Finding The Right Wedding Bouquet For Your Napa Valley Wedding
It’s your big day. You’ve got your hair and makeup done, your dress and shoes match perfectly, but what about the bouquet?
This one piece the bride carries is a symbol of the bride’s connection with the earth and of good luck. Of course the bride is lucky – she’s getting married! She found that one person that makes her feel complete and wants to share that with her friends and family.
The culture of a bride carrying a bouquet and tossing it to her single female friends is a symbol of spreading her good fortune to her not-so-lucky chums. In keeping tradition alive, certain flowers have certain meanings, and depending on what you want to express, that should be how you pick your flowers.
One thing to remember above all else for your Napa Valley Wedding is to think LOCAL. Here’s a quick reference to a list of local/native plants to the Napa Valley area.
Now, let’s get onto the symbolism and meaning stuff.
Love
When you want to express your love, pick the red rose, white jasmine (which smells amazing), orange blossom, or the red carnation.
Friendship
There should always be a flower of friendship in your bouquet – not just for you and your friends, but for you and your groom. A strong friendship leads to a strong marriage. Flowers that symbolize this are the yellow rose and the Peruvian lily.
Purity
While it isn’t necessarily a custom to be PURE anymore before a wedding, there is still a thought that when you wed someone, you start a new life with them – you enter that union with a pure heart and mind, and everything after that is beautiful. Symbols of purity are white flowers, such as daisies, lilies, tulips and roses.
Luck
Since you are throwing your bouquet as a symbol of good luck to your single girlfriends, you might as well throw in some lucky flowers like White Heather, lavender roses and Bells of Ireland.
For whatever reason you have when you decide to create your bouquet, it’s important that it is a symbol of YOU. You will be the one holding it and passing it along to the next girl, so make it count and allow Adrian Tamblin Photography to capture that moment in time for you. In terms of important memories for the day, I believe it sits pretty close to the top of the list. Let Adrian Tamblin help you find the right Bouquet for your napa valley wedding.
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