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| Victorian Wedding Flowers by Nikki Dettmar For years I have dreamt of ornate roses, delicate stephanotis & other flowers arranged in cascading styles for my wedding day. They would be similar to the old black & white pictures I have seen in family photo albums, but in the living vivid colors of today. Given the modern designs most florists use, I thought they were an impossibility as I had never seen an arrangement that came close until one day when I was searching the Internet for 'Victorian flowers' and met up with Laura the owner of The Victorian Bride Initial polite inquiries turned into pages of exchanged letters, and a friendship was born between us. I learned that the beautiful flowers I saw on her website would not only last for my wedding day, but possibly for centuries! Laura personally revived a lost art that began during the 1700s of dipping flowers in a thin layer of beeswax, a method that became highly popular during the Victorian era for bridal bouquets. The beeswax-dipped flowers feel soft & silky to the touch, not sticky or waxy, and they will last for years to come unlike traditional flower arrangements that can wither & fade within hours. I now use my altar flower arrangements as a lovely mantle decoration, and the bouquet is housed in a wedding display including my veil, toasting flutes & a Victorian silver sixpence in the living room. I now dream of the day when my future daughter or perhaps even granddaughter will consider carrying the same bouquet down the aisle that I did... or perhaps that will be too 'old-fashioned' for them to have 'turn of the millennium' flowers! If you would like to see more pictures of how these truly unique flowers were used for our wedding.  "What's Your Wedding Theme?" , write a detailed description, include a photo (if available) and send it to A-Wedding Day for possible publication. |
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