Color story

Blush & Cream dahlias

The wedding palette. Creams, champagnes, and barely-there pinks that made dahlias the bouquet flower of the last decade.

These palettes are our editorial groupings. The ADS classifies color separately with 15 formal classes; profiles note both where verified.

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Fa. D. Bruidegom, 1967

Cafe au Lait

Creamy blush that shifts through ivory, champagne, peach, and dusty rose, often varying bloom to bloom. Farms note that no two flowers are quite alike.

Informal DecorativeSells out fast
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Paul Bloomquist, 2017

Bloomquist Blush

Idlewild Blooms describes creamy butter yellow with a soft pink blush and a delicate rose picotee edge. Triple Wren sells it as clear cream with a lavender picotee. Either way, the edge detail is the draw.

StellarSells out fast
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Pieter Lindhout, Lindhout Ornata, 2006

Sweet Nathalie

A light blend in champagne and bisque, a soft neutral that shows more blush early in the season.

Formal Decorative BBWidely available
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Hybridizer unverified

Platinum Blonde

A flat ivory collar of ray petals around a dense, fuzzy pincushion center of butter-yellow florets. The RHS describes white anemone-shaped flowers with prominent creamy yellow centres.

AnemoneLimited supply
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Kristine Albrecht, 2015

KA's Cloud

White brushed with a soft blush, the cream-and-pink wedding palette that made it famous. The blush reads stronger in cool weather and fades toward clean white in heat.

Informal Decorative ALimited supply
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Cunningham, 1986

Shiloh Noelle

Pale blush-lavender white. Early blooms lean yellow-pink, while fall blooms shift toward lavender and white.

Informal Decorative AASells out fast
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Peter Haslhofer, 2014

Hapet Champagne

A light blend of soft cream and blush washed with apricot and lemon, deepening toward a lemon sorbet center. The center color intensifies late in the season.

Laciniated BSells out fast
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Kristine Albrecht, 2021

KA's Mocha Maya

Cream to soft pink washed with muted tan mocha tones, the signature smoky look of the Mocha line. The dusty cast is what florists prize for moody, neutral arrangements.

Informal Decorative BBSells out fast
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Hybridizer unverified, 1986

Appleblossom

Light yellow shifting to pale pink, with petals Triple Wren describes as small watercolor paintings.

CollaretteLimited supply
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R. I. M. Bisschops, 2002

Breakout

A light blend of creamy pink warming to a soft butter yellow center.

Informal Decorative AWidely available
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Hybridizer unverified

Valley Porcupine

A light blend of soft pastels on a tiny, spiky novelty bloom, the kind of oddity show judges reward.

Novelty Fully DoubleLimited supply
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Richard Parshall, 2017

Clearview Jonas

A soft light blend on a large semi-cactus, the spiky form in gentle pastel tones.

Semi-Cactus ALimited supply
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Hybridizer unverified, 2010

AC Ben

A soft light blend on a giant semi-cactus, a spiky dinnerplate at the very top of the size scale.

Semi-Cactus AALimited supply
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Kristine Albrecht, 2019

KA's Champagne

Buttercream and lemon-blush, a cream bloom with a soft blush at the petal base. The pale champagne tone is exactly the muted neutral wedding designers reach for.

Stellar BSells out fast
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Kristine Albrecht

KA's Mocha Jo

Blush pink with tawny parchment accents, the most layered color in the Mocha line. The parchment edges give each bloom a soft, antique cast.

Formal Decorative MSells out fast