This directory features wedding and elopement floral designers and floral preservationists serving the Western United States. Floral design plays a meaningful role in an elopement, adding personality, intention, and beauty to an intimate day. These florists specialize in creating custom arrangements that reflect each couple’s style and the environment around them.
Floral preservationists offer a way to keep those flowers long after the wedding day has passed. From pressed florals to framed artwork and resin pieces, these artists help couples preserve their wedding flowers as lasting keepsakes tied to their adventure wedding or elopement.
Photo by Unleashed Elopements
An adventure elopement floral design looks different from a traditional wedding. Instead of filling a venue, florals are often chosen intentionally, with movement, portability, and setting in mind.
Many couples keep things simple, focusing on one or two pieces that travel easily and photograph well. A bouquet paired with a boutonniere, pocket square, or floral crown is one of the most common choices for elopements and intimate wedding days. These pieces add texture and color without taking away from the landscape or the experience.
For ceremonies that take place in locations where décor is allowed, couples sometimes include a small ceremony piece. This might be a grounded floral arrangement, a floral accent for an arch or structure, or a design element placed within the environment. These pieces are often repurposed later in the day for portraits or dinner.
Picnic elopements and adventure dinners are another place where florals can stand out. A single centerpiece, low arrangement, or floral accents woven into a tablescape can transform a simple setup into something unique!
On the other end of the spectrum, some couples plan multi-day elopements or micro-wedding weekends. These celebrations may include guest tables, shared meals, welcome gatherings, or farewell brunches. In these cases, floral design often expands to include table arrangements and design elements that carry through the weekend while still honoring the relaxed, adventure-focused feel of the event.
Adventure wedding florals aren’t about how much you include. They’re about choosing pieces that fit your location and the feeling you want for your day.
An adventure elopement floral design looks different from a traditional wedding. Instead of filling a venue, florals are often chosen intentionally, with movement, portability, and setting in mind.
Many couples keep things simple, focusing on one or two pieces that travel easily and photograph well. A bouquet paired with a boutonniere, pocket square, or floral crown is one of the most common choices for elopements and intimate wedding days. These pieces add texture and color without taking away from the landscape or the experience.
For ceremonies that take place in locations where décor is allowed, couples sometimes include a small ceremony piece. This might be a grounded floral arrangement, a floral accent for an arch or structure, or a design element placed within the environment. These pieces are often repurposed later in the day for portraits or dinner.
Picnic elopements and adventure dinners are another place where florals can stand out. A single centerpiece, low arrangement, or floral accents woven into a tablescape can transform a simple setup into something unique!
On the other end of the spectrum, some couples plan multi-day elopements or micro-wedding weekends. These celebrations may include guest tables, shared meals, welcome gatherings, or farewell brunches. In these cases, floral design often expands to include table arrangements and design elements that carry through the weekend while still honoring the relaxed, adventure-focused feel of the event.
Adventure wedding florals aren’t about how much you include. They’re about choosing pieces that fit your location and the feeling you want for your day.
A Meaningful Way to Preserve Part of Your Wedding Day
For generations, wedding flowers were something you enjoyed for a day and then let go of. Today, floral preservation offers a way to keep a meaningful part of your wedding long after the celebration ends.
Instead of recreating the day, preservationists work with the actual flowers from your wedding and transform them into lasting keepsakes. Different preservation styles allow couples to choose what fits their home, their story, or even to give as a wedding gift.
Handcrafted tables and serving trays that incorporate preserved wedding flowers into furniture for your home. These pieces, built from acrylic, wood, and metals, allow florals from your wedding day to live on in everyday spaces as reminders of your adventure that you use!
Freestanding acrylic preservation pieces come in shapes like squares, hexagons, arches, and other geometric forms. They are designed for shelves and flat surfaces throughout your home or office. It’s a great way to highlight your flowers as art while protecting their shape and color.
Smaller preserved floral pieces, including bookends, jewelry, and compact keepsakes. This category often includes items like necklaces or earrings made with preserved flowers. These pieces are easy to display or wear, make meaningful wedding or elopement gifts, and are a popular way to share preserved florals with parents or loved ones.
Pressed floral artwork and shadowboxes created from wedding flowers. This preservation style offers a timeless, gallery-style look and works beautifully as wall art or heirloom pieces meant to be enjoyed for years.
Floral preservation pieces created by Adventure Wed Vendors: Bupp Woodworks and Impressive Florals
For adventure weddings and elopements, florists and floral preservationists serve different roles at different stages of the wedding experience. One shapes how your wedding day looks and feels. The other helps you keep a meaningful part of that day long after it’s over.
Timing: Before & during your wedding
A florist shapes how your wedding day looks and feels in the moment. Their work focuses on creating florals that support the experience itself, from movement and setting to how everything comes together on the day you get married.
Timing: After your wedding
A floral preservationist helps you keep a meaningful part of your wedding after the day has passed. Their work focuses on turning your florals into a lasting reminder of the experience you shared.
Adventure wedding florals are designed with movement, durability, and scale in mind. They often include smaller bouquets, wearable florals, dried or preserved elements, and designs that complement nature instead of overpowering it. Traditional wedding florals tend to focus on large installations and indoor setups, while adventure florals prioritize flexibility and storytelling.
Yes, when designed by an experienced florist. Many use hardy blooms, dried florals, preserved flowers, or a mix of fresh and dried elements. These designs are built to withstand wind, elevation changes, heat, snow, and travel so your florals still look incredible during your ceremony and photos.
We think it's a great idea! Florists and floral preservationists serve different but complementary roles. Your florist designs and creates the florals for your wedding day, while your preservationist ensures those florals are carefully preserved afterward. Booking both allows you to enjoy your flowers during your wedding and keep them afterward.
After your wedding or elopement, your florals are either shipped or delivered to your floral preservationist. From there, the flowers are dried, pressed, or preserved using professional techniques before being arranged into your chosen keepsake or display piece. The process typically takes several weeks to a few months, depending on the style.
Absolutely! Preserved wedding florals make great wedding gifts, anniversary gifts, or heirlooms. Many couples also gift preserved florals to parents or keep smaller pieces as lasting reminders of their adventure wedding experience.
Adventure wedding and elopement vendors can apply to join the Adventure Wed community through our vendor application. Each application is reviewed individually. Click here to find out more!
Photography on this page by Adventure Wed contributors, including Jessie and Dallin Photography, Unleashed Elopements, Billie Fruit Photography, Love and Latitudes, Datura Photo, and Myrtle Creative Co.Â
