Real Weddings: April at The Roundhouse
April! Where the blooms begin!
There’s something magical about stepping into the studio at the start of a new season. The colors shift, the textures evolve, and suddenly the palette we work with feels entirely new. That’s exactly why we’re so excited to introduce our new monthly series — Real weddings — as an invitation for you to step behind the scenes and experience how we design with the best local blooms each season has to offer.
Each month we’ll bring you into our studio to show you how we thoughtfully reflect what’s naturally in bloom for our weddings. You’ll get a closer look at our process, inspiration, and the small decisions that shape each design from each flower, vessel, candle and ribbon.
April is where everything begins to wake up and our weddings during this time are filled with soft pastels, airy textures, and that unmistakable sense of renewal. This is just the beginning and we lean into delicate, romantic blooms and playful combinations that feel light and effortless.
This month, we’re diving into an april wedding from 2025 at our local venue the roundhouse, which is always such a beautiful raw space to work in. Our couple, like so many of our Flora weddings, really celebrated the season and place that their wedding took place in. IT actually snowed the morning of the wedding, but turned into a beautiful, softly lit spring day. Read on to explore how April’s blooms guided the conversation for L&C.
Picking the Palette
Inspiration images are always gathered and pulled together from many sources to align us within the world we’re trying to build. Images are chosen for a variety of aspects, but predominantly for color palette, seasonality, and spirit of design
Larissa and Connor’s April wedding palette at the Roundhouse was inspired by Spring herself. The bright pastels of early spring with delicate pops of color peppered throughout. The room was adorned with a variety of centerpieces and arrangements of flowering branches scattered around to add height to the soaring waterfall room at The Roundhouse. it all came together for an overall whimsical and luminous look.
This was our final color palette, but we added in a punch of fuchsia throughout to bring a touch of depth and unexpected vibrancy.
The bride’s dress was a family heirloom, worn by her mother and her grandmother at both of their weddings. This sweet sentiment brought a layer of vintage romance that informed the design and loose, garden-inspired, easy, collected look that we worked toward.
Honoring The Season
Upon initial inquiry, the couple really wanted to meet April where it was at, and we loved that. It’s not often that couples know exactly what flowers will be available on their wedding date, but Larissa’s first email to us included Forsythia, which is absolutely spot on. Honoring the season is something that we, as florists, relish. It tells the timeline of your wedding date, and evoke effortlessly the season that surrounded you on your wedding day.
Forsythia became our star.
We proposed an immersive staircase bursting with flowering forsythia. Sunshine on an april day. I’m so glad that L&C were game, because I love how it turned out.
It wasn’t without great challenge. A lot of floristry goes this way! You make plans, and flowers laugh in your face and say “Try again!”
I sourced about 100 branches of forsythia the week leading up to L&C’s wedding date, in bud stage, so that they would slowly open over the course of the week, and be in peak condition for Saturday.
I babied these branches along for about 7 days. in a darkened, cool room. fresh water, fresh cuts to the stem. everything perfect. Everything was going to be perfect.
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The Thursday before the wedding, the branches began to open. Into bright green leaves. no flowers.
What the F.
This is where I really prove to myself how flexible I am in times of crisis. It wasn’t time to panic. It was time to act.
How do I get 100 stems of forsythia, in peak condition, 36 hours before I need it?
Two answers: Call a farmer. and cut it yourself.
THanks Leslie :)
Making A Plan
We try our best to represent what we’re shooting for before we do the real thing! We had a sample meeting with Larissa and her mom prior to the big day to get our bearings and see our plans in real life. We have these meetings about a month prior to the wedding to honor seasonality as accurately as possible. Images from our design deck (below) and our sample meeting (right) and the final product (far below)!
Larissa and Connor’s florals included some of April’s best offerings:
Tulips
Pieris
Ranunculus
Forsythia branches
Cherry Blossoms
Icelandic Poppy
Anemone
Sweet pea
Stock
Delphinium
Daffodil
Hyacinth
Wedding Photography:
Alicia Martire Photography
I’ll be the first one to say it: April is a highly underutilized month for weddings in the Hudson Valley! We have such an abundance of blooms and they are really showing off after the winter dormancy. I have such a sweet spot for flowering branches, blooms and darling garden stems. Give her a chance <3 Your florist will love you for it.