When should you order wedding flowers?

The short answer: as soon as you have a date and a venue. The longer answer is about what actually happens in those months, and when it becomes too late.

Summer weddings fill the calendar first

May to September is the busiest period in Copenhagen, and Saturdays in that window book furthest ahead. If you are marrying on a Saturday in high summer, contact us early – not because we are pushing, but because we only take on the number of weddings we can tie properly on the same day.

Weddings outside high summer, and on weekdays, have considerably more room.

What the time is actually spent on

Not the tying – that happens on the day. The time goes on:

• The first conversation, where the direction is found

• Settling the scope: bouquet only, or tables, buttonholes and ceremony too

• Fitting the palette to the season on your specific date

• Ordering the right flowers in the right quantity

The flowers themselves are ordered close to the day. That is deliberate. Freshness beats planning.

Can you manage at short notice?

Often, yes. We have made wedding flowers at a few weeks' notice and the result need not be any weaker. What gets harder is large installations and very specific varieties. A bridal bouquet and buttonholes are far more flexible than a ceremony arch.

So write to us even if the date is close. We will say honestly if we cannot do it properly – we would rather decline than deliver something half-finished.

When you write, send us this

• Wedding date

• Venue for the ceremony and for the reception

• Rough guest count

• Colours or mood you have in mind

• Which parts you are considering

You do not need to have decided anything. A feeling is plenty to start from.

Read next

• See the range: wedding flowers

• And the bouquets: bridal bouquets in Copenhagen

• Think of the day as a whole: making the flowers feel like one thing