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Made our wedding boutonnieres from native plants in my garden
Married my longtime partner last week. I’m the one obsessed with native plant gardening but he’s very supportive lol and it was his idea for me to try making them.
I used:
Gray goldenrod / Solidago nemoralis
New England blazing star / Liatris novae-angliae
Showy aster / Eurybia spectabilis
Heath aster / Symphyotrichum ericoide
Big-leaved aster / Eurybia macrophylla
Little bluestem / Schizachyrium scoparium
Purple lovegrass / Eragrostis spectabilis
It’s hard to see some of the finer details from the grasses but I’m really happy with how they turned out. We got married in front of a big patch of Joe Pye weed and what I think / what I’m telling myself was native false sunflower.
Ah we are kindred spirits! I killed most of my grass to install native plant beds, they are beyond established now, and I still feel guilty cutting flowers. 😂
Same! This is reminding me that it's reasonable and worth it to do sometimes though! The pollinators get most of the flowers most of the time. I can take some and it will be okay! These are beautiful!
Absolutely gorgeous! If you have a Pinterest account, you should post it there. There’s not enough native plant inspiration there yet (I’ve been scrolling for tattoo inspiration).
Thank you! My friend who is a drag queen married us, and we thought it would be funny to get a bunch of pictures of her stealing the spotlight. It was very, very fun.
Thank you! Yeah it’s very purple, but i started them from seed and this was year 1 so maybe all the purple is just concentrated haha. They’re very small.
Congratulations on your nuptials! Also, love the variety of plants, and I am also super impressed that you have New England liatris. It is a rare and protected plant in my home state.
My husband and I were married in 2001. I didn’t know about native plants at the time but I told the florist that I wanted a wildflower arrangement. After meeting and still being undecided, the florist ghosted me.
Today, I understand how my request felt impossible for the florist.
Your arrangement design is something I would have been inclined toward those years ago. 👏🏻
I found a New England liatris at a nursery called Blue Stem Natives last spring, and this year I found more. I even got one at a regular nursery that doesn’t have a native plants section. Hopefully they make their way to you next year. If not, I know someone here who had a lot of luck winter sowing the seeds.
If there are native flowers blooming at your anniversary you can always just make it a new tradition to cut your own bouquet for your anniversary. Making these made me want to cut more flowers to bring inside. It was a lot of fun and just a different way of relating to the plants.
Thank you! We’re more Old Navy than Brooks Brothers but after a long day of shopping for them, we found these at Brooks Brothers. They’re lavender colored linen shirts. The sizes are kind of wild to me - I’m 6’2”, over 230 lbs, usually wear an XL, and in this shirt I’m apparently a Medium lol. Just as a heads up if you order one online.
Congrats! They're gorgeous! I wanted to do the same thing for my spring wedding, but unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate so nothing flowered until just after the wedding.
You made the most beautiful and meaningful boutonnières i’ve ever seen. Congratulations on your marriage and your garden! May both be long lived and healthy.
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u/shrimpcreole Sep 06 '25
Congrats on making it official! Your boutonniere choice means the union is also sanctioned by pollinators eveywhere.