Spring Wedding Flowers at New Orleans Country Club

Spring weddings and peachy-pink flowers are a pretty perfect combination.

For this wedding at New Orleans Country Club, we designed the florals around a soft spring palette of blush, pale pink, peach and fresh green. From the moment guests arrived, flowers were part of the experience—starting with a statement entrance and continuing through the dining rooms, stage, bars and personal flowers.

The result was romantic and garden-inspired, with plenty of those incredible spring flowers we wait all year to use.

entrance flowers greet guests as they arrive at New Orleans Country Club

A Floral Entrance at New Orleans Country Club

I love a good statement entrance. It's the first opportunity to tell guests, it's time to party.

We started early that morning decorating the entrance canopy at New Orleans Country Club. Overhead, we swagged lush trailing smilax to soften the structure and make the space feel more intimate.

The family wanted guests to experience a major floral moment before they even walked inside, and the entrance set the tone for everything that followed.

hanging roses from overhead

Then came one of my favorite details: 150 individual rose stems suspended from the greenery at varying heights. Guests literally walked beneath the roses on their way into the club.

over the door floral arch install at New Orleans Country Club

To finish the entrance, we created a lush floral installation approximately 10 feet wide over the doorway, filled with pink and peach flowers and trailing greenery.

Bringing the Flowers Inside

Once guests entered New Orleans Country Club, we created a smaller echo of the exterior installation around the entry table and chandelier.

guest book entrance at New Orleans Country Club wedding

We added delicate greenery to the chandelier with a few suspended roses, then designed a lush floral hedge for the center of the entry table surrounded by candlelight.

It carried the spring garden feeling indoors without simply repeating what guests had already experienced outside.

A 24-Foot Floral Stage Front

One of my favorite ways to make an impact at a reception is a floral stage front.

It's directly in guests' sightline throughout the evening, becomes part of the backdrop once dancing begins, and—something worth considering when deciding where to invest in wedding flowers—it appears in so many reception photographs.

For this wedding, we created a 24-foot floral stage front filled with garden roses, pink hydrangeas and greenery.

planter box stage front florals

Because the stage florals already made such a significant statement in the room, we didn't need to add flowers everywhere simply for the sake of adding them. That's something we think about when designing a wedding as a whole: where will flowers have the greatest impact?

Tall and Low Wedding Centerpieces

For the dining spaces, we mixed tall floral arrangements with our signature low, lush compote designs.

I love using different centerpiece heights because they give a room dimension. The taller arrangements draw your eye through the space, while lower garden-style flowers create beautiful moments at table level.

dining room overview

At the base of the tall arrangements, we added petite floral compotes and candles. Those smaller pieces filled the space beneath the elevated flowers and brought the color palette back down to the table.

tall glass arrangement surrounded by petite compotes and candles

On the remaining tables, we used low brass compotes overflowing with spring flowers and greenery.

When we're designing wedding flowers in New Orleans, we look at the entire room rather than treating every table as an individual arrangement. Mixing scale, height and vessel styles helps the flowers feel layered and intentional throughout the reception.

low, lush brass compote of garden style flowers

dining room at a New Orleans Country Club wedding, tall and low arrangements

Flowers Beyond the Dining Tables

Centerpieces aren't the only opportunity for flowers at a reception.

At New Orleans Country Club, the mantels, bars and lounge areas gave us several places to continue the palette without overwhelming the rooms.

We decorated the Founder's Room mantel with flowers and candles, while the main mantel was intentionally left untouched because the band would obscure it. Instead, the floral stage front provided the statement in that room.

Founder's Room mantel decor

At the bars, small floral hedges brought in touches of blush and peach. We also added one of our garden-style brass compotes to the neutral and blush lounge furniture from Distressed Rentals.

a lush little bar accent hedge at New Orleans Country Club

These smaller floral moments help connect the different spaces of a wedding so the design feels cohesive from room to room.

Those pink hydrangeas were the start of the show.

lounge space by Distressed Rentals

And another unique way to add a pop of color at your wedding is the lounge space. Here we used one of our fave garden brass compotes to accent Distressed's beautiful neutral and blush lounge furniture.

A beautiful spot for guests to relax with a cocktail.

A Spring Bridal Bouquet in Blush, Peach and Pink

And then there are the personal flowers.

I love designing bouquets. I love choosing the flowers, working through the colors and finding the combination that feels just right for the bride.

springtime palette bridal bouquet

Spring flowers make that particularly easy.

For this bridal bouquet, we started with a neutral base and added blush, pale pink and peach. Garden roses, full peonies and peach ranunculus gave us that loose, romantic spring feeling we wanted.

When we received the gallery from Catherine Guidry, I loved seeing how beautifully the flowers worked with the bridesmaids' floral-print dresses. Each detail complemented the next without feeling overly matched.

It really was springtime in a bouquet.

bridesmaids bouquets in spring hues

Planning Wedding Flowers at New Orleans Country Club

Every space at New Orleans Country Club offers a different opportunity for floral design—from the entrance canopy and dining rooms to the stage, mantels and bars.

For this wedding, we didn't try to put flowers on every available surface. Instead, we concentrated them where they could create memorable moments: an entrance guests walked through, a stage front that became part of the evening's backdrop, layered reception tables and beautiful personal flowers.

That's how we approach full-service wedding floral design at Leaf + Petal looking at the wedding as a whole and deciding where flowers will have the most impact.

Planning a wedding at New Orleans Country Club? Contact Leaf + Petal to tell us about your celebration.

photography: Catherine Guidry

venue: New Orleans Country Club

planning: Kate David Events

rentals: Distressed Rentals