Wedding Flowers, Bar-Bat Mitzvah Flowers, Quencinera Flowers, Special Event Flowers – Fresh or Silk?
Flower options for your wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Bat Mitzvah, quinceniera or sweet 16, event and – or special celebration
Congratulations! You are engaged!
You are now on your wonderful yet often frustrating journey from engagement to wedding.
It is a journey that will take you through many avenues and some forks in the road where you’ll have to stop, consider and choose a path.
The road we’ll take together is the one leading to the “fork in the road” to wedding flowers selection.
Like most brides and grooms, Bar-Bat Mitzvah parents, the parents of a quinceniera or sweet 16, event organizers for a work place or for a special occasion you are probably not a flowers mavens. Yet, all of a sudden you need to consider not only what flowers to use at your wedding, special celebration or event, but also what arrangements, for which designations and whether to use fresh or silk – satin flowers. This is quite a feat.
Hopefully this article will shed some light and help you decide how to proceed.
Today, you can select to proceed to the Fresh Flower road or you may opt for the Silk Flowers road.
Before you decide, however you must weigh the benefits and drawbacks you will encounter on either road traveled.
About Fresh Flowers
Traditionally, fresh flowers dominated the wedding and celebration receptions because the scent of fresh flowers fill the air with sweetness and empower the emotions.
However, fresh flowers are extremely expensive yet fade and wilt after just a few days.
Before you decide, you may wish to consider the following
Brides and grooms like to know the meanings of the flowers they choose. So we added the ones we know. Additionally the need to know which flowers are seasonal for their wedding date.
Following is a list of seasonal flowers and some of their meanings.
AUTUMN
Calla Lily: Magnificent beauty. Associated with the sixth wedding anniversary.
Chrysanthemum: Cheerfulness, optimism, rest, truth. Is the birth flower for November.
Chrysanthemum, red: I love
Chrysanthemum, white: Truth, loyal love
Dahlia: Instability. Associated with the fourteenth wedding anniversary
Daisy: Innocence, loyal love, associated with the fifth wedding anniversary.
Freesia
gladiolus: Strength of character, splendid beauty, is the birth flower for August.
Gypsophila
Hydrangea
Iris: Wisdom, faith, hope, valor, is associated with the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Lily: Purity, modesty, Chinese emblem for mother, associated with the twentieth wedding anniversary.
Micklemas
Morning Glory
Orchid: Love, beauty, refinement, Chinese symbol for many children, long life is associated with twenty-eighth wedding anniversary
Rose, cabbage: Ambassador of love
Rose, red: Love
Rose, pink Grace, beauty
Rose, yellow: Friendship
WINTER
Calla Lily: Magnificent beauty. Associated with the sixth wedding anniversary.
Carnation: Fascination, distinction, divine love, is the birth flower for January.
Carnation, pink: A woman’s love, I’ll never forget you, mother’s love
carnation, red: my heart aches for you, fascination
Carnation, white: Innocence, faithfulness, sweet and lovely, pure love, ardent love, good luck. And motherhood
Chrysanthemum: Cheerfulness, optimism, rest, truth. Is the birth flower for November.
Chrysanthemum, red: I love
Chrysanthemum, white: Truth, loyal love
Forsythia
Freesia
Gentian
Gypsophila
Holly Berries:
Iris: Wisdom, faith, hope, valor, is associated with the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Lily: Purity, modesty, Chinese emblem for mother, associated with the twentieth wedding anniversary.
Orchid: Love, beauty, refinement, Chinese symbol for many children, long life is associated with twenty-eighth wedding anniversary
Peony: happy life, happy marriage, good health, prosperity. Associated with the twelfth
Rose, cabbage: Ambassador of love
Rose, red: Love
Rose, pink:Grace, beauty
Rose, yellow : Friendship
wedding anniversary: Cheerfulness, optimism, rest, truth. Is the birth flower for November
Snowdrop
Stephanotis:
Winter Jasmine
SPRING
Amaryllis: Pride
Apple Bossums: Good fortune
Azalea
Bluebell: Constancy
Broom: Humility
Calla Lily: Magnificent beauty. Associated with the sixth wedding anniversary.
Camellia
Carnation: Fascination, distinction, divine love, is the birth flower for January.
Carnation, pink: A woman’s love, I’ll never forget you, mother’s love
carnation, red: my heart aches for you, fascination
Carnation, white: Innocence, faithfulness, sweet and lovely, pure love, ardent love, good luck. And motherhood
Cherry Blossom
Chrysanthemum: Cheerfulness, optimism, rest, truth. Is the birth flower for November.
Chrysanthemum, red: I love
Chrysanthemum, white: Truth, loyal love
Clematis
Cocus: Cheerfulness
Dffodil: new beginnings, yet, associated with the tenth wedding anniversary is the birth flower for March.
Dffodil, bunch: Joy, happiness.
Daisy: Innocence, loyal love, associated with the fifth wedding anniversary.
Forsythia
Freesia
Heather: wishes will come true.
Honeysuckle: Bonds of love
Iris: Wisdom, faith, hope, valor, is associated with the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Jasmine: Grace
Lilac
Lily: Purity, modesty, Chinese emblem for mother, associated with the twentieth wedding anniversary.
Mimosa
Orchid: Love, beauty, refinement, Chinese symbol for many children, long life is associated with twenty-eighth wedding anniversary
Polyanthus
Primrose: I can’t live without you
Rhododendron
Rose, cabbage: Ambassador of love
Rose, red: Love
Rose, pink Grace, beauty
Rose, yellow: Friendship
Stephanotis
Tulip, red : My perfect lover, Reclamation of love
Waxflower
SUMMER
Aster: Variety, elegance, daintiness.
Azalea
Calla Lily: Magnificent beauty. Associated with the sixth wedding anniversary.
Carnation: Fascination, distinction, divine love, is the birth flower for January.
Carnation, pink: A woman’s love, I’ll never forget you, mother’s love
carnation, red: my heart aches for you, fascination
Carnation, white: Innocence, faithfulness, sweet and lovely, pure love, ardent love, good luck. And motherhood
Chrysanthemum: Cheerfulness, optimism, rest, truth. Is the birth flower for November.
Chrysanthemum, red: I love
Chrysanthemum, white: Truth, loyal love
Cornflower: Delicate
Daisy: Innocence, loyal love, associated with the fifth wedding anniversary.
Delphinium
Freesia
Fuschia
Gardenia : Ecstasy
Gladiolus: Strength of character, splendid beauty, is the birth flower for August.
Heather : Admiration, wishes will come true.
hollyhock: Ambition, fruitfulness, is associated with the thirteenth wedding anniversary.
Iris: Wisdom, faith, hope, valor, is associated with the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
Jasmine: Grace
Larkspur
Lilac
Lily: Purity, modesty, Chinese emblem for mother, associated with the twentieth wedding anniversary.
Lupin
Marigold
Orchid: Love, beauty, refinement, Chinese symbol for many children, long life is associated with twenty-eighth wedding anniversary
Peony: happy life, happy marriage, good health, prosperity. Associated with the twelfth wedding anniversary: Cheerfulness, optimism, rest, truth. Is the birth flower for November
Rhododendron
Rose, cabbage: Ambassador of love
Rose, red: Love
Rose, pink Grace, beauty
Rose, yellow: Friendship
Stock
Sweatpea
Sweet William
ABOUT SILK FLOWERS – SATIN FLOWERS
Today Silk and satin flowers are becoming more and more popular. With craftsmanship and high quality materials such as silk and satin, and the many applications creative brides and grooms find for them, many couples prefer the artificial flowers for their weddings. Let’s find out why.
Some brides feel that silk flowers are “not the real” thing and even when they look too real to be distinguished, when you touch them they just don’t “feel” like real flowers. Other brides prefer silk flowers. The choice is yours. With some information at hand, choose the road you wish to travel and whether it is Real Flowers or Silk Flowers, have a pleasant trip, beautiful wedding and a happy, blessed life together.
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