Autumn in Middle Tennessee is a perfect time to get married—the air feels refreshing, and the landscape is painted with warm, inviting colors. Choosing the right flowers for your fall wedding in Nashville is all about reflecting that natural beauty with romantic blooms that fit your wedding’s aesthetic.
We’ve curated a list of 15 of the best fall wedding flowers that we love to design with, and we know you’ll love them, too. Before we get started, please note that we can’t guarantee the availability of exact flower types or colors for your wedding due to the unpredictability of nature. With that in mind, we’ll always substitute with a comparable flower that suits your vision perfectly.
Now, here are 15 of our favorite fall wedding flowers!
Chocolate Cosmos
Typical Availability: Throughout Fall
Chocolate cosmos are a stunning addition to fall weddings with their deep, velvety petals in a rich burgundy hue that almost appears black. Their dark color pairs beautifully with other warm fall tones, and they add great airy movement to any design. Plus, they live up to their name with their subtle chocolate fragrance!
Roses
Typical Availability: Year-Round
With their romantic, layered petals, roses always make a great choice no matter the season. For fall weddings in particular, their range of autumnal tones like soft blush, rich burgundy, warm pink, and deep red really shines. They blend effortlessly into a garden-inspired aesthetic, bringing a classic touch to bouquets, centerpieces, and installations.
Dahlias
Typical Availability: Early to Mid-Fall
Dahlias are the epitome of fall beauty. With their lush, full blooms, they create an organic, almost wildflower-like feel in floral designs. Available in numerous hues such as burgundy, ivory, peach, tan, and shades of pink, dahlias add a layer of texture and dimension to any design.
Ranunculus
Typical Availability: Mid to Late Fall
Ranunculus, with their delicate, paper-thin petals are a favorite for garden-inspired weddings. They come in rich fall shades like hot pink, warm orange, plum, deep burgundy, golden yellow, and soft blush. Their layered texture works beautifully for bridal bouquets, boutonnieres, bud vases, and centerpieces.
Japanese Anemones
Typical Availability: Early to Mid-Fall
Japanese anemones make the perfect understated fall wedding flower. Available in different white, pink, and blush tones, they bring a sense of gracefulness to arrangements, balancing out more structured flowers with their light, airy presence.
I’m trying my hand at growing the Honorine Jobert, Pocahontas, and September Charm varieties in my yard this year, and I’m hoping it’ll be a success!
Amaranthus
Typical Availability: Mostly Year-Round
We love amaranthus for the effortless, cascading movement it adds to our floral designs. In shades like chartreuse, rust, and deep burgundy, it’s perfect for creating movement in fall-inspired color palettes.
Zinnias
Typical Availability: Early to Mid-Fall
While zinnias are usually known for vibrant color, they also come in beautiful antique shades that are perfect for fall color palettes. Ella, our lead florist, planted zinnia seeds from Floret Flower Farm, and they turned out beautifully. Undoubtedly, zinnias are versatile accent flowers that look great in a wide range of floral designs, and they’re certainly a fall staple.
Antique Hydrangeas
Typical Availability: Throughout Fall
When people think about hydrangeas, typically, an image of fluffy white blooms comes to mind. For fall weddings, hydrangeas can be a beautiful and potentially unexpected flower to incorporate. Late-season hydrangeas add a perfect texture for fall weddings with their natural, season-appropriate look and feel.
Smoke Bush
Typical Availability: Throughout Fall
Smoke Bush offers a stunning foliage option for fall weddings. With its cloud-like, smoky appearance and deep hues of plum, burgundy, and purple, Smoke Bush adds dramatic texture and depth to wedding floral designs. It works well in creating an moody, organic look that feels rooted in autumn’s richness.
Echinacea
Typical Availability: Early to Mid-Fall
Echinacea, also known as coneflowers, adds a wildflower touch to fall floral designs. Available in several shades like warm pink, burnt orange, and soft lavender, echinacea is ideal for fall weddings that have a more organic and natural creative direction.
Carnations
Typical Availability: Year-Round
Carnations used to be a flower most people dismissed because of their grocery store reputation, but their versatility, quiet beauty, and incredible resilience have helped them regain popularity with wedding floral designers. They add softness and texture without stealing the show and come in endless autumn shades like mauve, deep purple, dusty rose, terracotta, and cream.
Rudbeckia
Typical Availability: Early to Mid-Fall
Rudbeckia reminds me of an elevated sunflower/daisy hybrid with its warm, golden hues and whimsical appearance. These fall wedding flowers come in deep yellow, orange, and soft rust that looks lovely in rambling aisle flower designs and organic bouquets alike!
Unique Chrysanthemums
Typical Availability: Throughout Fall
Chrysanthemums come in various striking forms that are perfect for adding artful texture and interest to your wedding arrangements. Quill, spider, incurve, and brush and thistle varieties offer intricate, delicate blooms in colors like burgundy, gold, pink, ivory, and plum. These fall flowers are definitely set apart from the typical mounded garden mums you may be familiar with.
Flannel Flower
Typical Availability: Throughout Fall
Flannel flowers come in shades of white and are known for their soft, fuzzy petals and delicate, star-like appearance. They’re a fall wedding flower that adds a sense of coziness and warmth to floral designs. After all, they’re called flannel flowers for a reason!
Scabiosa Pods
Typical Availability: All Year
Scabiosa pods bring an unexpected texture and visual interest to fall floral designs. Their neutral, earthy tones work well with other fall colors, making them a subtle yet distinctive addition to different floral designs.
Bonus: Fall Foliage
Typical Availability: Early to Late-Fall
Even though it’s not a flower, this list wouldn’t be complete without fall foliage! We especially love incorporating branches into our larger statement pieces, but they also add so much character to smaller arrangements. Whether used sparingly or in abundance, fall foliage brings a warmth that complements the season like none other, and we highly recommend it to all our fall couples.
Closing Thoughts on Fall Wedding Flowers
The flowers in your wedding should feel like a seamless part of your day’s story. We always focus on intentional selections that capture the essence of your wedding’s aesthetic with the season in mind. No matter what flower types you’re drawn to, we’ll make sure they reflect your vision perfectly.
Inquire with us to start planning your Nashville wedding flowers. We’re excited to bring your vision to life!
If you’re curious about the flowers we love using for Nashville summer weddings, check out this post, and for helpful information on how much Nashville wedding flowers cost, read this post!
