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Greenery Meanings: What Your Floral Fillers Are Saying About Your Wedding

You may know that red roses symbolize love, but do you know what your filler flowers and greenery are saying about you? Plants have had symbolic meanings for thousands of years, such as bamboo's meaning of "long life" in China and the old European meaning of "purity" for lilies. In Victorian times, lovers could communicate their feelings by offering a nosegay composed of specific flowers in the same way an offered poem would be composed of specific words. With today's globalization of society, plant meanings assigned by different cultures collide and there may be several ways to interpret each plant, meaning that you can work with a florist, such as Holmes McDuffy Florist Inc, to choose whichever nuance best suits the occasion. Here are seven popular filler plants and the symbolic meanings they can bring to your wedding arrangements.

  1. Baby's Breath: The quintessentially popular filler, this flower is ideal for weddings because it symbolizes unblemished perfection, innocence, and a pure heart.
  2. Ferns: In general, ferns are taken to mean magic and fascination. Specific types of ferns may also have their own meanings. Maidenhair ferns, for example, symbolize secret love.
  3. Dusty Miller, which indeed has a delicate appearance with its finely cut, frond-like leaves, carries the meanings of happiness and delicacy.
  4. Sweet Peas can mean bliss or pleasure. They also symbolize joyous departures, and can communicate gratitude for a good time (for example, saying that you had a great time celebrating your wedding with your family and friends before leaving on your honeymoon).
  5. Daisies: Innocence, purity, loyalty, and new beginnings are among the auspicious meanings given to the daisy flower. Though simple in form, the daisy has a pure and hopeful elegance that has made it one of the most popular fillers in America today.
  6. Ivy: An evergreen that can always be counted on, ivy holds the symbolic meanings of faithfulness, affection, and friendliness.
  7. Queen Anne's Lace is a relative to domesticated carrots (sometimes called "Wild Carrot" because of this similarity) and has two meanings: delicacy and protection. 

Some of these flowers gained their meanings from their appearances; for instance, you may notice that most white flowers symbolize purity. Other meanings may have been arbitrarily assigned, and some came into being because of how the flowers were being used. But whether it was their use that garnered the symbolism or their auspicious symbolism that made them so popular at weddings, these seven floral fillers can all communicate appropriately wedding-themed traits. If you're taking the symbolism seriously, remember to steer clear of plants with negative connotations. These include flowers such as foxgloves (insincere), marigolds (grief), and rhododendrons (danger). 


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