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Rose Meaning: Magnificent Beauty
& "I love you"
In more elegant days, flowers were used as a means of communication.
Each Flower had a special meaning. The Calla Lily meant:
Magnificent Beauty.
In the old language of flowers, a
single red rose always meant "I love you".
The Rose ceremony gives
recognition to the new and most honorable title of "Husband and Wife".
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When you're thinking
about personalizing your reception, some obvious ideas should
come to mind. One of the easiest ways to customize your
celebration is to choose a certain flower like the Rose or Calla
Lily, or a combination of the two. Since Calla Lilies are
more expensive, combining them with Roses is an excellent way to
help save money on your floral budget.
The key to pulling off a coordinated
event: Evoke your theme throughout the affair. Whether that
theme is as general as a season or a feeling, or as specific as
a special flower, it should be the subtle thread that ties
everything together. Your location, invitations, flowers, menu,
cake, and favors should all cleverly reflect one common concept.
Then, get as creative as you can!
Rose Reception Decorations
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If you love Roses
& Callas go far beyond carrying
Roses & Callas in your bridal & bridesmaid's bouquets. |
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roses and petals on your registry table. |
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Place 8", 10" and 12"cylinder vases
in the center of the table, fill each vase with gel beads
and one floating candle and set on a mirror. Scatter votive candles
down length of
the table. Place one or two roses in a cylinder
bud vase and set one on either side of the
center cylinder set. Tuck a single rose or mini
calla into a napkin
at each place setting and eliminate the need for a separate wedding favor.
As an alternative
have your caterer fold your
napkins in a rose pattern and place in the center of each guest
plate.
Have napkins imprinted with a
rose or calla design with your names and wedding date on each napkin.
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Scatter rose petals around
a candle bowl. Fill the bowl with water and
arrange 3-4 mini callas inside the bowl.
Twisting the calla around the inside of the
bowl, just below the water level with one calla
bloom extending out of the water just above the
rim of the bowl. Add 1 or 2 floating candles.
Beautiful and elegant arrangement.
To scatter roses on tables we recommend 1 bag per 5 tables for a
light scatter and 2 bags per 5 tables if you want a heavier
look.Place a ring of roses around a
crystal ice bucket.
Decorate the
layers of your cake with roses and tuck Callas
into the greenery at the base of the cake.
Place vases of
Roses and Callas on the cake table and buffet
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| Put a vase of roses in the ladies'
room. If there is a long counter in the room place bud vases with
roses down the entire length of the counter or
place mini calla in the bud vases and sprinkle
rose petals around the vases. Have guests toss rose petals
rather than rice or birdseed. For tossing, most brides have been
using 1 bag per 25 guests (each bag represents approximately
40-50 heads worth of petals, approximately 20 cups) Some
of our brides have stretched the bag to cover 50 guests. |
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Another wedding
using Pink Roses and White Calla Lilies, White Dendrodium
Orchids and White Spider Mums.
At this
wedding the bride combined three white standard Calla Lilies, 2
stems of white Dendrodium Orchids and curly willow in
tall vases for a dramatic center arrangement on 16 ft
long
banquet tables.
Four inch square votive candle holders
sat on either side followed by rectangular vases of Pink
Roses. Next 4" square vases were filled with white spider mums,
and at the end of each table 3" square votive candles
were placed. The runner down the center of
the table was 4" black gossamer. White Gossamer (19") was used
to make the chair caps. The chair caps were covered with
white tulle and tied with pink ribbon. For more pictures
of this wedding see our Calla
Lilies Wedding Ideas.
The Rose
Ceremony
The Rose
Ceremony may be added to any other wedding ceremony.
In the Rose Ceremony, the Bride and Groom give each other a Rose. Two
roses are all that is necessary. The Rose Ceremony is placed after the
"vows" and just before being pronounced husband and wife.
This is a unique and meaningful addition to any marriage ceremony that
also inspires your guests too. This ceremony originates from a classic
rose ceremony from a lost and elegant age. Though the words of the Rose
Ceremony you explain the true meaning of the ceremony - and in ways
that can endure through your married life together.
Words of the Rose Ceremony:
"Your token to each other for your wedding today has been your
wedding rings - which shall always be an outward demonstration of your
vows of love and respect; and a public showing of your commitment to
each other.
You now have what remains the most honorable title which may exist
between a man and a woman - the title of "husband" and
"wife." For your first gift as husband and wife, that gift
will be a single rose.
In the past, the rose was considered a symbol of love and a single rose
always meant only one thing - it meant the words "I love
you." So it is appropriate that for your first gift - as husband
and wife - that gift would be a single rose.
Please exchange your first gift as husband and wife.
(Sometimes a couple will play a special song at this point).
In some ways it seems like you have not done anything at all. Just a
moment ago you were holding one small rose - and now you are holding
one small rose. In some ways, a marriage ceremony is like this. In some
ways, tomorrow is going to seem no different than yesterday. But in
fact today, just now, you both have given and received one of the most
valuable and precious gifts of life - one I hope you always remember -
the gift of true and abiding love within the devotion of marriage.
_________ and _____________, I would ask that where ever you make your
home in the future - whether it be a large and elegant home - or a
small and graceful one - that you both pick one very special location
for roses; so that on each anniversary of this truly wonderful occasion
you both may take a rose to that spot both as a recommitment to your
marriage - and a recommitment that THIS will be a marriage based upon
love.
In every marriage there are times where it is difficult to find the
right words.
It is easiest to hurt who we most love. It is easiest to be most hurt
by who we most love.
It might be difficult some time to find words to say "I am
sorry" or "I forgive you"; "I need you" or
"I am hurting". If this should happen, if you simply can not
find these words, leave a rose at that spot which both of you have
selected - for that rose then says what matters most of all and should
overpower all other things and all other words.
That rose says the words: "I still love you."
The other should accept this rose for the words which can not be found,
and remember the love and hope that you both share today.
__________ and ________, if there is anything you remember of this
marriage ceremony, it is that it was love that brought you here today,
it is only love which can make it a glorious union, and it is by love
which your marriage shall endure."
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