Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Complement Your Natural Beauty Through Wedding Flowers

Choosing the wedding flowers is a big decision for the bride and not an easy one. From the bouquet to the reception tables, flowers play a huge part in making your wedding day look beautiful. Flowers were first used in wedding’s to symbolize love, life, fertility, and purity of the bride and groom. The groom usually wears a flower that is in the bride’s bouquet to indicate his never-ending love for the bride. Bouquets most often have herbs and flowers in them. Sometimes dill is also present to help promote desire. Flowers are the perfect way to add your personal touch to your wedding day.

One of the first things you should consider when looking at wedding flowers, is color and greenery. The bridal bouquet should match the wedding dress and other decorations that are being used. You can use ribbon, beads, and other decorative items to help with the color.

Some brides choose wedding flowers to use because of their meaning. Here is a list of the flowers that are used the most in weddings today and what they stand for:

-Roses: red and white roses are both used in weddings, red roses symbolize pure love and white roses symbolize innocence.

-Lily’s: the Calla lily stand for beauty and the white lily stands for purity.

-Red tulip: means vowel of love

-White carnation: symbolizes beauty

-Babies breath: signifies a pure heart

-Blue violet: signifies faithfulness

-Ivy: stands for love and fidelity

Flowers play a significant role in any wedding. They can reflect many things such as heritage, personality, and the love of the couple. Choosing the right wedding flowers for your special day isn’t easy and takes some consideration. If you need help finding flowers to use go to your local greenhouse and ask a professional to help you out. All the difficult decisions will be worth it when you see how beautiful everything looks on your wedding day.

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