Summer Wedding Bouquets That Embrace the Season

Summertime's sunshine brings about some of the prettiest flowers around. So, it should come as no surprise that some of our favorite wedding bouquets were carried by summer brides. This season is also associated with bright, happy colors—another big win in the bridal clutch category. To see what we mean, check out the following slides, which showcase an array of amazing summer wedding bouquet ideas.

Ahead, you'll find arrangements featuring popular wedding flowers (plus a few unique ones) that are available in the summer. In-season varieties include everything from dahlias and zinnias to protea and clematis flowers. There are also tons of year-round staples—from roses to eucalyptus—featured here. When choosing your assortment, it's important to consider the weather this time of year. That's why we've spotlighted sturdy plants like succulents, too—they'll withstand the heat of the dog days.

You'll also find a whole bunch of definitively-summery colors, from sunshiny yellows and oranges to bright pinks and even blues. Get inspired by the diverse array of shades and how they're combined for bridal bouquets. We didn't limit our picks to "classic" summer hues, though. We've spotlighted how to pull of more creative choices, as well.

This poppy clutch with citrus accents exemplifies exactly what we're looking for in the perfect summer wedding bouquet. The Alicia K Designs arrangement had both seasonal flowers and seasonal colors. For more ideas as stunning and seasonally-appropriate as this one, click through the rest of our gallery. One thing's for sure: Each of these beautiful bouquets truly represents this unique time of year.

Reds, greens, yellows, and blues comprised this colorful bouquet by Lalé Florals. It featured roses, greenery, and more.

Yonder House made this summer clutch entirely of chamomile flowers, which meant it smelled just as good as it looked.

How creative was this bride's Shotgun Floral Studio bouquet? It contained spray roses, fringe tulips, ranunculus, astilbe, gloriosa lilies, peonies, sweet peas, and anthurium.

What color's more seasonal than sunshine-y yellow? This Park Floral Design clutch included roses, ranunculus, berries, and greenery.

This California bride carried a lavish Scarlett & Grace arrangement of peonies, ranunculus, thistle, gloriosas, pitcher plants, and scabiosa.

Thought red was more of a fall color? Think again. This summer bride held a deep-hued Erba Flora Studio bouquet featuring in-season blooms like scabiosa, ranunculus, dahlias, and roses for her Oregon wedding.

Pops of purple clematis stood out in this summer Chestnut & Vine bouquet of foliage and flowers.

The bigger, the better! This Connecticut bride clutched a dramatic assortment of dahlias, garden roses, ranunculus, sweet peas, lisianthus, hypericum berries, and jasmine vine by Hana Floral Design.

Smilf star Frankie Shaw chose a traditional color for her wedding bouquet but worked with a mix of summer and year-round blooms including dahlias, blushing bride protea, veronica, supernova thistle, and hypericum berries. Melody Raye Flowers designed the arrangement.

Go all out with a bouquet like this July bride's. Rye Workshop made it using orchids, king protea, blushing bride protea, gomphrena, lilies, and clematis vine.

This Fleur de V arrangement was beautifully simple, containing dreamy garden roses and clematis flowers and vines.

This one-of-a-kind clutch was crafted by Don Chase of Jasper House Farm. "When we met to talk about bouquets, I brought a few simple requests: include eucalyptus, keep the colors light and summery, and have a cascading look," the bride shared, and the florist certainly delivered.

Can we say "wow?" This incredible early-September bouquet by La Petite Fleur could barely contain its array of colorful blooms and greenery.

Summer delphinium added unique texture to this green-and-white Capri Flor bouquet.

This rustic assortment by Greenwood Events was filled with dahlias, zinnias, delphinium, clematis, and more. Essentially, it embodied summer.

We're not surprised that this Lake Tahoe bride's cascading clutch weighed 13 pounds! The massive Natasha Kolenko assortment spotlighted eucalyptus, protea, banksia, and passionflower.

Purple lupines made a creative addition to this Maine bride's bouquet by Pamela Mountain.

We love the fresh yellow, blue, and purple shades in this bouquet designed by Martha Stewart Weddings style director Naomi deMañana. Many of the blooms were plucked straight from the wedding's location—Shelter Island—and the rest were ordered from FiftyFlowers.

We encourage summer brides to have fun with their selections. This lively Sullivan Owen mix had "nine bark, firework eucalyptus, cosmos, clematis, garden roses, chamomile, amaranthus, dianthus, and heirloom hydrangea," shared the florist.

This romantic posy of red roses (by Clare Monica Day) matched the bride's wedding dress.

Embrace one of summer's biggest blooms with a happy bouquet like this Atmospheres one, which also featured heat-ready succulents and craspedia.

This collection of orange, pink, red, and yellow zinnias looked as if it was picked right from the ground. Kay Genovese, the bride's aunt, created it.

Protea, delphiniums, astrantia, leucadendrons, and rose hips made up this lush bridal bouquet by Fern Studio.

Saipua created this summer bouquet—held here by the groom—using roses, dahlias, chocolate cosmos, astrantia, passion vines, and variegated hydrangea.

The bride's sister, the blogger behind The House That Lars Built, handmade this paper flower bouquet, which was intended to look as though the blooms were plucked from an oversized garden.

This organic arrangement, created by Carolyn's Flowers, was designed to pair formality with the feeling of wildflowers being picked from a nearby meadow. The bouquet was comprised of ranunculus, clematis, scabiosa, yarrow, lysimachia, seeded eucalyptus, and sword fern.

This bride clutched a mix of roses, ranunculus, hellebores, and andromeda by Twigg Botanicals for her Palm Springs wedding.

This bouquet, by Sinclair and Moore, incorporated a floral-fruity mix of garden roses, tea roses, poppies, kumquats, tangerines, Meyer lemons, ranunculus, phalaenopsis orchids, peonies, blackberries, clematis, and sweet peas.

This bouquet of garden roses, lily of the valley, and crab apples picked up on the blush tones of the bride's gown at her destination wedding in Ireland. Many of the flowers were locally foraged or sourced from area purveyors by Kate Holt of Flower Wild.

For her Colorado wedding, this bride carried a composition of garden roses, craspedia, eucalyptus, celosia, lavender, and snapdragon by Lindsey Grannis of One Fine Day Productions.

Twigg Botanicals chose a variety of flowers to give the arrangement a natural feel at this San Diego wedding. The diverse mix included viburnum berries, daisy chamomile, maidenhair fern, ranunculus, bouvardia, lisianthus, roses, and Japanese anemones.