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Your Lavender Wedding Guide This is a quick guide exemplifying some ideas on how to implement the beauty, elegance, fragrance, hue and flavour of natural organic lavender to your (big or small, casual or formal, summer or winter, contemporary or traditional, unicultural or multicultural, morning or evening, indoor or outdoor) wedding celebration!
If anything, this little juicy morsel of historical gossip gives us a quick timeframe of just how long lavender has been around and its long relationship with romance and love. In the 16th century, a romantic “language of flowers” was brought to the West from the Ottoman Empire. The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, became a Victorian-era means of communication in which various flowers and floral arrangements were used to send coded messages, allowing individuals to express feelings which otherwise could not be spoken.
Young maidens would sip a brew of lavender on St. Luke’s day to find out the identity of their true love, while Alpine girls tucked lavender under their lovers’ pillows, hoping to turn their thoughts to romance, and once married, newly-weds would put bunches of dried lavender under their mattresses to ensure marital passion. Today, lavender remains a timeless symbol of romance and elegance. Due to its versatility it can be implemented in many different ways for wedding celebrations – we simply cannot imagine a wedding without lavender!
If you have fantasized about an outdoor wedding in a romantic setting which includes sweeping views and golden sunsets, a lavender farm in full bloom might just do the trick. Many lavender farms around the world permit weddings to take place amidst the blooming blue fields. For example, in an article entitled Ten Dazzling Destinations in Canada to Say “I Do”, the Okanagan Lavender Herb Farm made the top 10! Some other farms to consider are: Hood River, Oregon; Maui, Hawaii; Damali Lavender Farm, Vancouver Island; or Purple Haze, Washington. If you are not keen on celebrating in the great outdoors, but would still like to incorporate the romance of lavender into your wedding day, perhaps one option would be to have the photos done in a field of lavender. Find out if there is a lavender farm near you and give them a call. Lavender is the ancient herb of love and devotion. It gives off a wonderful calming scent. Fresh lavender flowers are available only in season (June – September for North America) however dried lavender bunches look just as pretty especially when blended in with fresh flowers.
Ingredients: ½ cup of sugar Bring sugar and ½ cup of water to boil in a saucepan, stirring to dissolve sugar. Stir in culinary lavender. Remove from heat. Let cool completely. Strain out lavender. Refrigerate syrup until ready to serve (up to 1 month). At time of serving pour 1½ teaspoons of syrup into each flute and fill up with Champagne – garnish each with some lavender buds.
Lavender sachets can serve many purposes. They work well as seating cards, as little gifts for guests, as a decorative element, or as a token of appreciation for your bridesmaids. They weigh almost nothing and can be easily transported by you and by the receiver!
Lavender natural bath & body products as well as relaxing lavender eye pillows and neck wraps release the renowned lavender essential oils known to sooth and realax frazzled nerves.
Say adieu to Wedding Jitters! Natural lavender spa products make a lovely gift for the wedding party. Your guests will be pleasantly surprised that such an elegant gift can be so practical.
"Something Blue" - To Wear and To Hold
It is relatively inexpensive – as a matter of fact it is the official gemstone of Ontario, Canada due to its plentiful occurrence along Lake Superior.
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Perhaps the best place to begin discussing this subject is by mentioning a common historical anecdote often noted in literature about lavender. It refers to the fact that Cleopatra (69 BC - 30 BC), Queen of Egypt was one of the greatest devotees to fragrance and used rose and lavender in most of her aromatic mixtures to seduce both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.
In the language of flowers lavender stands for Love, Devotion and Loyalty. This symbolism quickly re-introduced lavender into the world of romance and solidified a close connection to Cupid.
Lavender farms - some of which offer B&B accommodations and/or catering services, are often located in the most spectacular geographical locations. 
These lavender-themed table lanterns and greeting cards add a touch of whimsy – and guests can take them and use them at home!
When a bride wears something blue, she is tapping into a tradition that stretches back to the days of the biblical Hebrews, who believed the color symbolized loyalty and spiritual constancy. Lavender makes it easy to achieve creative ideas for how to wear and to hold the traditional "something blue" in your wedding.
Simple elegance and beauty. 
This crystalline quartz in shades of purple, lilac or mauve is called amethyst. Surprisingly this gemstone shares not only the lavender hues, but also its properties. Amethyst is said to be used as a dream stone and to help insomnia. Put an amethyst under your pillow to bring about pleasant dreams, or rub it across your forehead to offer relief from a headache.