ARTICLE | 6 Best Flower Colors to Coordinate with Royal Blue Bridesmaid Dresses

It might be surprising, but royal blue is actually a versatile color for weddings. It can be subtly paired with white or pale blush, or cause a major stir with bold colors like fuchsia and bright yellow. It can “anchor” a nautical theme or take its rightful place among the jewel tones. Year after year, royal blue remains one of the most popular wedding colors and just a little experimentation easily reveals why.

6 Best Flower Colors to Coordinate with Royal Blue Bridesmaid Dresses

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Start with royal blue bridesmaids dresses of any length, and try different combinations of your other palette contenders until you find the perfect one for you. With the help of a handy “wedding flowers by color” guide (there are many, but we like this one by Brides.com), we’ve paired up some of our favorite flowers to give you an idea of what you might want to give a try.

Which Flowers are Available in Blue?

There are several flowers that come in gorgeous shades of blue ranging from pale to bright including hydrangea, delphinium and blue thistle. Other blue blooms are darker with undertones of purple like hyacinth, clematis, and water lily.

Royal Blue and White

If you love nautical blue and white, add stephanotis, calla lilies, roses, baby’s breath, tulips or white hydrangea. Like some added textures? Weave in strands of pearls or dot with rhinestone pins.

Royal Blue with Yellow or Pink

Yellow is a summery partner for royal blue. Roses (garden, standard and sweetheart), stock and sunflowers are just a few perfect choices. Pink is forever romantic, be it in snapdragons, pink roses, orchids, or oriental lilies. It softens any look and can add a feminine touch.

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Royal Blue with Coral

Peonies, dahlias, garden roses and snapdragons all have varieties in coral or with coral highlights. Against royal blue, coral has an almost retro or vintage feel. Add cranberry or antique green blooms for a very vintage fall palette.

Royal Blue with Silver

Metallics are hugely popular at the moment, and this year brides are venturing outside just gold and rose gold, and incorporating other colors like pewter and silver. Royal blue and silver were made for each other, and together make the most glamorous, shimmery winter palette ever. Clearly flowers don’t naturally come in shiny metallic silver, but there are varieties that come in grey which lends a silver-ish tone to which you can add your own metallic accents. Brunia balls, dusty miller, lambs ear, the tips of dried pussy willow, grey garden roses and some varieties of succulents will add the grey you need in natural form.

Royal Blue with Purple

A crowd favorite pairing, royal blue and purple combine for a stunning display. There are dozens of flowers that come in purple shades: tulips, alstroemeria, delphinium, anemone, hyacinth, and freesia to name a few

Royal Blue with Teal

A perfectly beach-y royal blue palette matches the hue with teal. Except for a variegated variety of hydrangea that inconsistently produces a flower with a teal accent, naturally teal flowers aren’t really a “thing”. While floral sprays can be used to make white flowers teal, your better bet is to incorporate non-floral accents to bring out the beauty in the teal-blue pairing. Ribbons, beading, brooches – choose something that matches your theme and overall look.
There are unlimited combinations of flowers that you can use to complement royal blue bridesmaid dresses. Be creative, consult a flowers-by-color guide as well as your own floral designers, and choose the one that makes you smile!

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Wendy Dessler

Wendy is a super-connector with Azazie who helps businesses with building their audience online through outreach, partnerships, and networking. Wendy frequently writes about the latest wedding trends world on My Wedding Tips.