Choosing your wedding color palette is a pivotal part of the wedding planning process. This decision will influence and shape almost all your styling and design choices, from flowers and fashion to table styling. While bold and colorful schemes have their own charm, for a luxurious and timeless color scheme that suits any season, you cannot go wrong with elegant, all-white wedding styling.
Monochromatic wedding styling can be hugely impactful when executed with meticulous attention to detail and works beautifully across various styles, from minimalist and sleek to abundant and ultra-luxurious. We recommend leveraging the expertise of your wedding planner and florist to create a cohesive aesthetic which threads throughout your wedding day, but the journey always begins with gathering inspiration. We have a wealth of beautiful ideas to help you get started on creating your dream all-white wedding styling.
Photographer, planning, design & flowers: @jannabrowndesignco
The Meaning of White Wedding Flowers
The color palette of your wedding evokes a mood and creates visual impact. This can be further elevated by intentionally selecting flowers for your bridal bouquet and reception arrangement based on their meanings. White wedding flowers, especially roses, traditionally symbolize innocence, purity and new beginnings, making their language the perfect choice for your “I do’s.”
Whether you choose Leonora (Auswagsy), Patience (Auspastor), Purity (Ausoblige), or Bessie (Ausperidot), when incorporating white David Austin Roses to your wedding flowers, along with their unique beauty, glorious color, character and scent, you are also adding a rich symbolism to your day.
Photography: @jessicamangia_photography
Florals: @bowsandarrowsflowers
The History of All-White Wedding Styling
The timeless tradition of all-white weddings was popularised by Queen Victoria when she defied convention by wearing a white wedding dress for her 1840 marriage to Prince Albert. Before this, brides typically wore dresses of various colors, but Queen Victoria’s trendsetting choice sparked a movement of embracing the color white, symbolizing purity and elegance. Her influence extended beyond attire and there was an uprising of white and ivory hues threaded throughout all aspects of wedding décor. This royal endorsement cemented the all-white wedding as a classic and enduring tradition.
Photography: @jessicamangia_photography
Florals: @bowsandarrowsflowers
Why We Love All-White Wedding Styling
All-white wedding styling is endlessly chic, elegant and timeless and lends itself to a multitude of weddings. We’ve seen beautiful city elopements with structured all-white flowers through to outdoor lakeside weddings, which bask in the ethereal glow of all-white styling, all as triumphant as each other.
This timeless color scheme allows the details to sing – textures, tones and tactile elements all come to life with a monochromatic color palette. These details, which you have meticulously curated, become the stars of the show (alongside you and your beau, of course!). Think textured table linens, letterpress stationery, multilayered floral arrangements, and textural fashion choices. Let them all sing in harmony under the unifying elegance of an all-white color scheme.
Photographer, planning, design & flowers: @jannabrowndesignco
Have you decided on your wedding day color palette? Will white and ivory hues take center stage? If you’re looking for even more color palettes and wedding rose inspiration, make sure you’re following along on Pinterest.