Well, you can consider succulents as a nice alternative to or addition beside flowers at your wedding. Those plump plants are in no way less charming or romantic than their botanical counterparts are. They work brilliantly on their own or mixed together.

Wedding Flowers: How to Feature Succulents in your Decorations

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Different Type of Succulents to Choose From:

Succulents add just the right amount of texture to the overall look of a decoration arrangement. So, incorporating them into your wedding decorations adds a refreshing touch and uplifts the overall ambience.

If you love greenery, make wreaths of succulents, tillandsia, ferns, and passion vine to grace the doors of the church where you will be saying ‘I Do’. The wedding table can be decorated with succulent printed napkins and seating cards staked into mini succulent pots. The groom and his best man can gussy up their lapel with succulent boutonnieres.

Succulents can also be made great wedding gifts for your guests to take home. Stenciled glass jars filled with cute, tiny succulents or mini terrariums with succulents and air plants nesting in white sand will add a special touch to the ceremony.

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Wedding Centerpieces with Succulents

Stylish succulent arrangements have become a part of wedding trend these days and they are showing up especially in wedding centerpieces because they can be transformed into great wedding centerpieces. Tell your florist to mix up those fleshy plants with different types of flowers and plants such as lady-slipper orchids, air plants, Queen Anne’s lace, lotus pods, and moss and your wedding will be graced with gorgeous centerpieces.

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For a rustic wedding, place the centerpieces on wood blocks and add vintage metal numbers or letters to them. Here’s The Knot photo album to spark your imagination with more succulent wedding flower ideas.

Succulent Arrangements for Wedding Flowers

Succulents are a refreshing alternative to flowers and they can be used making great bridal bouquets. You can apply the mix and match style by pairing different types of succulents with poppies, dusty miller, scabiosa, charm peonies, and ranunculus.

You can also craft bouquets entirely of succulents, which will look modern and stylish and will be perfect for an outdoor wedding. Sometimes, people get confused over how to avoid the succulent bouquet looking too casual in a black-tie wedding. Well, you can easily mix up those pudgy plants with some elegant flowers like black-and-white anemones and scabiosas and you will get the perfect bouquet for your black-tie nuptial!

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Succulents come in a surprising variety of colors and shades, which makes them perfect for wedding decorations. The great thing is these plants are eco-friendly and recyclable so you can take them all and plant in your garden after the wedding ceremony! Plus, they are especially great for summer weddings since, unlike wedding flowers, they are tolerant to heat.

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