Stephanotis Wedding Bouquet: A Traditional And Beautiful Choice

A stephanotis wedding bouquet is a traditional and beautiful choice for your wedding. Stephanotis is among the tried and true wedding flower favorites because its rich white to ivory colored star shaped blossoms have long symbolized marital happiness. In a practical sense, the lovely blooms are beautifully compatible with a broad range of other flowers and greenery, and serve well in the creation of lovely, unique bouquets. A stephanotis wedding bouquet offers a historically elegant touch to a very special day.

This richly scented flower is also known as Madagascar jasmine, and has graced bridal bouquets for many years. The name comes from its rich jasmine like fragrance, but in truth, it is no relation to true jasmine. However, most of the 13 different varieties do originate in Madagascar.

The delicate flowers are supported by sturdy stems, which when used in their more natural state are easy to work with in the creation of a beautiful stephanotis wedding bouquet. Using just the blooms themselves is a bit more of an involved process. Its long wedding history is belied by its other common name - Bridal Wreath.

Through the decades, there have been a variety of bridal bouquet fashions that have come and gone. Due to its traditional association with weddings, its rich fragrance, and classic beauty, a stephanotis wedding bouquet has been a part of each bridal bouquet fashion trend for decades.

The stephanotis has always been a tasteful choice for any type of bridal bouquet, from the simple posy style popularized during the Victorian era, decorated with a bit or ribbon or lace to the grand and showy shower style wedding bouquets popular in the 1910s and 1920s, featuring an almost overwhelming abundance of flowers, trailing ribbon and lace to the modern looks of today.

Because the waxy white stephanotis flowers come from a climbing evergreen with rich, dark green leaves, a stephanotis wedding bouquet can be designed with a variety of greenery, working well with either dark or lighter shades of green. If you want to keep the scent of the stephanotis pure and strong, however, you'll definitely want to give some consideration to the types of greenery you choose to use, being careful not to select a type of greenery that has a contrasting or competing scent.

Another old wedding tradition from the Victorian era is becoming popular again, like the stephanotis wedding bouquet, the preservation of the wedding bouquet through pressing and drying the flowers and then using them to create a special memento picture, under glass and beautifully framed.

A stephanotis wedding bouquet, highlighted with lovely greenery, can make a wonderful wedding bouquet picture. The flowers will dry in a slightly yellow ivory color, producing a beautifully old-fashioned Victorian era look, which can be enhanced by the frame selection.

Stephanotis flowers are marvelously versatile, and can be used in ways that reflect their traditional meanings and wedding associations or in ways that are more in line with their thoroughly modern popularity. A stephanotis wedding bouquet adds a beautiful touch to any wedding, modern or traditional.