When Wedding Florists Design Their Own Florals

Oct 29

A man in a cream shirt, rust pants, emerald shoes, and a color-blocked lei beside with a woman in a rainbow floral dress and an orange and purple flower crown. They sit before a half-circle of rainbow blooms and green cliffs against a vast ocean.

In case you didn’t know, Floralette is powered by a husband-wife team, Alex and Misa—hi! But when we got married ten years ago in 2015, we weren’t actually wedding florists yet. And while we had a perfect day saying I do in front of our favorite people, we’ve often looked back and thought about what we would have come up with had we designed our own florals. Fast forward to 2025, we decided to celebrate our first decade as a married couple by renewing our vows in an intimate ceremony. And when it came to the flowers…well, we went all out.

THE CEREMONY

At Floralette, we are big fans of color. So naturally we built a half circle of vibrant rainbow blooms, in a rainbow gradient no less. We used a whole lot of dahlias and gerberas, ranunculus and roses.

On the lightest end of the rainbow there were quite a few giant custard-yellow roses, a variety bearing the same name as Misa’s mom: Antonia! (We thought that was pretty cute.) And fun fact: Even though fewer than ten percent of all flowering plants produce blue blossoms, we prefer not to use dye to achieve results. So that just means the flowers populating the cooler end of the rainbow (stock, delphinium…) are a little extra special.

THE FLOWER CROWN

Misa here! Since I carried a bouquet as a bride, I wanted to design something a little different for myself as a wife of ten years. That’s how this pretty little flower crown was born. I crafted it with a few of my favorite blooms: roses, orchids, dianthus, and two types of ranunculus. And the dainty but hardy filler flower pulling it all together is called statice. The final result made me feel like a queen :,) Can you tell I miss it??

THE LEI

While we ordered in Misa’s gorgeous puakenikeni lei, we made Alex’s lei in house. It was an eclectic flower-blocked lei guided by color, and here’s what was in it: Amid a variety of strung seeds, there were green orchids and burgundy plumeria—and those bird-of-paradise-esque tropics are actually a variety of heliconia. All those ingredients were almost entirely locally sourced, and you better believe this lei looked and smelled like home.

THE PHOTO SESH

We asked one of our favorite Maui photographers, Lexi Harry, to document our vow renewal, and she clearly did an incredible job. Best part, when she moved our half circle in tighter around us for these magic meadow shots. Every second of this day was just the best… 10/10 would marry each other again.