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Make your wedding bouquet meaningful and declare your thoughts and feelings through the flowers that you choose to include in your bouquet. Choose your flowers by the hidden meanings, fragrance and symbolic colours of each bloom.

As with medieval weddings, this tradition still carries on today. The recently wedded Kate Middleton's wedding bouquet included a floral code carried on from Queen Victoria's times being lily of the valley meaning - trustworthy, myrtle meaning - hope and love and the maple trees used in the abbey meaning - humility and reserve.

Below I list a brief guide as to the meanings and symbolic colours of different flowers.

Try adding a few of your chosen meaningful blooms to bouquets, arrangements and floral displays at your wedding and really say it with flowers.

Say it with flowers - the hidden language of love

What different colours symbolise:

Blue - Trustworthy, dependable and committed. A very popular colour for weddings.

Green - Meaning fertility and life, self respect, well being and balance. A colour that works well in most settings.

Yellow - Happiness, enlightment, optimism. Carries of the promise of a positive future.

Orange - Fun, flamboyant, warmth and energy. A broad colour for a broad outlook.

Red - Passion, commands attention, immediate attention. A very demanding and striking colour.

Pink - Youthful, exciting and fun, high energy. Regarded as a lighthearted colour.

White - Purity, cleanliness and neutral. Indicates a fresh start with purity and innocence. The most popular colour or weddings.

Purple - A balanced colour, creative and innovative.

Meaning of flowers:

Allium - good fortune Hydrangea - boastful

Amaryllis - pride Lily - virtue

Anemone - abandonment Orchid - ecstasy

Anthurium - attraction Ranunculus - charm

Bouvardia - enthusiasum Red rose - love

chrysanthemum - hope Yellow rose - jealousy

Daisy - innocence Tulip - hopeless love

Delphinium - swiftness White rose - silence

Freesia - calm Sunflower - power

Gerbera - purity Poppy - dreams

Gladioli - natural grace Hyacinth - young love

Heather - Passion

The Secret Language Of Flowers - Choose your blooms for their hidden meanings. Read Our Guide Here.

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