20 Creative and Meaningful Flower Arrangement Ideas

Sweet 16 Birthday Flower Arrangements

Gift a bouquet of purple crocus for a 16-year-old’s big celebration. These blooms are total sweethearts and represent youthfulness and happy times.

Quinceñera Flower Arrangements

Fill their quinceñera bouquet with their personality and what they love. Roses make a fine choice for 15, but add in anemones for spiritual significance, including purple for protection against malicious spirits.

Anniversary Flower Arrangements for Your Parents

Let the peony work its magic for a wedding anniversary! Symbolic of marriage, prosperity and affluence, wish them well with peonies. If you want to go the extra mile, tie a note to the bouquet explaining their significance, especially since peonies are also linked to anger (which is probably not the look you’re going for). Ensure they know what message you’re trying to send!

Birthday Flower Arrangements After a Tough Year

Be there for someone after a tough year with lavender. Known for calm, peace and relaxation, its fragrant blooms will soothe a birthday person’s broken heart. Just make sure your friend or family member likes its very specific scent first. Combine with pansies for thoughtfulness and black-eyed Susan, which stands for justice.

Learn even more about birth flowers

Did you know that in addition to birth stones, each month has birth flowers (usually two) associated with it? Find out what the birth flowers are for your special person—and yourself—in this article.

Wedding Shower Flower Arrangements

Add myrtle to the bride’s shower decor or bouquet. Filled with wishes for a happy marriage, you can’t find a more marital meaning-maker!

Bridal Flower Arrangements

For the bride who craves simplicity, a single magnolia represents newness and purity. Carry this down the aisle and let your beloved marvel at all the joy coming their way.

Congratulatory Flower Arrangements

Deliver joy with the amaryllis! Its outstanding colours just say “wow” and radiate with pride. Add in a dahlia or two for bonus pomp.

Romantic Love Flower Arrangements

For Valentine’s Day or your wedding anniversary, you can’t go wrong with red roses, which signify desire and passionate love. For someone who adores lots of colour, add a variety of scarlet, hot pink and blush hues.

If you and your partner are besties first and foremost (because, like, duh!), add yellow roses to the mix. Note: Sometimes, yellow roses mean jealousy, so only give to your love if you know their opinions on this sunbeam of a bloom.

Thank You Flower Arrangements

Yellow lilies represent gratitude, so express your thankfulness with a bunch of these! Add in the sweet, citrusy freesia to signify friendship. Add some pop with coral roses to show your enthusiasm for a generous soul.

Mother’s Day Flower Arrangements

Pink flowers are perfection for all the moms. Give your mother, grandma, stepmama, fur mommy or auntie pink roses to symbolize grace and gratitude for all they do.

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Check out the four creative ways to wrap mom’s surprise bouquet. We’re betting you’ll both love them!

Baby Congratulations Flower Arrangements

Traditionally, pink and blue represent girl and boy, respectively, but today’s modern mamas, papas and parents are bound to receive a variety of colours. Cornflowers represent imminent love, hope and transformation and are a pretty flower type for new life.

Difficult Pregnancy Flower Arrangements

Representing fertility, ambition and that you care for someone quite deeply, gift the hollyhock to say you’re thinking of someone who’s hoping for a baby or going through a challenging pregnancy.

Rainbow Baby Flower Arrangements

Bring Mom baby’s breath to not only honour the new baby but remember the angel who came before.

Discover the language of flowers

Learn even more meanings behind those blossoms in our article about flower meanings. You might be inspired to put together a sweet arrangement for yourself. (And if so, we know you’d deserve it.)

Sympathy Flower Arrangements

To remember someone loved, send a rosemary plant, which stimulates memory. Gardeners in warmer climates can add it to their landscape, and they can even use the refreshing herb for cooking. Tuscan Blue Rosemary is a loving pick with its blue periwinkle blooms.

Thinking of You Flower Arrangements

Offer blue salvia to let them know you’re thinking of them. Attach a note with this flower’s meaning to add an extra touch of kindness and warmth.

Tough Times Flower Arrangements

The fiery red snapdragon represents positive energy. Also known for strength, give this fierce floral to someone who’s just as determined.

Funeral Flower Arrangements

The forget-me-not tells your loved one they’ll always be remembered. Place on a gravestone or frame a petite picture of the sensitive, soothing blooms and give to someone grieving.

Loss of Child Flower Arrangements

White flowers are lovely expressions for a grieving parent. A combination of white roses, irises, lilies and tulips is a sweet way to show just how much you care during such a difficult time.

What to say to someone who’s grieving

Sometimes it’s hard to find words that express just how much your heart is hurting for someone after they’ve lost a loved one. Our Hallmark writers have created a list of ideas for what to write in a sympathy card.