You love garden romance, but also sleek modern minimalism. You’re drawn to wild, airy florals and structured, sculptural design. Your collection of inspiration is beautiful, yet it all starts to blur together. A mood board that once felt inspiring begins to feel like a collection of contradictions.

Loving multiple styles is not a flaw. It reflects an expansive eye and a love for beauty in its many forms. But the journey from inspiration to cohesion requires a pause—a shift inward—so your wedding design reflects not just what you find beautiful, but what you feel deeply connected to.

Your Wedding Style Starts With Emotion, Not Aesthetic

Before you choose a theme, color palette, or era, pause and ask yourself: How do I want this day to feel?

Do you want the atmosphere to feel warm and nostalgic? Airy and ethereal? Refined and editorial? Joyful and full of color? Calm and grounding?

Let the feeling come first. That mood becomes the lens through which every design decision flows. When emotion leads, aesthetic naturally follows with clarity and meaning.

Look Inward Before Looking Outward

The most compelling weddings feel lived in, not layered on. They arise from personal memory, place, and rhythm—not from what’s currently filling your social feed.

Ask yourself:

• What colors surround you in your daily life?
• Which environments make you feel most like yourself?
• What season are you marrying in, and what natural elements are present during that time?
• Which textures, shapes, or sounds bring a sense of peace or joy?

Let yourself draw from moments that feel honest and intuitive. A walk through your grandmother’s garden. The stillness of a foggy beach morning. The textured linen on your kitchen table. Personal moments like these often hold more visual power than any trending image.

Curate Your Style With Intention, Not Just Collection

There comes a point when saving more images doesn’t bring clarity. Instead of adding more, begin to subtract. Reduce visual noise to find the few inspirations that resonate most.

Choose no more than ten to twelve images that stir something meaningful. Look beyond weddings. Pull from interior design, fashion editorials, landscapes, abstract art. 

Pay attention to pattern: what do your favorite images have in common? Is there a color you return to again and again? A texture that shows up in multiple places? A quality of light, shadow, or movement that you find yourself craving?

Write down the words that come to mind.

 Not just the adjectives like soft or romantic, but the sensory details: breeze, silk, amber, silence, dusk. Let those words inform tone and palette.

Let Your Creative Team Reflect You

The process of choosing your wedding style doesn’t require that you have all the answers. You don’t need to handpick every element in isolation. In fact, when you present a board of pre-chosen designs to your creative team, you skip ahead in the creative process which your creative team is there to help you with.

Instead, begin with finding your emotional and visual core, then share that with your planner, designer, and florist.

The role of a creative partner is to listen between the lines. To gather what you’re drawn to and reflect it back through intentional design. To notice not only what you saved, but how it made you feel.

Give them your handful of guiding images. Share the emotional cues. Trust their instincts to translate those elements into something immersive and beautiful. 

A well-chosen team doesn’t need rigid direction. They need vision, feeling, and a little space to create.

When Styles Seem to Conflict, Let Contrast Lead

Loving multiple aesthetics can feel like a problem to solve. 

But often, contrast becomes the defining element of the design. A wedding doesn’t need to fit neatly into one category. The most dimensional designs often hold two truths at once.

Garden textures can meet sculptural lines. Vintage objects can live alongside modern materials. A minimalist table can bloom with unexpected, painterly florals. When guided with clarity and emotional consistency, these contrasts complement instead of clashing.

They create a layered, expressive visual language that feels more alive than any single-theme approach.

If you’re caught between two or three styles, try naming the qualities you love in each one.

Is it the structure? The softness? The use of negative space? Once you name those traits, you’ll start to see how they might merge.

Finding Your Wedding Style Is a Process of Returning

The more clarity you seek, the more it helps to return to your original intention. 

Ask again: How do I want to feel on this day? What matters most? Where do I want my guests to be emotionally, visually, spiritually?

The answers to these questions give rhythm and depth to your vision. They bring peace to the planning process. They ground you in what is real and allow everything else—colors, textures, details—to flow from there.

Let’s Clarify Your Vision Together

At Mulberry & Moss, floral design begins with meaning. Every element of our process is built around your story, your senses, and your emotion. When we sit down to begin a design, we’re not looking for trends or references. We’re listening for tone, memory, rhythm.

If you feel full of ideas but unsure how to bring them together, we’d love to help you shape a vision that feels deeply cohesive. One that feels like home.