich and moody

Berries & burgundy colour palette wedding bouquet — *Photograph courtesy of Megan Ashley Creative*

Field & Forest colour palette: greens & texture

Field and forest dried flower bouquet arrangement Field & forest woodland colour palette floral arrangements

Matching your flowers to your event colours

Once your colour palette selection has been made, you can continue to enhance that with all the other items at your event. For weddings, this might include: invitations, ribbons & bridesmaids dresses, decor items such as tablecloths and candles, and so on. For other events, your selected palette would be continued with decor items, paper goods, favours, etc. For commissioned pieces; we work with the colours, mood, and themes of the intended space.

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