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Using Your Birth Month Flower
By Sharon Naylor | Published 08/31/2006 | Floral | Unrated

Sharon Naylor
Sharon Naylor is the author of over 30 wedding books, including 1000 Best Secrets For Your Perfect Wedding, 1000 Best Wedding Bargains, Your Special Wedding Vows, Your Special Wedding Toasts, The Mother of the Bride Book, Mother of the Groom, The Groom's Guide, The Essential Guide to Wedding Etiquette, The Complete Outdoor Wedding Planner, and more. She has appeared as a wedding expert on Nightline, Lifetime, Inside Edition, ABC News, Fox 5 News, and on hundreds of radio stations nationally and internationally. Read more about Sharon Naylor here. Sharon is also happy to asnwer your wedding-related questions in her forum.

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Using Your Birth Month Flower
For years, brides and grooms have used their favorite flowers in the bouquet, the centerpieces, other décor, and the boutonnieres. As weddings become more personalized, they brought in their mothers’ favorite flowers, their grandmothers’ favorite flowers, even the flowers that were a part of their love story – such as pink roses to commemorate the first bouquet the groom ever bought the bride, or Calla lilies because they were a part of the wonderfully romantic proposal scene planned by the groom. These flowers told a story, both as reminder for the bride and groom of each step of their romance, and as a telling touch for guests to appreciate the details of their relationship.

Now, there’s another way to personalize your wedding – using your birth month flowers. The bride born in June would derive extra meaning from her tightly clustered bouquet of white roses, and the groom born in February might have a tiny violet on his lapel to coordinate with the bridesmaids’ lavender gowns. Your two birth flowers may work together wonderfully as a pair – white roses with lily of the valley, for instance – or they may work as individual touches. We’ll list some suggestions in a moment, but first…we wanted you to know about the biggest new trend in birthmonth flowers for the wedding day: giving the wedding itself its own birth month flower. The month of your wedding is the birth of your new relationship, the start of a new life together, and so it’s only fitting that your wedding own its personalized bloom to be worked into your wedding design and celebrated in the future on your anniversaries.

Here is the chart of birth months and their corresponding flowers:

January Carnation
February Violet
March Daffodil
April Daisy
May Lily of the Valley
June Rose
July Larkspur
August Gladiolus
September Aster
October Calendula
November Chrysanthemum
December Poinsettia

Now here are some ways that you can bring your birth month flowers into your wedding style:

• Use your birthmonth flower in your bouquet, using only your month flowers at the start of your ceremony, then adding your groom’s flowers into your bouquet after the ceremony – or switching to a second bouquet that includes both of your blooms.

• Use both of your birthmonth flowers in your bouquet

• Have your birthmonth flower sewn onto your gown, as more designers are doing…with fresh roses sewn onto the bottom of a plunging backline

• Use your birthmonth flowers, as well as the birthmonth flower for your wedding, in your centerpieces and place on each table a note signifying the meaning to your guests.

• Place petals or blooms of your flower on the tablecloth around the centerpiece, around votives, scattered on guest book and gift tables, and more

• Give your mothers bouquets including your birthmonth flower

• Use your birthmonth flower, combined with hers, in her corsage, wristlet or bouquet

• Use your children’s birthmonth flowers in your bouquet, as well as theirs

• Use an image of your birthmonth flowers on your invitations, wedding programs, place cards, save the date cards, and other printed items

• Use your birth month flowers to decorate your wedding cake and other desserts

• Use your birthmonth flowers as fresh accents to serving trays or display trays on a buffet table

• Give your birthmonth flowers out as shower favors, and also as wedding favors when single stems are individually wrapped

• Use the scent of your birthflower for your wedding day perfume, such as a rose scent or lily of the valley

• Use the flower of your wedding month to decorate your ceremony site

• Use the flower of your wedding month as pew bow décor, and as ceremony seat attachments

• Again, use the scent of your birth flower in the candles you choose for your tables

• Choose candles in your birth flower’s scent to give out as favors

• Leave fresh flowers in your chosen months in your guests’ hotel rooms, with a note as to their meanings.

• Give your bridesmaids single flowers in their birthmonths on the morning of the wedding

• Personalize your bridesmaids’ bouquets by using their birth month flowers in their bouquets

• Create personal-wear floral jewelry for the mothers, grandmothers, godmothers, children, bridesmaids and yourself by having your floral designer create a delicate flower bracelet or choker made from your flower (not recommended for poinsettias).

• Use your birth month flower as extra décor in your outdoor wedding setting, such as planting groupings of daisies throughout the yard.

• The men can choose their own style of boutonniere flower, including the option of their birthmonth flower (guys sometimes want to go traditional, and an aster on a lapel may be a bit too much for some men).

• For your tossing bouquet, create it from a combination of your birth month flowers, as well as your wedding birth month flowers.

• Use your birth month flowers to decorate the sign on your getaway car.

• Send your parents bouquets on the morning after the wedding, using your birth month flowers, or perhaps yours paired with theirs.

• Use your birth month flowers as the décor for your morning-after breakfast

• Give guests a single flower just before they depart from your wedding weekend

• Share the story of your birth month flowers, or your wedding birth month flowers, in your wedding program. Most florists can give you the history of the flower, such as the revelation that violets were the original Valentine’s Day flower of choice before roses took over.

• Look up ‘The Language of Flowers’ on the Internet to find out the symbolic meanings of your flowers