Weddings & Events in Boston

Weddings & events in Boston: flowers for a June or an October date

Weddings & events in Boston run from May through October, and the most requested dates on local planners' calendars fall from late September to mid-October. Which flower ends up in the bride's hand depends on where that date sits in the season, and the order placed earliest gets the widest choice of slots.

A June date with local peonies, an autumn one with protea

Small farms across Massachusetts cut peonies for only a few weeks, from late May into June, and a bride marrying in that window can carry flowers grown close to the venue rather than flown in. The peonies section fills with local stems while the cut lasts.

By the busiest stretch of the season, late September to mid-October, those local peonies are long finished. A bridal bouquet for an autumn date is built instead from peony-shaped roses or from protea, both carried in the section. One such option goes by the name Duo of Peony Roses and Peonies, built around that rounded peony look without waiting on the farms. Lilies work differently again: they come from greenhouses and are cut all year, so a lily basket for guests can be ordered on any date the season offers, June or October alike.

The bride's own bouquet and the wider wedding range

A bridal bouquet is its own small subsection, kept apart from the rest of the day's flowers, while wedding bouquets offers a wider choice for everyone else in the wedding party. A bride with a particular shape in mind, a tight posy or a loose cascade, can bring a photograph. The florist pulls up similar work already done, with its price, and builds the bouquet from there.

Before the courier leaves, the finished bouquet is photographed and sent over; anything that needs changing can still be changed at that point. If a flower in the plan is out of stock, the florist swaps it for one close in shade and price. That swap shows up in the same photo rather than arriving as a surprise.

A guest's gift that lasts: jumilia's two weeks, a lily basket's foam

Guests who want to mark the day without joining the ceremony itself usually send something to the couple afterwards. The gifts for the couple subsection is built for exactly that, flowers for after the day rather than flowers carried during the ceremony. Jumilia is worth knowing by its own name: each bud opens to about seven centimetres, white at the base and pink along the edge. With regular water changes it holds in a vase for roughly two weeks. A bouquet such as 51 Jumilia in Airy Wrapping is built around exactly that flower.

A lily basket needs no vase at all; the stems sit in floral foam inside the basket itself. Watered over its whole surface every day, that foam keeps the arrangement going for about as long as a vase would. That makes the basket an easy gift to send to an address where nobody will be hunting for a container.

One order for the ceremony bouquet and the couple's gift

Weddings often need flowers at two addresses on the same day: a bouquet for the ceremony, and a gift for the couple that follows. Delivery is charged separately for each address, as set out under delivery zones. A bride or guest staying at a Back Bay hotel can have the same bouquets and baskets sent to a hotel or another address, following the venue's rules, as listed under hotels and other addresses.

Flowers for weddings & events in Boston are easiest to choose by starting with the bride: her own bouquet sits apart, and the wider range covers the rest of the wedding party's flowers. Guests sending something afterwards can pick a flower basket that needs no vase, or go straight to jumilia by name.