Wedding Flowers and Floral Design in Barcelona

The ceremony is where flowers do the most visible work, because it is the one moment when everybody is looking in the same direction. Scale matters more than quantity here: a piece that looks generous indoors can disappear entirely against an open sky, and one that works in photographs from the front can look thin from the side.

For outdoor ceremonies I build with movement and asymmetry, using varying heights so the arrangement reads as something that grew there rather than something that was delivered. I also design for the conditions — wind, afternoon heat and long ceremonies are real constraints in this part of the coast, and they decide which varieties can be used and how they are conditioned beforehand.

For ceremonies held in a church or an indoor space, the architecture usually gives me the structure, and the work becomes about restraint: fewer, larger gestures that hold their own against the room.

Flowers for the reception and the tables

At the reception the flowers stop being a focal point and start being an atmosphere. Table arrangements need to sit either below or well above eye level, so nobody spends dinner talking around a bouquet. Beyond the tables there is the aperitif area, the entrance, the seating plan and the spaces guests pass through without noticing

I usually repeat two or three varieties from the ceremony across the reception, which is what gives the day its continuity. Where it makes sense, I also move the larger ceremony pieces to the dinner space during the aperitif, so that work you have paid for is seen twice rather than once.

Seasonal flowers in Catalunya and your colour palette

I buy according to what the season is actually giving, not from a fixed list drawn up months in advance. Flowers grown for the moment they are used are stronger, they open properly, and they hold up through a long celebration.

Spring gives peonies and ranunculus, and their density suits softer, more romantic palettes. Late summer and autumn bring dahlias, with deeper and warmer tones. Roses are dependable most of the year and are the reason so many schemes are built around them. Hydrangeas are beautiful and difficult in real heat, so I use them where the setting allows it. Running through all of it is the greenery of this region which is what makes an arrangement look as though it belongs in Catalunya rather than anywhere else. If you are still deciding, it helps to understand how each variety behaves once it is cut.

Colour usually follows from two things: the season and the venue. A palette that sings against warm stone at six in the evening can look washed out in a white, modern space at midday, and part of my job is to notice that before we commit to it.