Key Takeaways
- Spring weddings offer the perfect opportunity to showcase seasonal blooms like peonies, tulips, and ranunculus in your centerpieces.
- Pair bold statement flowers with greenery, fruit, or candles to create unique and personalized tablescapes for your celebration.
- Consider incorporating nature-inspired elements like flowering branches or wildflowers for a fresh, organic centerpiece design.
Spring is, without a doubt, the season for flowers. While, yes, we can make a strong case for a summertime wedding or tying the knot in the fall, if you're dreaming of a reception that's full of florals, you'll want to consider hosting your celebration in March, April, May, or June. When it comes to your fête, centerpieces serve as the focal point of your tablescape, giving you an opportunity to integrate the season's best blooms into the festivities. The experts agree: “Spring is probably the best for so many wedding styles as so many flowers are in season,” says Erica Adams, a luxury event planner and the owner of Erica Adams Design.
When thinking about the blooms you'll want to incorporate, Adams suggests considering peonies, tulips, foxglove, heuchera, or ranunculus. With so many varieties in bloom, start with a color palette and go from there. After selecting your statement florals, you'll be able to ideate on corresponding pieces, which may include other flowers, greenery, and even fruit. Maybe you decide to channel a soft, romantic design through large bold centerpieces, create a floral runner that stretches on and on for a head table covered in hydrangea, or embrace peony-pink arrangements full of pastel blooms. Adams herself is partial to nature-inspired elements. "I love when clients use flowering branches, such as spirea, dogwood, and forsythia in their wedding day florals," she says.
Looking for some inspiration to guide the design for your spring centerpieces? Here, we've rounded up 18 of our favorites from real weddings. Read on for more.
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Pillar Candles With Greenery
Photo by Cedar & Pines
Creating a stunning centerpiece reminiscent of a starry night sky, this couple set pillar candles (made with hand-poured honey-colored wax) next to simple florals in bud vases for the perfect tablescape. The design, spearheaded by La Musa de las Flores, corresponded with the illuminated ivory lanterns that hung over guests' heads.
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Ikebana Floral Arrangments
Photo by Demi Mabry
Continuing their vibrant spring-inspired color palette into their reception, this couple (with the help of Meraki Blommor) created ikebana floral arrangements that gave a calm—yet energizing—feeling to the celebration. The bright shades of the flowers popped against the black flatware and light wood tabletops.
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Bright Tulips, Daffodils, Butterfly Ranunculus, and Orchids
Photo by Jose Villa
Thousands of flowers served as décor for this couple's Texas backyard wedding—and the centerpieces were no exception. Mixing a variety of bright blooms together, the table arrangements, designed by Piper & Muse and executed by Tulipina, included peach, pink, yellow, and amber tulips, daffodils, butterfly ranunculus, and orchids.
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A Sunset-Colored Arrangement
Photo by Jacqui Cole
Playing into the location of their Florida nuptials, this couple integrated bright, tropical colors into their centerpieces. The arrangements, which included sweet peas, ranunculus, tulips, peonies, and roses in both colorful and glass vases constructed by Winston Flowers, called attention to the gorgeous tablescape, which included embroidered napkins and chargers with a bright green rim.
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Greenery and Low Florals
Photo by Kurt Boomer Photography
Instead of creating a full centerpiece of flowers, this couple decided to top their reception tables with short blooms and greenery from Golden Fields Floristry. The organic-inspired look was the perfect contrast to the black taper candles that illuminated the industrial-style space.
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Unique Florals and Fruits
Photo by Kyle John Photography
EV Design Collective combined popular blooms with more unique florals and fruits to create a stunning display for this couple's reception. "Our vision was for the day to feel elevated and thoughtfully designed but still playful—whether that was through incorporating patterns and textures in our linens, pops of color in the florals or fruit used as part of the table centerpieces, or the unique shapes of our day-of paper products," the bride said.
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White Roses and Organic Greenery
Photo by Aubrey & Brandon
At their light-filled reception venue that featured a glass ceiling and large windows, this couple didn't need much to bring a touch of brightness to their celebration. However, centerpieces constructed of delicate white roses and organic greenery from Leffel Florals ensured that the space was truly blanketed in light.
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White Florals and Candles in a Variety of Vases
Photo by Chris J. Evans
In a nod to their oceanside reception, this couple opted for a laid-back, coastal design for their centerpieces. Sitting with their guests at one long table, they created white florals (from Cristina Gonzalez) and candles in vases of varying heights, resulting in a picturesque set-up for their neutral-toned celebration.
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Petite Bud Vases
Photo by Daniel Kim
For a simple—yet stunning—centerpiece, take inspiration from this couple's celebration (and the work done by Bough and Twig) and fill a few bud vases with springtime florals. "We ended up going for small bud vases, as if we went to my grandma’s backyard and picked out our own flowers," the bride said. "Everything else was meant to be support items for the bud vases, so that it doesn’t take away from the natural beauty of wildflowers."
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Personalized Spring Centerpieces
Photo by Lauren Fair Photography
In addition to their cool-toned florals, which drew on inspiration from European botanical gardens and the tropical location of their Hawaii nuptials, this couple decided to add a small personal touch to their centerpieces, which were crafted by Moss Floral Design. "Each [one] included hand-made watercolor artwork of cities that we have been to since we started dating; so, rather than having numbered tables, we had city tables," they said.
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Bold and Bright Colors
Photo by Stephanie Brauer
Mixing bold colors together for their spring centerpieces, this couple asked Ivie Joy to create sophistical and whimsical arrangements for their New York celebration. "We just went wild with flowers and candles on the tables in a really lush and organic composition," the bride said.
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Classic White Blooms
Photo by Julie Livingston Photography
Choose classic flowers that everyone knows and loves for a centerpiece that’s sure to please. White hydrangea, roses, and tulips are always a winner (as Stems proves here); for something unexpected, incorporate a sprig or two of lily of the valley or even hellebores to take things to the next level.
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A Minimalist Approach With Greenery
Photo by Olivia Rae James
Keep things minimal with a scattering of smaller vases for a simple table design. For this wedding, Brown Paper Design combined white florals with greenery for a design that felt fresh, laid-back, and modern.
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Shades of Blue and White
Photo by Laura Gordon Photography
A blue and white color palette is a timeless choice for a springtime celebration. Opt for blooms like peonies, garden roses, ranunculus, and astilbe in shades of white and cream, and accent with hydrangea, delphinium, and pansies in blue for a striking combination, like Greenwood Events did for this couple's nuptials.
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A Monochromatic Arrangement
Photo by Sarah Falugo
From bridal bouquets to ceremony altars, monochromatic floral design is both simple and elevated. For a white color palette, delphinium, lily of the valley, and hyacinth make for a sophisticated centerpiece arrangement, as Revel Floral shows here.


