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| FLOWER Language
The language of flowers
updates by Shelley Waugh


Kate Middleton's flower choices for her wedding bouquet and wedding cake

Eternal love, beauty and endurance... these are just some of the special meanings of flowers that are used when brides are choosing the flowers to tie in with their wedding theme that include bouquets, boutonniéres, wedding cake decorations and the ceremony and reception décor.


The eight-tier royal wedding cake, above, that was designed and made by Fiona Cairns for Prince William and Catherine Middleton's wedding on April 29, 2011, featured 17 different flower designs, each symbolizing a particular quality.

In all there were 900 individually iced flowers.

Symbolizing the national symbols of England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland were white rose, daffodil, shamrock and thistle respectively.

The cake was decorated with cream and white icing using the Joseph Lambeth technique – a style of decorating a cake in which intricate piping is used to create three dimensional scroll-work, leaves and flowers and that the method ensures a traditional looking, elegant wedding cake.

Each of the 17 different flower designs on the official wedding cake has their own individual meaning according to the Language of Flowers.

They include:
    • White Rose - National symbol of England
    • Daffodil – National symbol of Wales, new beginnings
    • Shamrock – National symbol of Ireland
    • Thistle – National symbol of Scotland
    • Acorns, Oak Leaf – Strength, endurance
    • Myrtle – Love
    • Ivy – Wedded Love, Marriage
    • Lily-of-the-Valley – Sweetness, Humility
    • Rose (Bridal) – Happiness, Love.
    • Sweet William – Grant me one smile
    • Honeysuckle – The Bond of Love
    • Apple Blossom – Preference, Good Fortune
    • White Heather – Protection, Wishes will come true
    • Jasmine (White) – Amiability
    • Daisy – Innocence, Beauty, Simplicity
    • Orange Blossom – Marriage, Eternal Love, Fruitfulness
     • Lavender – ardent attachment, devotion, success, and luck

Catherine Middleton's Bride's Bouquet
The bouquet designed by Shane Connolly, is a shield-shaped wired bouquet of myrtle, lily-of-the-valley, sweet William and hyacinth.

The bouquet draws on the traditions of flowers of significance for the Royal Family, the Middleton family and on the Language of Flowers.

The flowers’ meanings in the bouquet are:
• Lily-of-the-valley – Return of happiness
• Sweet William – Gallantry
• Hyacinth – Constancy of love
• Ivy: Fidelity; marriage; wedded love; friendship; affection
• Myrtle: the emblem of marriage; love.

The bouquet contains stems from a myrtle planted at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, by Queen Victoria in 1845, and a sprig from a plant grown from the myrtle used in The Queen’s wedding bouquet of 1947.

The tradition of carrying myrtle begun after Queen Victoria was given a nosegay containing myrtle by Prince Albert’s grandmother during a visit to Gotha in Germany.

In the same year, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought Osborne House as a family retreat, and a sprig from the posy was planted against the terrace walls, where it continues to thrive today.

The myrtle was first carried by Queen Victoria eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, when she married in 1858, and was used to signify the traditional innocence of a bride.

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