Tulips are beloved for a wide range of reasons. Many consider them to be the first signs of spring on the way—when they sprout, they bring joy and hopes of warmer weather. To others, tulips also symbolize love, and especially in certain colors. Additionally, they're found in many home gardens, making them comfortingly familiar. If that's not enough, they bring tons of beauty without breaking budgets.
If you're here, though, you already know the appeal of tulips, which is why we suggest incorporating them into your upcoming wedding. While they're perfectly fine for centerpieces and other floral decorations throughout your big day, they work particularly well in bouquets.
In the U.S., tulips typically bloom in the winter and spring, so they're great for a seasonal clutch during those times of year. But as the following examples go to show, they can be found and shown off in any month, thanks in part to the versatile range of colors that they come in. Depending on when your wedding is, you can pair them with all sorts of other blooms, and create an assortment that's as traditional or unique as you'd like.
Here, we display some of the best tulip wedding bouquets that we've come across, and point out how they've been used. Use these gorgeous arrangements to inspire whatever you carry down the aisle, and your bridesmaids' bouquets too, if you desire. No matter why you fancy tulips, you'll fall hard for these ideas.
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Lush Bouquet
This Mandy Grace Designs bouquet brimmed with tulips, clematis, jasmine vine, and more, and boasted warm shades like purple and red.
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Bright Bouquet
This mimosa, ranunculus, sweet pea, poppy, peony, and tulip arrangement was composed of joyful hues.
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Rustic Bouquet
Soft, natural shades were combined in this bouquet, which included blooms like tulips, lilacs, and daffodils.
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White Bouquet
A simple bundle made primarily of tulips is just as lovely as a larger assortment. This Henrietta Flower bouquet was both timeless and modern.
Courtney Joy Floral crafted this pretty bouquet filled with tulips, roses, and sweet peas, and the colors ranged from purplish-red to orangey-pink.
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Red Bouquet
We love the saturated reds and pinks that appeared in this Blush & Vine arrangement, which held tulips, anemones, ranunculus, and greens.
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Berry Bouquet
This bride carried a La Rosa Canina bouquet of seeded eucalyptus, roses, wax flowers, hypericum berries, brunia, and of course, tulips.
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Colorful Bouquet
Bobliee Style mixed orange tulips with a range of blooms and greenery for this unique bouquet.
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Purple Bouquet
Purple tulips paired well with scabiosa and foliage in similar shades for this assortment.
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Modern Bouquet
The giant protea in this Arrangements bouquet may have caught your eye first, but if you look closely, you'll see that it was complemented by peonies, ranunculus, astilbe, and—yes—tulips.
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Trailing Bouquet
Tulips look great, even on the beach, as this bride's Jill Loves Lace bouquet proved.
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Big Bouquet
Hana Floral Design put together this bride's clutch of white tulips and pink peonies. It also held hellebores, wax flowers, dianthus, hypericum berries, astilbe, ranunculus, and different types of eucalyptus.
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Yellow Bouquet
This bride's heart was set on tulips, and only tulips. The yellow and white shades picked were undeniably cheerful.
Some of my favorite flowers to pair with tulips in a vase are roses, hyacinths, and daffodils. Roses and tulips come in similar colors and have similar shapes, so they look really beautiful in a vase together. Daffodils are another common spring flower.
While they're perfectly fine for centerpieces and other floral decorations throughout your big day, they work particularly well in bouquets. In the U.S., tulips typically bloom in the winter and spring, so they're great for a seasonal clutch during those times of year.
Over time, their symbolism evolved to encompass various meanings, including love, elegance, and beauty. In the language of flowers, tulips have come to represent perfect love, making them a fitting choice for weddings.
How about rich purple tulips (Tulip 'Purple Prince') intermixed with purple-flamed orange tulips (Tulip 'Prinses Irene') or fragrant deep blue hyacinths (Hyacinth 'Blue Jacket') with jaunty yellow daffodils (Daffodil 'Dutch Master').
How many tulips will I need for one arrangement? Depending on where you purchase the flowers, one bunch of tulips usually comes with 15 blooms. To make a medium arrangement you'll need at least 30 blooms.
It all depends on the kind of bouquet you want. It can be a single type flower bridal bouquet or a mixed flower one. A mixed bouquet is one that has one or more types of flowers. You can make it with 2 or 20 different types.
Peonies have a great deal of meaning for a couple. The reason why it is so popular at weddings is that it represents “happy marriage” and “great honor.” Pink is the most common color given as a gift representing love at first sight.
Apparently, according to superstition, if you dream about white tulips, it can mean that you're about to embark on a new journey and a fresh start in life.
The most known meaning of tulips is perfect and deep love. As tulips are a classic flower that has been loved by many for centuries they have been attached with the meaning of love. They're ideal to give to someone who you have a deep, unconditional love for, whether it's your partner, children, parents or siblings.
While you do not need to dig and divide your tulips every year; they should be dug up at least 3-4 years if planted in the ground. If you are not digging them up yearly, make sure they are not in an area of the yard where they will be watered all summer. Too much water over the summer will rot/kill your bulbs.
Red tulips are a favorite among the romantic type. Their deep red hues evoke feelings of passion, love, and lust — making them an especially popular choice for new, younger couples.
Flower food contains nutrients that the tulips need to thrive, including sugar and minerals that will help them grow and stay fresh. If you don't have flower food, you can add a teaspoon of sugar and a few drops of lemon juice to the water instead.
"Let tulips stretch out in your favorite vase (mine is a speckled blue enamel water pitcher) and pair them with field greens like Solidago, or a fresh snip of eucalyptus for both fragrance and fullness." –Callie Bladow, production director at BloomThat.
Use a variety of flowers to create a stunning monochromatic look. You can even pair the blooms with a complimentary colored vase. Here, chicken wire creates a base within the vessel to hold the pink double tulips, ranunculus (blooms and buds), and peonies in place.
Pretty common triadic combinations can include red, blue, and yellow or green, orange, and purple. In order to create such a gorgeous arrangement, you can combine Orange Carnations, Roses, and Gerbera flowers with Purple Lisianthus and Irises, as well as some greenery.
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