The perfect wedding day accessory is a beautiful, eye catching centerpiece matching your wedding style and color palette. Whether you are planning an outdoor country wedding, or an evening black and white affair, flowers will make all the difference. You can easily create an ambiance of majesty and splendor at your wedding reception with the…
There aren’t any real rules about who gets wedding-day flowers, but it’s nice to honor parents and stepparents, grandparents, any other immediate family members who are not in the wedding party, ushers, and the ceremony readers. A boutonniere is a small floral decoration that adds a refined finish to a formal suit or tuxedo and…
May through August is probably the most popular time of year for weddings. A summer wedding is full of sunshine and warmth, and is ripe for an outdoor setting such as a beach, a garden, or a beautiful yard. Take advantage of the long days of sunner with an afternoon wedding, or highlight a glorious…
We all know that mothers have always been valued and revered. During the time of the ancient Egyptians, red roses were associated with the goddess Isis; Mother of the Pharaohs. From the beginning of Egypt’s history to the end of its reign, Isis was the greatest goddess of Egypt. She was a beneficial goddess and…
Mother’s Day is coming, and flowers are a popular gift, so this seems like the appropriate time to talk about the traditional language of roses. For Mother’s Day, in the South, it is traditional to wear red roses on Mother’s Day to signify a living mother, and white roses to honor a mother who is…
Mother’s Day in America didn’t begin as a commercial holiday, but rather a call for peace and women’s activism. In 1870, horrified by the human devastation of the Civil War, Julia Ward Howe, the author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”, conceived of an International Mother’s Day in which women would come together and…
