Category Wedding

12 Jan

Bouquets

By Marsha Heckman

Bridal Bouquets Historically the Bride’s bouquet was a little bunch herbs carried to ward off jealous evil spirits and to bless the couple with abundance and fertility. Roman brides carried wheat, in Tudor England they held marigolds, thought to be aphrodisiac, and ate them at the wedding feast, Victorian brides embellished their flowers with sentimental…