Don't let the heat get you down choose summer wedding flowers for your special day

Summer is a great time to have a wedding, the evenings are warm so you can stay out and enjoy an outdoor evening wedding and enjoy free flowing cool fabrics and colors. Summer wedding flowers can be a wide variety. There are a lot of flowers that bloom during the summer time. Do you want a wedding full of a wonderful scent if you are having an evening wedding then how about pots of blooming four o clocks these evening blooming flowers come in a wide variety of colors and fill the air with a wonderful fragrance. 

Coreopsis is another great summer flower that works well as decoration. It starts blooming in early summer and will bloom all the way through fall so no matter what time of summer you have your wedding you will have Coreopsis with its yellow star shaped flowers as a possible for your summer wedding flowers line up. 

Showy Sedum is a cluster of small flowers these clusters can be quite large and it is an extremely sturdy plant making it a great addition to a center piece or the center of an arrangement. The flowers are usually in the purple and pink colors. If you want darker colors of either wait till the flower matures a bit the color of these flowers deepen as it matures. They also are wonderful dried to make a memento of your summer wedding flowers arrangements. 

If you are looking for fragrant flowers for your summer wedding flowers, take a look at the sweet pea. It is usually an early summer bloomer because it doesn't like the heat but if you live in a more northern clime with a milder summer this little flower will bloom all through to fall. The beautiful pink flowers make it a wonderful choice for decorations, a little sprig here and there for scent and a splash of rich pink in your summer wedding flowers. 

Asters are another summer wedding flowers favorite. They look much like daisies only purple with yellow these flowers definitely lend a summer feel to any flower arrangement. 

Foxgloves are another summer flower that looks beautiful in a summer wedding flowers arrangement. These flowers are long and tubular shaped. There are also flowers like the rock rose with its raspberry pink blossoms. Placing these in potted plants will definitely lend a wonderful floral backdrop to your wedding. 

The traditional rose can't be left out of our summer wedding flowers line up a good variety that grows in the summer time is the hybrid tea rose. They come in just about every color except for blue and are often bi colored. These tea roses make wonderful additions to a bouquet or a summer wedding flowers arrangement containing roses. These flowers can grow to be about 5 inches across in some varieties so remember to take that into consideration when you are choosing which hybrid tea rose you want. 

For a truly elegant summer wedding flowers arrangement take a look at using the oriental lily. These pure white flowers are topped in the center with thin deep red colored stalks. These flowers come in a number of wonderful varieties and make a lovely addition to the family of summer wedding flowers. 

Another flower that is not normally considered a wedding flower but can be used is the Marigold this works especially well if you are having a brightly colored wedding. There are several divisions of marigolds from the typical pom-pom like flowers we normally see to ones with purple tinged stems and a double cluster of daisy like flowers. They also come in a variety of shades ranging from the normal orange we all love to cream, yellow, even burgundy and some bi colors. 

If you want a truly lovely addition to your summer wedding flowers take a look at the iris. These flowers come in a variety of shades but one of the most stunning has to be the rich royal purples with delicate lavender. They are an early summer bloomer so keep this in mind when you are thinking about Irises to add to your summer wedding flowers. 

There are a wide variety of flowers you can use as summer wedding flowers. These listed above were just the flowers that bloomed during the summer time. In the day of green houses, and airplanes any flower that you could want can be a summer wedding flower.