Creative Wedding Color Palettes We Love for 2026

Color plays a powerful role in a wedding! It sets the tone, guides the flowers and decor you choose, and lingers in the memories of your guests – not to mention the keepsake photos – long after the last dance.

At Flourish, we always start by looking at what’s in season and matching it with our client’s preferred color palette. One of our favorite parts of the design process is harvesting and sourcing gorgeous flowers and playing with different tones to create a wedding flower color palette that is rich, layered, and totally unique to each specific moment in time. Finding the perfect Cafe au Lait dahlia with the softest shade of blush or the warmest, fluffiest peach ranunculus stems from our flower fields is often what takes a design like a bridal bouquet over the top and makes it truly special.

Whether you're planning a spring elopement in the Blue Ridge Mountains or a golden-hour mountain wedding in Asheville, these creative color palettes for 2026 feel both current and timeless. They’re inspired by nature and the changing seasons. Here are a few of our favorite wedding floral palettes for this year:

Blushing berry

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Palette: Raspberry, blush pink, ivory, and spring green
Best for: Spring weddings, garden venues, floral-forward designs
Vibe: Romantic, fresh, whimsical, softly vibrant

Raspberry is one of this year’s breakout bridal colors. Deeper and brighter than blush (which is always one of our favorites), raspberry is a great way to add depth and a pop of color to a spring wedding palette. Paired with soft light pinks, ivory, and the bright lift of spring green from foliage, it creates a color story that feels fresh from the garden.

We love this palette for couples who want something romantic, but not too sweet. The pop of raspberry adds a little more personality and depth than pastels alone.

We often use early-season favorites like ranunculus, hellebores, sweet peas, and anemones to bring this palette to life. Together, they echo the softness of spring while adding just enough contrast to feel mature and expressive.

Summer Wildflowers

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Palette: Butter yellow, strawberry, coral, and chartreuse green
Best for: Sunny summer weddings, outdoor celebrations, creative couples
Mood: Joyful, sun-drenched, playful

There’s something about this palette that just feels like summer, like strawberry lemonade. It’s vivid, playful, and full of energy. Inspired by wildflower meadows, it mixes warm, buttery yellow and punchy coral tones with vibrant pink and chartreuse for a celebration that’s equal parts joyful and grounded in nature.

We love designing with zinnias, cosmos, celosia, gomphrena, and dahlias in these shades, letting each arrangement feel hand-gathered and full of movement. This palette is especially at home in open-air settings like mountain meadows, farm tables, and other outdoor weddings.

Golden Orchard

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Palette: Warm peach, soft pink, honey gold, and copper beech
Best for: Autumn weddings, tented receptions, estate and vineyard venues
Mood: Earthy elegance, painterly, abundant

This late-summer to early-fall palette brings together warmth and depth without relying on the usual autumn tones. Peach and soft pink add a gentle brightness, while gold and copper notes from autumnal foliage and branches ground the design in the richness of the season.

It’s a favorite choice for golden-hour celebrations: weddings where light, landscape, and florals come together to create something timeless. We often lean on dahlias, lisianthus, garden roses, and branches like oak or beech to build movement and layered texture into each arrangement.

Buttercream

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Palette: Creamy yellow, butter, light gold, ivory, and soft green
Best for: All seasons, timeless and refined weddings, classic but unexpected florals
Mood: Understated luxury, soft, luminous

A tone-on-tone palette doesn’t have to be subtle. This blend of soft yellows can be quietly stunning. Buttercream and ivory blend soft warmth with structure, offering a classic floral look that still feels full of light and life.

This palette works beautifully in every season but feels especially luminous in spring and early summer, when soft yellow blooms like garden roses, ranunculus, and peonies are at their peak. Whether paired with traditional or modern elements, these flowers offer a sense of elegance that’s simple, thoughtful, and enduring.

Planning a Wedding?

Choosing your flower palette is just the beginning of a process that should feel intentional, beautiful, and rooted in what matters to you. At Flourish, we grow and design lush, seasonal wedding flowers inspired by the blooms we grow right here in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Whether you’re dreaming of full-service floral design or looking to source flowers for your own creative vision, we’d love to be part of your celebration!