{"id":19,"date":"2009-09-30T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2014-04-29T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T21:43:45","slug":"the-history-of-the-bridal-bouquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/the-history-of-the-bridal-bouquet\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of the bridal bouquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered why the bridal bouquet is used today?\u00c2\u00a0 The bouquet actually dates back to ancient times.\u00c2\u00a0 Back then the bouquet didn&#8217;t consist of flowers though.\u00c2\u00a0 The bride would carry around bunches of garlic, herbs, and spices believed to ward off evil spirits.\u00c2\u00a0 In ancient Greece and Rome both the bride and groom wore garland around their necks symbolizing new life, hope, and fertility.\u00c2\u00a0 The garland also consisted of herbs and spices.\u00c2\u00a0 When Queen Victoria and Prince Albert got married in 1840 the herbs and spices were replaced with fresh flowers, mostly marigolds.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfect-wedding-day.com\/flower-meanings-bridal-flowers.html\" target=\"_blank\">In Victorian times flowers became the secret messengers of lovers; each flower having it&#8217;s own meaning.<\/a> The flowers that were chosen for the bouquet were chosen because of their meaning.\u00c2\u00a0 However in modern times flowers are chosen by the bride because of their shape and color.\u00c2\u00a0 They choose flowers that fit their style and personality.<\/p>\n<p>Works Cited:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The History of Bridal Bouquets.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Planning the Perfect Wedding Day. 11 Sept. 2009.\u00c2\u00a0 Perfect Wedding Day.\u00c2\u00a0 30 Sept. 2009 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perfect-wedding-day.com\/bridal-bouquets-history.html\">&lt;https:\/\/www.perfect-wedding-day.com\/bridal-bouquets-history.html&gt;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered why the bridal bouquet is used today?\u00c2\u00a0 The bouquet actually dates back to ancient times.\u00c2\u00a0 Back then the bouquet didn&#8217;t consist of flowers though.\u00c2\u00a0 The bride would carry around bunches of garlic, herbs, and spices believed to ward off evil spirits.\u00c2\u00a0 In ancient Greece and Rome both the bride and groom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/the-history-of-the-bridal-bouquet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The history of the bridal bouquet<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wedding-flowers-preservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}