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Planning a summer wedding in Vermont or New Hampshire means designing with the most abundant season for flowers. From locally grown blooms to garden-inspired textures, summer wedding flowers in New England offer endless possibilities.
If you’re searching for seasonal summer wedding flowers, choosing blooms that thrive in warmer temperatures will ensure your arrangements look fresh, natural, and beautifully intentional throughout your day.
Here are our favorite summer wedding flowers for New England weddings.
Garden rose
Garden roses are a staple for summer weddings, offering soft, layered petals and a romantic fragrance. They are a perfect alternative when peonies are no longer in season.
Best for: Bridal bouquets, centerpieces
Season: Early–late summer
COSMOS
Cosmos bring an airy, effortless feel to summer wedding flowers. Their delicate petals and natural movement make them perfect for garden-style weddings.
Best for: Loose bouquets, organic arrangements
Season: July–September
queen anne's lace
A favorite for New England weddings, Queen Anne’s Lace adds softness and texture while enhancing a natural, meadow-inspired aesthetic.
Best for: Filler, texture, airy designs
Season: Early–late summer
Snapdragon
Snapdragon is grow in spikes, each bursting with tube-shaped flowers which look like puffy lips and come in red, pink, orange, peach, yellow, purple, yellow, and white. Although they may look tough, snapdragons are quite sensitive and should be handled with care. Use a floral preservative, as Snapdragons love sugar prolong their vase life and boost color. Trim the stems every other day and only remove only the leaves that fall below the waterline, otherwise removing them all will stimulate the flowers to fall off. Refresh the water and floral preservative as well. To keep spikes from bending toward the light once in an arrangement, just break off the tips.
Roses are known throughout the world as a symbol of love and romance. English garden roses, bloom with masses of pastel roses. If you aren’t fond of the standard rose variety, the Garden Roses are larger and have more petals than standard roses. This gives them a lush, fluffy, similar to that of a Peony. Peonies are often popular wedding flowers, but are generally not available during the summer months, which is prime wedding season.
Garden roses are exquisite, and generally have an abundant amount of petals and open up in a variety of ways. They come in a variety of colors. White, cream, beige, yellow, peach, pink, red, and purple.
Garden roses have a glorious fragrance and the scent is as unmatched. These are our go-to blooms when we are designing for weddings and they take your winter wedding bouquet to the next level and I highly recommend them for floral arrangements.
Clematis
Clematis are most known for their beauty as climbing vines, but they will certainly grace your centerpiece and bridal bouquet and I use them a lot! The star-like flowers bloom in a variety of colors of white, pink, red, burgundy, blue or lavender and purple.
With proper care, they can last 2 weeks or longer. Keep them out of direct sunlight, since it will cause the blooms to wither more quickly. Also, make sure they are given fresh water daily.
Carnation
Carnations are the 2nd to roses as far as popularity goes for a cut flowers. The flowers have delicate ruffled edges and a sweet and spicy fragrance that is strong but sweet. The flowers will outlast almost any other type of cut flower in arrangements, bouquets, and any other uses for cut flowers. They come in a variety of colors; white, pink, yellow, lavender, beige, peach, purple and red. The smaller variety are great for filler flowers and boutonnieres. With their long stems and extremely long vase life make them an ideal cut flower for any wedding floral arrangement.
Astilbe
Astilbe has beautiful spiky clusters of flowers. Flower colors include white, pink, red, and purple. The flowers are stiff, upright stems.
Their leaves and feathery blooms are a great way to add texture and interest to your wedding flower arrangements!
lisanthus
The Lisianthus, known as Texas bluebell, Prairie gentian, Poor man’s rose and Lira de San Pedro, is native to the Continental US. The Lisianthus comes in a variety of colors including lavender, peach purple, pink, green, light brown and white.
Lisianthus’ relaxed ruffles make adoring companions or even stand-ins for other flowers with similar shapes. Their lack of fragrance makes them ideal for the allergy-prone. Single-petaled Lisianthus look a lot like tulips and poppies, while double-petaled varieties are similar to a smaller version of roses and peonies.
As the flower opens, the ruffled petals give the flower charm of a wild rose. The multi-branched stems have several buds that open.
Lisianthus offers a unique design that will make any winter arrangement romantic and has pretty long vase life and make excellent corsage and boutonnieres!
Stock
Stock is a fragrant, spiky flower. Their double flowers are wide and appear in close clusters of ruffled blooms and fresh, cloves-and-greenery scent and widely used in wedding floral arrangements. They are a texture line flower and give great dimension to your bridal bouquet and other flower arrangements. They come in a wide range of colors, from white, light yellow, peach, pink, lavender, and purple.
In general, a lot of these flowers are available during other seasons, but the most popular for Spring wedding flowers. You can’t go wrong with any of the fun Spring colors that any of the flowers have to offer.
Why Seasonal Summer Flowers Matter in New England
Choosing seasonal blooms ensures:
- Better quality flowers
- Heat-resistant designs
- A naturally cohesive aesthetic
Planning Your Summer Wedding Flowers in Vermont or New Hampshire
Summer is peak wedding season in New England, which makes early planning essential. Working with a florist who understands local growing seasons ensures your flowers feel intentional and elevated.
At Anaphora, we design floral experiences rooted in the natural beauty of New England—balancing seasonality with refined, garden-inspired design.
Your complimentary 30-minute consultation is our chance to connect, learn about your vision, and guide you toward the floral or stationery collection that best fits your celebration. This step helps ensure we’re the perfect creative match before you book.