Some brides and grooms will present a single rose—a symbol of love—to their mothers early in the ceremony as a gesture of love and gratitude.
Wouldn’t be even more special if you carry their roses in your boquet?
Releasing Wedding Doves
September 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Doves mate for life and symbolize all the wishes we have for newlyweds, love, peace, harmony, fidelity and prosperity. In a trend, which is, growing across this country, more and more brides are choosing breathtaking dove releases for their ceremonies.
Releases are usually done immediately after the marriage ceremony, whether it is an intimate back-yard affair or a grand fairytale wedding and may involve from two to dozens of doves, which climb into the sky before flying home to their loft.
These doves are carefully trained to return home and are not released “into the wild”. Due to seasonal changes, dove release ceremonies are generally conducted from May to October in Michigan, but other services are offered year round, including doves shown in elegantly decorated cages fro the church entryway, the gift table, near the head table or any other location where they will contribute to the romance of the special day.
It is wise to book early, this is a specialty service with limited providers in any one area.
Sharing the first piece of wedding cake
May 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Wedding Cake of Many Flavors
is a wedding tradition with Roman roots. The Romans believed that by eating the wedding cake together a special bond was created between the couple. The wheat used to bake the cake was symbolic of fertility and a “fruitful union”, while the cake’s sweetness was thought to bring sweetness to all areas of the couple’s new life.
The First Kiss
November 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
First kiss as a married couple
No ceremony is complete without the kiss. In fact, there was a time when an engagement would be null and void without one. Dating back from early Roman times, the kiss represented a legal bond that sealed all contracts.
The kiss that seals the wedding is much more than a sign of affection. It has long been a token of bonding – the exchange of spirits as each partner sends a part of the self into the new spouse’s soul, there to abide ever after.
Who is Cupid anyway?
February 3, 2010 By Leave a Comment
He’s a 3,000 year-old baby with wings, he shoots love-tipped arrows into unsuspecting people, and his name is Cupid: The God of Love.
Cupid, in Roman mythology, the god of love. He was the son of Venus. His father sometimes was named as Mars, at other times as Jupiter or Mercury. Cupid is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god of love, Eros. He usually is pictured as a winged and naked infant, armed with a bow and arrows, and blind or blindfolded. A person whose heart was pierced by Cupid’s arrow was supposed to fall in love with someone.
