Bend Oregon Wedding Florist
There’s nothing quite like Bend and the surrounding Oregon High Desert - wild horses, rabbitbrush and sunny days - these resort venues offer both indoor and outdoor wedding spaces along with entertainment for guests! All of the following wedding venues make for a seriously stunning wedding backdrop. Here’s our list of the best wedding venues in Bend, flowers for your Bend wedding and our favorite Bend wedding planners to help you put it all together.
Bend Wedding Venues // Timeless, breathtaking views.
Brasada Ranch // Located just outside of Bend, Brasada Ranch has breathtaking 360 degree views of the high desert mountains it's nestled between. With multiple ceremony sites to choose from and private cabins for your wedding party and guests to spend the weekend, it makes for an easy, beautiful and relaxing experience. The Range Lawn and Rustic Barn can both accommodate larger wedding parties, while Trestle Pond is a beautiful spot for more intimate ceremonies. If you’re an adventurous couple looking for an intimate wedding location, Outback Butte is the spot. It’s only accessible by horseback and has stunning views that can’t be found anywhere else!
Sunriver Resort // Located under the wide expanse of desert sky outside Bend, Sunriver Resort has both indoor and outdoor ceremony and reception spaces. Mt Bachelor Lawn and Historic Great Hall have space to accomodate up to 350 guests, while Homestead Lawn and Heritage Hall can accommodate up to 80 guest. For adventurous couples wanting an intimate ceremony, Caldera Springs Lake and Lakehouse is that place, with a small private beach and fire pits.
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Hollinshead Barn // Located within Hollinshead Park, a part of Bend Parks and Recreation District, this old homestead is surrounded by beautiful orchard views. Ideal for a quite, intimate ceremony, Hollinshead Barn can seat up to 55 guests comfortably. A bit more rustic than the resort ranches listed above, Hollinshead Barn does has both private indoor and outdoor space for wedding celebrations.
Suttle Lodge // Less than an hours drive northwest of Bend, Suttle Lodge, in the Deschutes National Forest outside of Sisters, OR embodies chic, camp wedding vibes to the max. With options for lakes edge or forest ceremony and an intimate indoor reception space (or bigger reception space if you rent a tent) Suttle lodge is Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom wedding venue heaven! With boating, hiking, fishing, lounging, skiing and stargazing, Suttle Lodge transports you and your wedding crew into full-fledged adventurers. Got a bunch of city slickers on your guest list who aren’t up for venturing into the Oregon wild? No problem, they’ve got cozy cabins, huge fireplaces and great drinks at the bar. Plus, Suttle Lodge is super dog friendly too!
Wedding Flowers // Textures, tones and varieties.
Begin to think about your venue, the season of your wedding, your color palette and aesthetic. Are there any flowers that are meaningful and personal to you or close family members? Any floral scents that remind you of past travels or favorite moments in time? Your personal history both as individuals and together as a couple is a great place to start thinking about the flowers for your wedding and the space you want to create.
Think about the flow of your wedding from ceremony to reception throughout your venue (or venues) and start to design flowers for the most noticed spaces - ceremony altars and aisles, reception entryways, staircases and paths, guest table flowers, dance floors and lounge spaces. The flow of an event gives you the opportunity to play with different color stories from ceremony to reception or variation in flower varieties between arches, bouquets and table flowers. Make your wedding speak to your guests as being uniquely you, not only in the venue you choose and the dress you wear, but in the flowers you hold, dine and dance to.
Our Favorite Flowers for the High Desert!
The high desert is visceral, raw, windswept. It evokes a different sense of time with it’s rocky juniper and rabbitbrush covered expanses. The colors of Bend and the high desert are subtle in tone but bold in texture. Subtle neutral hues - tan, grey, blue, mustard, ochre, sage and mauve. Some people may find these colors dull and lacking richness, but we absolutely love them and find their subtle tones inspiring, highlighting their variations!
Texture Heaven // The high desert is saturated with delicious textures - wind warn, dried and formed long ago - seed pods, tumbleweeds, dried grasses, weathered branches, jagged rocks. Texture can be used to give variation and depth to a neutral color palette or enhance an already bold one.
Incorporating Color into your Florals // It only takes a touch of color to really pop against the neutral colors of the high desert. We suggest bringing warm colors into the desert palette to soften the harsh rocky outcrops and naturally cooler tones. Oranges, yellows, purples and reds compliment the desert surroundings with warmth and radiance.
Flowers for the High Desert // Our favorite flowers for Bend and the high desert are tender, understated and soft to compliment and enhance their surroundings. We want our flowers to play nice with the environment they’re in, not fight it. We take into account the setting and season our flowers will be in. Flowers that are right for an island elopement don’t belong in the desert and vice versa. We love these flowers for Bend weddings : ranunculus - with their many layers of petals and endless color variations, lisianthus - a variety of colors to match the high desert earth: sand, soil and clay, chocolate cosmos - with a delicate chocolate smell that their name suggests and tiny glistening golden stamens, Japanese anemone - cloud like heads with golden yellow centers atop long slender stems, garden roses - fragrant beauties with heavy heads and twisting stems, coneflower - bold strong centers surrounded by delicate and vibrant petals, lunaria - airy and shimmering seed pods, heuchera - distinctly veined leaves in colors of muted greens, browns, reds and golds and finally grasses - blue fescue, explosion grass, and delicate tufts of pampas.
How does Metal and Moss work with couples to design their flowers?
We work closely with all our couples to plan and execute their wedding flowers. We’re more than just your day-of florists, we’re part of your wedding team - familiar with your wedding venue, what flowers are in season and the best local growers with the finest flowers.
Here are a few ways we work along side our destination wedding clients to ensure their wedding vision is being understood, even if don’t get to meet in person until the wedding day:
Video Design Calls - Communicating and planning such a visual thing as flowers through email and text conversations can be really difficult. There’s lots of room for misinterpretation and confusion. We prefer to video chat with our destination wedding couples for the initial wedding flower consultation and major design meetings. There’s something about being able to see who you are talking to (even on video) that gets creative ideas flowing and real-time brainstorming happening.
Site Visits with You or for You - If you’ll be up in Bend to visit your venue before your wedding day, we can come along and walk though the space with you to help you envision the flowers for your day and the designs we have planned. If you won’t make it to your venue before your wedding day, we’re happy to do a venue walk through on your behalf and record a video as we go, talking about flower placement and flow throughout the space. If you have a wedding planner, we’d walk through your venue with them.
Mock-ups and Table Styling - For some couples, it’s helpful to see exactly what the table layout is going to be before their wedding day. Along with site visits, we meet with our couples at their rental companies or in our studio for table styling and floral mock-ups, so they can make sure the place settings and flowers match their vision, making any changes and add flower volume if necessary.
If you’re still looking for a florist for your wedding in Bend, we’d love to be considered! Book a consultation so we can learn more about you and your wedding flower vision.
Bend Wedding Planners // Modern, sophisticated and refreshing.
Marriage License Info for Oregon
To legally get married in Oregon you must get an Oregon marriage license, even if you are an out of state resident. Make sure to get your marriage license at least 3 days before your wedding. Although you can get a waiver request form from the Multnomah County Clerks Office if you’re in a pinch. You can either fill out an online form beforehand or apply for a marriage license in person at the County Clerks Office. You both must be present to pick up the license along with a $60 fee. Oregon law requires at least two witnesses (18+) to be present at the wedding ceremony.
Love in the High Desert // Brasada Ranch Wedding
We had the absolute pleasure of designing flowers for Caitlin and Joe’s high desert wedding at Brasada Ranch. We used this couple’s love for architecture, high desert textures and autumn tones as floral inspiration to create a stunning and magical Brasada Ranch wedding. Nestled between rabbitbrush bushes and the jagged rock landscape, these vibrant yet soft florals both enhanced and were at home in their surroundings.
Caitlin and Joe were so thoughtful and intentional in the decisions they made for their wedding. They came to us inspired by the textures and colors of the high desert as a source of material inspiration and physical backdrop, choosing Brasada Ranch as their wedding venue. Using their inspiration, we created textural florals with pops of color that beautifully captured the spirit of the high desert and the transition of the seasons from late summer to early autumn. A season still full of rich color and depth, combined with dried botanicals and textural elements so often found in Bend and the surrounding Oregon high desert - dahlias, coneflower, japanese anemones, rudbeckia, blue fescue grass, heuchera, chocolate cosmos, dried pods, lisianthus and yellow tomatoes on the vine. Photos by Laura Dart who captured the movement of our flowers in the high desert wind so beautifully. We had such a blast bringing their vision to life!
We absolutely love Bend and the Oregon high desert! If you’re still looking for a florist for your wedding in Bend, we’d love to be considered! Book a consultation so we can learn more about you and your wedding flower vision.