If you intend to purchase wedding flower centrepieces with regard to medieval weddings you must first understand the part flowers played in them.
Typical flowers used in medieval weddings tended to be flowers that were of rich, bright hues and quite fragrant. Flowers for medieval weddings were used as symbols of fidelity, fertility and love and ranged from shades of purple, orange, red, yellow and green. When making wedding flower centrepieces wheat and herbs were also used so it is common to make bouquets, decorations and centrepieces out of rosemary, thyme and basil, sometimes even garlic.
Traditional medieval weddings tended to follow a distinct colour scheme as wedding flowers London will have you know.
First among them are orange blossoms which have always been a traditional choice flower. The origins can be traced back to the Crusades when knights who came back brought with them the Saracen tradition of creating orange blossom wreaths for wedding days. Orange blossoms were linked with chastity and purity in the Middle East and were quickly adopted by Medieval Europe. The nobility got the wind of the fad first and the white flowers of the orange blossoms, as well as their fragrant leaves, were in high demand especially among the high classes.
Another prize medieval wedding flower centrepieces were ones made with Glories lilies. The lilies came in bold shades of red and pink with yellow tips and were known to symbolise love. They also lasted a long time after they were cut and were easy to fashion into centrepieces and bouquets. They are, however, not really lilies although they are called as such and grow in vines. They have a red velvet-like appearance which is what makes them important in medieval wedding bouquets. They were known also as climbing Lily, glory Lily and flame Lily.
For wedding flowers, London, Parrot tulips are also very important in creating bright colour schemed medieval theme weddings. The petals of the parrot tulips tend to be curly or wavy with a feathery quality that gives it its name and were treasured as a sign of exotic and passionate love by the noble classes at the time. These tulips are also highly fragrant and are also used as a perfume during the wedding.
Parrot tulips also come in many wide varieties of colour, brilliant hues that add joy to wedding flower centrepieces in purple, red, apricot, white, orange and pink and sometimes a beautiful multi coloured variety, each colour a signifying symbol for the medieval people. If you can find some, use them!
A flower, that won lauds as a wedding flower during the medieval times and went on into the Victorian times, is the amaryllis, called €splendid beauty.They come in bright red, white, cream, pink orange and yellow and tell of a Greek myth where a maiden, whose name was Amaryllis, made the flowers for her lover from her blood. Cryptic, but lovely flowers for wedding flowers London.
