Why choose British flowers for your wedding?
- sue6978
- Feb 4
- 3 min read
If you're planning your wedding have you thought about using British grown flowers?
Planning a countryside wedding is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the natural beauty of the nature around you. If sustainability is important to you, choosing British-grown flowers and especially locally grown Dorset wedding flowers can be a thoughtful and meaningful choice.
A gentle step towards an eco-friendly Dorset wedding
For couples planning eco-friendly weddings in Dorset, they may be looking for ways to make choices that feel kind and considered. Flowers are often seen as a simple pleasure, yet they can carry a larger environmental footprint than we might expect.
Most flowers sold in the UK are imported from abroad, making year-round availability possible but many rely on heated growing conditions and long-distance transport. Choosing local Dorset wedding flowers helps reduce those impacts while supporting growers close to home.
For example, a single imported rose can produce around 2.44kg of CO₂, while an outdoor-grown British snapdragon produces approximately 0.11kg of CO₂ per stem. And it all adds up – with a typical supermarket bouquet of imported flowers generating around 32.25kg of CO₂ (once growing conditions and transport are considered).
(Figures from “The Carbon Footprint of Flowers” by Rebecca Swinn and Angela Coulton, Flowers From the Farm.)
Supporting Dorset flower farmers
Dorset is home to a growing community of passionate British flower farmers. By choosing Dorset flowers for your wedding, you’re supporting small, local businesses and helping to sustain rural livelihoods.
Many Dorset flower farmers grow without chemicals and care deeply about supporting pollinators and local ecosystems. Your wedding flowers can reflect the landscape they come from — natural, seasonal, and full of character (and sometimes the odd travelling bee).
Fresh, seasonal wedding flowers in Dorset
One of the joys of choosing Dorset grown wedding flowers is their freshness. Flowers are usually picked just days before your wedding, ensuring they arrive beautifully hydrated and full of life…and importantly chemical free.
Local growers offer an abundance of seasonal wedding flowers, including delicate and scented varieties that don’t travel well — such as sweet peas, cosmos, poppies and garden roses that continue to open as your wedding day unfolds. The number of British flower varieties available is huge and diverse, there being a shape, size, colour and scent for everyone, with the texture, bends and airiness creating characterful arrangements (imagine heavenly scented frilly sweet peas and classic cosmos gently bobbing above a hand tied bridal bouquet, alongside grasses full of texture.
The beauty of seasonal Dorset wedding flowers
Seasonal flowers reflect the time of year you choose to marry and suit the relaxed, natural style so popular at Dorset wedding venues, from country barns to coastal celebrations. There is nothing more precious than a stunning May bouquet including Peonies that have been conditioned/prepared in perfect time to show their perfectly ruffled petals!
Each year, when your anniversary comes around, you’ll see those same flowers blooming again in gardens and hedgerows across Dorset — a gentle reminder of your wedding day and the season you chose.
Planning your Dorset wedding flowers
British flowers are available throughout the year, including winter varieties such as tulips and alstroemeria being grown by larger-scale UK producers. Your local flower farmer florist can advise on what will be in bloom at the time of your wedding and can guide you through the entire process.
Working with couples and alongside nature is a privilege for all grower florists. If you are thinking about including Dorset grown flowers for your wedding then do get in touch.
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