Weddings in Asheville
Written by Sugar Magnolia Flower Company
Being a wedding florist in Asheville requires a fairly specific skill set: flowers, obviously, but also weather forecasting, mountain-road navigation, emergency engineering, hydration, and a casual acceptance that weddings are a ride. A beautiful journey.
We’ve done weddings through a pandemic and a hurrican of biblical proportion. Hurricanes in the mountains? Yes, but hopefully just that one time. We’ve watched couples change dates, change guest lists, change venues, get married with twelve people standing six feet apart, and somehow still have the best day of their lives.
We’ve hauled flowers to the tops of mountains, through fancy hotels and to the middle of a fairway.
The farms here in WNC grow the most beautiful flowers. The venues open their doors. The caterers start cooking our signature mountain farm to table cuisine. The photographers climb mountains carrying forty pounds of equipment. The planners produce another emergency kit from somewhere. And the florists are back in the cooler at 6 a.m., staring at buckets of beauty and thinking,“God, I love this.”
That may be my favorite thing about weddings here.
Asheville is beautiful, but not in a polished, perfectly behaved way. It’s beautiful because it’s alive. The people that serve in the industry are the best of the best. The mountain light changes by the season, the day, the hour. The gardens and leaves do their color magic. The weather has opinions like a mountain grandmother. And the people who make weddings happen here have gotten extraordinarily good at adapting.
After more than twenty years of flowers, I’ve learned that the best weddings are a lot like gardens anyway. You plan carefully. You prepare for everything you can. Something completely unexpected happens. And, it’s still so predictably beautiful. Maybe even more perfect because of it.
