Christmas
Flowers
Christmas
flowers
with their lively colors and a variety of arrangements
enhance
any Christmas
gathering.
Whether the flowers
are received through delivery by mail or brought by friends
and family for
even a Christmas
Wedding, flowers
such as roses, tulips, daffodils,
and baby’s breath heighten this
festive time.
A wedding
at Christmas
time is doubly auspicious and increases the range
of
flower arrangement
possibilities during gift giving stage of the Christmas
event. The flower arrangements
not only deliver a festive air to the season,
but also to deliver an arrangement
of flowers
that celebrates a wedding.
There are the traditional and striking poinsettia plants of red and green,
and
then there are wedding
flowers
such as: dahlias, snowberries and winter
wedding
flowers
like red roses, white roses, and cream roses.
Christmas
Flowers in History
Rituals and celebrations associated with winter started a long time before
Christmas
celebrations ever started. Over
time, these pagan celebrations
became embraced by
the church as a way to offer a welcome to new Christians
to help observe
the growing
new faith.
The fact is, winter with it’s long nights and gloomy short days made
ancients
wary, wondering if the sun and
its warmth and green plants and flowers
would ever return.
In most cultures, people developed rituals both to ward off the ‘winter
blues’ as well
as to hasten the return of spring and summer.
Flowers,
flowers
arrangements, and fruit and nuts became central to
these rituals. Winter flowers
were available at some latitudes around the world,
so they became part of
the ritual to remind participants that while the landscape
was lifeless, renewal of life through rituals and the presence of flowers,
was assured.
Christmas
Flowers and
Faith
When
Christians began celebrating Christmas
the church integrated these
winter rituals of life and renewal by
associating it with the resurrection, which
was a special kind of rebirth of life.
Unique flower arrangements were developed to celebrate this double message of
life’s promise of renewal through the use of flowers
and plants in the middle of winter,
and the faith which held the promise of Christ’s resurrection.
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The Christmas
tree thus became a good symbol of life in the middle of a lifeless
landscape since it was one of the few plants that was green and alive
during the
winter Christmas
season.
If the evergreen trees could live in the lifeless winter days, so too
would Christ live, and all who believed it would surely live forever as well
. This was the message of Christmas and with it came Christmas
flowers and the
hope it brought to the celebrants during
the long dark days of Christmas in the winter.
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