Montana Summer Weddings: Seasonal Flowers at Their Finest

It’s summer solstice, which, around here in the Gallatin Valley, means I’ve been up to my elbows in local blooms for about a month. As a seasonal Montana wedding florist, this is when the studio truly comes alive. I’ve already unloaded a few loads of wash with stems and rubber bands rattling around in the drum. I’ve welcomed a few farm hauls into the studio and armloads of flowers are finally lush. Everything is truly blooming. The days are warm with slanting sunshine, and the nights cool quickly when mountain air floods the valley.

We have strings of tiny fairy lights over our yard and sitting out in the dusk with the twinkly lights overhead feels like gloaming magic. The sun takes its sweet time setting, golden light climbing the mountains before plunging into blue evening over the Bridger Mountains in full alpenglow.

Things that haven’t changed: My morning tea ritual. Lighting a candle whenever I can. Dancing when I’m needing an energy boost or reset.

What has changed? The fields.

I’m now working with early dahlias in impossible colors, silky peonies by the bucket load and my favorite small flowers, corncockle and Cherry Caramel phlox, have made an appearance. When I walk the fields at the farms, the colors are vibrant and dramatic. Huge swathes of rippling Cosmos dance next to ruffly peonies nodding on their dark green bushes. Tall spires of larkspur look around at their waving friend, yarrow. Around the edges of fields saturated in color hang the tendrils of sweet peas and the starts of all the later summer plants. The earth smells warm. Sultry.

If Spring came in with some cautious, tentative steps, Summer has arrived with her typical shebang. She has shown up fully with her gauzy, thin, and airy cloak of bright blooms. The mountains have joined in the celebration with Balsamroot, lupines, wild geranium and glacier lilies. They seem to say with the butterflies that there is no time like the present.

And in this present, you’re planning a summer wedding in Montana.

These flowers have shown up for you. For your color palette. To move gently through your outdoor ceremony while you make solemn promises. To rise into meadowy installations or a layered arch beneath the Paradise Valley mountains under the Big Sky. To gather and frolic in centerpieces and nod toward your guests as they linger over dinner. To rest in your hands as the most bridal of accompaniments.

All to celebrate you and your person. Underlining your love. To create poetry of your love story in place and season.

This is the season where what we’ve waited for becomes real. Where abundance replaces anticipation. Where if you can dream it, we can likely build it in local, Montana-grown flowers.

If you’re planning a summer wedding in Bozeman, Big Sky, Paradise Valley, Livingston or anywhere in the Gallatin Valley and are drawn to seasonal, locally grown wedding flowers, this is the season where we can build something abundant and completely your own.

Some summer portfolio events below: