Wedding Freesia: More Than Beauty

Freesias in many countries of the world are favorite flowers when making a bridal bouquet, decorating her hairstyle and dress, they are also often used to decorate wedding flower arrangements. Interestingly, in the language of flowers, freesia symbolizes pure and selfless love.

The widespread use of freesia in weddings is explained not only by the graceful appearance and wide range of colors of its flowers, but also by their aroma. Did you know that by coloring flowers and even their scent, you can convey your feelings and desires? The graceful shape of the freesia flower and its delicate aroma, similar to the subtle scent of perfume, evokes a special emotional response in the human soul. This fragrance is able to evoke memories of the best moments of life, which have a special place in your heart. All this makes freesia a wedding flower that will give you more than you might expect.

Color symbolism

Each color has its own meaning. Freesia flowers have a wide variety of colors: white, red, blue, yellow, pink, dark red and orange. And in some varieties of freesia, the flowers even have a two-color color. Thanks to such a rich palette, combining flowers of different tones, you can create your own unique message from freesias. Make your wedding special by choosing the freesia colors for your wedding decorations that best convey your feelings and desires:

white: virtue, sincerity and perfection;

red: passion, seduction and energy;
pink: romance, tenderness and joy;
orange: cheerfulness, warm feelings and fun;
yellow: energy, development and strength;
blue: innocence, generosity and immutability of feelings;
dark red: dignity, seriousness in a relationship, preparation for life.

Flowers at a wedding: interesting facts

Did you know that, according to etiquette, the bride must hold the wedding bouquet in her right hand until the official registration of the marriage? After that, she can hold the wedding bouquet in her left hand.

In the past, brides did not hold a bouquet in their hands, but decorated their hair with flowers or pinned flowers to the corsage of the dress. In addition to flowers and twigs of flowering shrubs and trees, which have their own symbolic meaning, in wedding bouquets they used such plants, unexpected in our modern view, as garlic, chives and dill to ward off evil spirits.
Did you know that in Europe, perhaps the biggest money is spent on wedding flowers by English newlyweds? In Great Britain, the amount of money spent on flowers for a wedding can reach 1,000 euros, but the Dutch, Germans and French are ready to spend on average only 500 euros on them.
In many European countries, there is a tradition to give white freesias to your husband or wife on a 7-year wedding anniversary as a reminder of the wedding day and a symbol of unfading conjugal love.