Our Rowing Bridal Shower was inspired by a certain boathouse proposal and a Bayside Bride editor who met her current fiance while on her high school rowing team. You may have figured it out from the description, or maybe from the fact that she is the pretend guest of honor, but we’re referring to the lovely Natalie Franke!

The shoot is detail filled and includes everything from: oar-stamped favors, beautiful invitations, a fill in the blank mad-libs, and a dessert bar that beautifully reminds us how sweet love is!

With Spring right around the corner, we wanted to feature a few of our favorite inspiring floral wedding bouquets! We’ve featured Bouquet Posts in the past, but nothing quite like this! Whether its peonies, calla lillies, daffodils, or tulips – allow your eyes to wander and your heart to skip a beat!

Each and every bouquet presents its own interplay of colors, textures, and materials – all blending together to form something truly inspiring! In highlighting these beautiful floral creations, we hope to help inspire your bridal bouquet and have you dreaming up something even more beautiful than you could have ever imagined! Sit back, relax, and breath in the sweet sent of springtime inspiration!

Photographer: Katie Stoops Photography | Florist: Pat’s Flowers

Memories of spring are often accompanied with images of soft hues and bountiful flowers. This spring bouquet blushing with cream and pink peonies, cabbage roses, and hydrangea blossoms blend together in a delicate and soft array. These floral creations have us absolutely smitten and are a gorgeous example of southern elegance with a timeless finish!

Photographer: Marta Locklear Photography | Florist: The Enchanted Florist

This absolutely beautiful creation is a mix of modern artistry with a classic respect for the timeless aesthetic. With a subtle foundation of white, dashes of light blue Virginia bluebells and emergent textures of dusty miller create a bouquet that is both traditional and distinctly artistic. For the classic bride who is looking for something unique, it’s worth considering this white and soft blue bouquet!

Photographer: Jodi Miller Photography | Florist: Petal Flower Company

Oh sweet mercy! This spring inspired bouquet has us dreaming in pinks and creams! Perfect for a rustic bride or your beautiful Southern belle, we fell in love with the wide variety of different blooms (especially the scabiosa pods). Ranging in color from subtle cream, to blush pink, to vibrant magenta, and with small bursts of grey-blue and green – this floral creation reminds us of nostalgic fields of wild flowers growing in southern Virginia!

Photographer: Borrowed Blue Photography | Florist: Intrigue Designs

This absolutely gorgeous wedding bouquet is bustling with traditional spring flowers, sweet and fresh to bloom, with a mix of unique elements like scabiosa pods and other greenery! We love how intricate and absolutely spectacular the different flowers work in coordination with one another! And what’s especially wonderful is how complimentary the bouquet goes with the lace detailing on the bride’s gown! Fantastic!

Marta Locklear Photography | Florist: Flowers by Mona Ray

This stunning peach and grey wedding bouquet is absolutely dreamy! Soft and delicate sweetheart roses are mixed with a sharper texture of grey leaves and filler to create an alternation of textures. In addition to the gorgeous flowers above, spectacular brooch is tucked delicately below the flowers. It’s truly a unique piece!

Photographer: Tracy of Timmester Photography | Florist: Holly Chapple Flowers

 Cascading down with a stunning mix of spring and summer blossoms, this gorgeous bouquet stole our hearts from the very beginning! With a mix of “calcynia heather, peach juliet roses, lavender stock, blue nigella, lavender scabiosa, lavender herbs, clematis vine from my garden, honey colored hypericum, free spirit roses, and pink majolica spray roses” as described by Holly Chapple on her blog – We had to pick our jaws up off of the floor. Stunning.

Photographer: Marcella Treybig Photography | Florist: Sea of Blossoms

For the vintage bride who loves lace, a delicate brooch, and a stylish collection of flowers – look no further! This beauty is going on my very own Pinterest board because it may be one of the most beautiful springtime inspired bouquets that we’ve ever featured! I’m in love with the round expanses of flowers mixed in with grayed elements and textures. What makes this bouquet stand out are the delicate touches of lace and detail from a true floral master!

Photographer: Katie Stoops Photography | Florist: Flower Girls

What we loved most about this stunning floral bouquet was the mix of spring flowers, such as peonies, tulips and ranunculus, with early summer blossoms such as billy balls and tropical heliconias! This copious bouquet mixes the traditional spring wedding flowers with a refreshing and new twist on floral decadence! We can’t help but fall in love!

Photographer: Frest Photo | Florist: Flowers and Fancies

Happy Daisy! This bright yellow and white wedding bouquet will put a smile on anyone’s face! Filled with white daisies, calla lilies, garden spray roses, yellow lilies, and wrapped in yellow fabric with a gorgeous brooch – we’re absolutely head over heels! Spring doesn’t have to mean pink, it can mean gorgeous yellows and golds!

Photographer: Julie Renee Photography | Florist: Holly Chapple Flowers

When a bouquet plays with your heart by mixing soft hues with pops of color and texture, you can’t help but fall in love! Holly Chapple describes this beauty on her blog, “It was so much fun to make this bouquet. I used nandina berry, and lambs ear from my garden, viburnum berry, two types of coral charm peonies, peach juliet roses, white ohara roses, white patience cabbage roses, pink astilibe, scented geranium, and orange asclepsia for the bouquet.” And by mixing in small brooches it adds a small bit of bling to catch your eye!

Photographer: Caroline Fontenot Photography | Florist: Ginger Bradshaw of Ginger Lily Events

Bustling with garden spray roses, hydrangea, baby’s breath, dusty miller, and filled with a variety of other spring blossoms, this series of bouquets is one of the most beautiful collections that we’ve ever seen! We love the way that the bride’s bouquet is hand-wrapped in lace. It’s a delicate touch that has our hearts skipping a beat!

Photographer: Rob Korb Photography

We love bouquets that capture the essence of one color beautifully and upon seeing this decadent purple pair, we were in love! Creating a bouquet that is all one color, which coordinates to your wedding details and decor will really compliment the day! Rather than sticking to a solid white bouquet, we love the idea of expanding to solid purple (or whichever wedding color you favor) and giving your flowers a statement pop!

Photographer: Julie Harmsen Photography | Florist: Gail of GVL Floral

If a solid vibrant color isn’t fit for your wedding, you can never go wrong with the classic elegance of an all-white bouquet! This stunning example of spring wedding flowers in a white and lightly green color palette are absolutely timeless! What we love most about this bouquet is that although the colors are traditional, the intricate use of different flowers and integrated textures allows for a uniquely modern feel!

Photographer: Lisa Marie of Sweet Tea Photography | Florist: Bloomers

I’m a firm believer that you can never go wrong with an all-white bouquet and fitting in line with the gorgeous floral creation before – this full white calla lily bouquet is exquisite! This stunning traditional bouquet is perfect for the vintage bride or the modern bride looking for a timeless and classic aesthetic!

Photographer: Amanda McMahon Photography | Florist: Wholesale DIY

Sweet springtime bliss, this beautiful bouquet is the epitomized Spring bouquet! Lush and bustling with life, flowers arranged in a wide array of pinks and whites absolutely take your breath away! With ruffles of gorgeous flowers and tied with a vintage key and pink ribbon, how can you not fall in love?

Photographer: Katie Stoops Photography | Florist: Shawn Cosette of Beehive Events

 And we may have saved the best for last  - These absolutely elegant and gorgeous handcrafted bouquets will sweet any bride off of her feet! A symbol of true floral mastery and a blushing bride who can’t wait to marry her best friend – pink and white peonies are the iconic spring flower! We’re blissfully in love & we’ll leave you with that!

For even more bouquet inspiration, be sure to check out our Beautiful Bouquet Trends We Love.

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* Many of today’s featured Photographers and Floral Designers are a part of the Bayside Bride Vendor Guide! To find out more about becoming one of our cherished wedding professionals, submit an application!

We have fallen in love with all of the amazing Hair DIY’s on Pinterest lately and thought that it would be perfect to create one of our own! Every bride to be is looking for a fabulous way to style her hair, whether it’s for a date night celebrating your upcoming nuptials or at your engagement session!

Our fab intern Kate created & photographed today’s Hairstyle DIY for you to try at home! Enjoy!

How to create this beautiful braided hairstyle at home:
1)  Put your hair into a low ponytail and pull gently to loosen the scrunchie.
2)  Braid hair in the loosened ponytail.
3)  Create a hole in your hair above the scrunchie and pull the braid through the hole.
4)  Repeat this step spreading the braid out in the wrap to maintain even thickness.
5)  Tuck away the end of the braid and secure the wrap with bobby pins. Add a touch of hairspray to finish!

Oh yes ladies, this style is easy as pie and too cute for words! Let us know what you think – we’re in love with Kate’s amazing style!