A Seattle Outdoor Wedding - Flora Nova Design - Premier Event Design Studio in Seattle

The Romantic Seattle Outdoor Wedding of Katie and Eddie

Bride and groom in front of their large floral ceremony backdrop for their Seattle outdoor wedding

Katie and Eddie celebrated their Seattle outdoor wedding in July of 2021. Due to the pandemic they were one of our couples who chose to reschedule their wedding date from the summer of 2020 to July of 2021. So trying to keep pandemic risks at a minimum, for their July 2021 wedding date they greatly reduced their guest count and moved their wedding completely outdoors. The ceremony, cocktail hour, and dinner reception took place on the outside patio at the Hyatt Regency South Lake Washington and what a stunning affair it was!

Bride and groom with wedding bouquet of blush summer flowers

Bridal party wearing blue dresses and groomsmen in black tuxedos

Bride and bridesmaids wearing long blue dresses holding bouquets of blush summer flowers

Summer Flowers for a Summer Wedding

We fell in love with the color palette and design style as soon as we saw the couple’s inspiration board: grand arrangements of blush roses, dahlias, and ranunculus with tall orange eremurus, blue and white delphinium, rich smoke bush foliage, paired with lots of textured garden greenery and elements. Swoon!

For her bouquet, Katie wanted to go large with trailing elements. We designed a romantic, hand-tied bouquet featuring mainly roses and dahlias and trailing jasmine and long-stemmed astilbe added texture and movement.

Bridal bouquet with summer flowers of blush dahlias, blush roses, and long trailing greenery

Bride holding a lush bridal bouquet featuring blush summer flowers like dahlias, roses, stilbe, blue delphinium, tweedia, and trailing jasmine

For the ceremony we created grand arrangements of various sizes placed into large brown urns. For a staggered look we placed two of those tall urns on top of tall brown pedestals. These urns were overflowing with an abundance of colorful, mostly local garden flowers: dahlias in all sizes and many shades of blush, orange, and coral. Tall blue delphinium, red amaranthus, and various colored, textured greens. This created a dramatic and super-pretty backdrop!

Outdoor wedding ceremony at South Lake Washington featuring tall ceremony flowers in cream, peach, orange, and green

Bride and groom in front of their floral ceremony backdrop

Aisle entrance flowers for outdoor wedding ceremony inside large brown garden urn with summer flowers in cream, peach, orange

Seattle outdoor wedding ceremony at Lake Washington with large garden urns filled with summer flowers like eremurus, dahlias, roses, greenery

Grouping of large. staggered urn arrangements for a summer Seattle outdoor wedding at Lake Washington

Tall outdoor wedding ceremony with flowers in large brown garden urns featuring white and peach dahlias and roses, orange eremurus, blue delphinium, and textured greenery

Bride and groom getting married at the outdoor wedding ceremony featuring very tall floral arrangements of summer flowers in cream, peach, orange

Bride and groom's first kiss in front of their large ceremony flower arrangements in cream, peach, orange, coral, and greenery in brown urns

Smiling bride and groom just married walking down the aisle

The Outdoor Wedding Reception

The intimate dinner reception for just 40 guests was a truly romantic and stunning summer affair. The couple chose tables draped in specialty linens, woven French country chairs, elegant glass charger plates, lots of candles, and gorgeous floral arrangements to create an atmosphere to be remembered. And tall centerpieces with lots of candles on every table assured a wow effect and the towering ceremony pieces served as gorgeous backdrop behind the head table. Just wow!