Best Dahlias for Wedding Designs

Photo by Michelle Ann Photography // Dahlia wedding arbor at Kin Loch Farmstead

Updated February 26, 2025

We grow 1,000+ dahlias on our 1-acre cut flower farm in Burt, NY. As a wedding florist and a cut flower supplier to other florists in Buffalo, we harvest thousands of dahlia stems every week during peak growing season. From the countless number varieties available to plant, how does one decide which dahlia varieties to grow for weddings!?

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Criteria for selecting dahlias for wedding floral design

There are a few criteria we take into consideration when choosing a dahlia variety to grow in our field.

COLOR is the most important factor when choosing dahlias to grow for wedding floral design.
- The most popular colors for weddings (the colors that seem to never go out of trend) are: white, champagne, blush, light pinks, peaches, bronze and burgundies.
PRODUCTIVE BLOOM is the second most important criteria for us when choosing dahlias to grow for our wedding design business. We want plants that will produce tons of blooms throughout the season, rather than less productive varieties that will take up space and require more maintenance than is worth the lesser amount of blooms.
VARIETY OF BLOOM SIZES AND SHAPES is also important to plan out your dahlia patch when designing for weddings. You’ll want a variety of ball dahlias, decorative dahlias and dinnerplate dahlias to fulfill different design requirements (ie. ball dahlias work fabulously in bouquets while dinnerplate dahlias bring the wow-factor to large statement pieces and arbors).
Related: 10 Ways to Make Your Wedding Meaningful & Unforgettable

side note: our dahlia-growing manifesto

I recently wrote a 216-page book all about growing dahlias called Growing Gorgeous Dahlias: The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Abundant Dahlias from Garden to Flower Farm. Everything we know about growing dahlias is found within these pages! For both beginner and experienced growers, I recommend getting yourself a copy or asking your library to purchase one for you to borrow!