This week it will have been a year since someone very special to me passed away. While the grey skies and flurries seem fitting for the feeling of the moment, it got me thinking about all the things that people do when planning their weddings to honour and remember someone special who has passed on.
It may something as simple as a locket with a picture in it that is tied to the handle of a bridal bouquet or a single stem of a flower in that person’s favourite colour placed inside a wedding ceremony arrangement.
One of the most touching designs I had the honour of creating was for a client of mine this past summer.
Over the course of discussing the wedding flowers and the colours, she requested a specific flower to be used only during the ceremony whose colour and nature was not consistent with the other elements that had already been decided.
When I asked about it, she answered that her mother had passed away a few years ago and that it was her favourite flower.
I thought the tribute was so lovely and fitting and when it was all said and done, she and her groom were married under an elegant fabric draped canopy accented with stunning clusters of these beautiful flowers.
Wedding flowers are such a wonderful opportunity not only to create memories for the future, but also to look back and include in simple and thoughtful ways people and things of the past that are significant to you.