Asian Wedding Flowers

If you want to have your wedding celebrated in Asian style for many of your personal reasons, you can go for several ideas that relate to the Asian tradition. You can choose the wedding dress to resemble to a kimono, you can have your hair dressing styled according to Asian fashion and the make up to be a perfect replica of a geisha’s; there are many styles and tones that can breath the Asian air inside the atmosphere of your wedding celebration. When it comes to the decorations, the elements could be diverse; either they belong to decorative Asian items to reflect different symbolic meanings or the choice of Asian wedding flowers may work as well.

For selecting these flowers, for instance, you have to run some researches regarding the types of blooms and the symbols they carry inside their appearance. Since wedding celebrations are events to carry on the tradition which in its turn is loaded with symbols and significance, you might as well decide to choose the floral elements following the meanings lying inside the Asian flowers. In this respect you should learn that Asian flowers are the delicate ones, the blooms of sacred lotus, of lily of the Nile (which is known also as agapathus americanus), mangrove, poppy, water lily, cherry blossom, orchid, all of them coming with their own story to tell and their own symbol.

And as such you should find out that the cherry blossom is highly esteemed in both Japan and China, having different symbols for each of these countries. For instance, in Japan there were many excursions taken in order to watch the plantation of the cherry trees while in blossom with the purpose to meditate upon the evanescent nature of life; this meditation has something to do with the Buddhist concept over the nature of life. The symbols that accompany the Japanese cult for cherry blossom are related to spring, simplicity and innocence. This is the reason why Japanese brides use these blooms as their Asian wedding flowers in the unfolding of the wedding event, and also on their japanese wedding gowns.



Compared to the Japanese symbols, the Chinese symbols of the cherry blossom show features totally opposed to the Japanese ones; in China cherry blossom is most of the times associated with women’s beauty and her feminine sensuality. The symbol of lotus is another meaning used in the celebration of Asian weddings, be it the bloom to decorate the tables or the ones to be used in a hair dressing style. The Buddhist concept shows lotus as the flower to carry the purity of body and mind lifting above the physical desires and attachments.



According to the variety of colors, lotus is given several meanings; as such we meet the pink lotus to stand for Buddha representation seen also as a supreme blossom, the red lotus stands for the purity of heart, compassion and love; the white lotus goes for spiritual perfection and total purity of the mental. Next to these colors we meet also blue to change the symbol of a lotus into the one of wisdom, victory gained over the senses and knowledge.



Orchids and poppies are also blooms to be seen in Western countries wedding decorations, therefore their symbols should be more than familiar to the future brides in search of the symbols contained in the vivid and colored elements of a wedding celebration: the wedding fresh flowers.