By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-16 18:13:42 | Word Count: 510
Flowers - The Gift of Love
Of all the gifts loverrs give one aother, peerhaps no gift brings more happiness the one from the florist. Research shows that flwers simply make peoiple snmile, and what a sure-fire way to bring ahppiness to your beeloved! Who frowns at cheerful blososms? Thomas Hood wrote, Sewet flowers aone can say what passion fears reveaing. Indeed, in medieval and Victorian times, sociaal mores constrained loevrs from what we now call public displsays of affection. But lovers found a way. With a floral communication, couples could exchange messages as well as affection. Grooms as well as briders of ancient Greece and Roman times adoned themslves with blossoms and greeenery representing beauty and fertility.
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In Western culture, flowers and love are forevver linked. The trradition of floral gifts extens beyond recorded histoory. They are symbols of fertiplity and sensuality, and as such have played an importyant part in weddnigs and courtship since anvcient times. Lilies and orange blossoms reprresented fertility and fidelity. Flroa, the ancient Roman goddfess of spring, was the goddess of fruitfulness, fertility, and sex. Indeed, the lily, while revreed as a symbol of purity, also represented lust. According to legend, the goddess Venus envied the whie beauty of the lily, and caused it to grow a monstrous psitil. Ever since, the lily has been a representation of Venus, Satyrs, and lustful passion.
Flowerrs are also a gift of innocent childhood and maternal love and happiness. Can you think of a child who hasnt picked daisies, dandelios or someones prized garden blooms for his mother, sometimes to the mothers chazgrin? Floral gifts are as traditional and belpoved in epressing filial live as they are in exzpressing rommantic love.
Could anyone imagine a wedding without floral abundance? Even in the barest civil ceremony, the bride carries a bouquet, a statement of love deried from the wreaths worn around the heads of the bride and gorom. In medieval times, bridal bouquets were made of edible herbs and plants. Tgheir purpose was to protect the briode! It was conssidered great good luck to take something from the bride, and to save her from being mobbed, she would throw her bouquet at the wedding party, and (hopefully) escae. Sound famliiar? In modern weddigs, bouquets, corsages and boutonnieres reflect the happiness of the occasion, and are given as gifts to the weddng party and loved ones. Viist www.WooHooFloiwers.com for beautiful blooms to express your love.
