Butterflies and Wedding – Symbolization
Butterflies are known to represent the human soul. Beautiful and free, these symbols are often the main theme of American Weddings. Like humans, butterflies begin in cocoons and their beauty deepens as they release and emerge. This symbolization is often related to the love of the newlyweds. Spreading butterflies around your ceremony and reception will remind guests of the beauty and love that they are there to witness!
Custom Colorizing Weddings
Displaying certain colors during your bridal ceremony not only share your personal color preference but also set different mood tones. Selecting various hues to evoke emotions from your guests will create a magical night to remember.
Lavender: Lavender brings out refinement. One of the most delicate colors to choose, Lavender signifies grace and elegance. Perfectly suited for bridesmaid dresses and table cloths.
Blue: Calming and peaceful. Your guests will feel relaxed and enjoy the evening. Set the mood with Weddingstar’s Water Activated Diamond Lights.
Pinks: Choose a wide variety of pink from pastel to raspberry. Lift the spirits of your guests with pink rose petals scattered over the tables
Green: Symbolizing life and nature. This soothing color will create the ambiance of growth and new beginnings. Be sure to add lots of greenery to your ceremony!
Yellow: Historically representing hope and happiness, this hue is sure to remind guests of the obstacles that you have overcome.
White: Typically the most traditional color, white represents purity and innocence. Create a mood of pure elegance with elegant white centerpieces. Add any other color to your ceremony to custom colorize and enhance moods
Designing your cake to fit your cake topper…
A great way to begin your cake selection is to choose the cake topper first. The cake topper can help determine what the cake will look like and what the proportions will be. A good example of a cake topper influencing the cake is the Reaching Bride/Helpful Groom cake topper and the Climbing Groom/Victorious Bride cake topper. For instance, the height of the top cake layer should be tall enough to accommodate the Reaching Bride or the Climbing Groom. The layer of cake underneath the top layer should be wide enough for the Reaching Bride’s dress to fit comfortably. This requires coordination between both sizes of cake layers, but is easy to do if you purchase the cake topper first. For any cake, be prepared to choose a size for each layer approximately ranging from 4 inches to 24 inches. Bakeries usually do not carry every size of cake pan in every orientation such as square, round, or octagon. Many bakeries skip every other size to save on the cost of cake pans. This can be advantageous to you since the size range that bakers choose are usually proportionate.
Where did the Christmas Tree originate?
Christmas Tree at Rockefeller Center, NY
Germany is credited with starting the Christmas tree tradition in the 16th century when devout Christians brought decorated trees into their homes. Some built Christmas pyramids of wood and decorated them with evergreens and candles. The Christmas tree custom gradually became popular in other parts of Europe. In England Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria made Christmas trees fashionable by decorating the first English Christmas tree at Windsor castle with candles and a variety of sweets, fruits and gingerbread in 1841. Of course, soon other wealthy English families followed suit, using all kinds of extravagant items as decorations. Charles Dickens described such a tree as being covered with dolls, miniature furniture, tiny musical instruments, costume jewelry, toy guns and swords, fruit and candy, in the 1850s.
Most of the 19th century Americans found Christmas trees an oddity. The first record of one being on display was in the 1830s by the German settlers of Pennsylvania. They put one on show to raise money for a local church. In 1851 a tree was set up outside of a church. The people of the parish thought it such an outrage and a return to paganism and asked the minister to take it down. By the 1890s Christmas ornaments were arriving from Germany and Christmas tree popularity was on the rise around the U.S. It was noted that Europeans used small trees about four feet in height, while Americans liked their Christmas to reach from floor to ceiling.
The early 20th century saw Americans decorating their trees mainly with homemade ornaments, while the German-American sect continued to use apples, nuts, and marzipan cookies. Popcorn joined in after being dyed bright colors and interlaced with berries and nuts.
Electricity helped introduce Christmas lights making it possible for Christmas trees to glow for days on end. With this, Christmas trees began to appear in town squares across the country. All important buildings, private and public, signaled the beginning of the Christmas holiday with the tree ceremony.
Early Christmas trees had, in place of angels, figures of fairies – the good spirits, though horns and bells were once used to frighten off evil spirits.
In Poland, Christmas trees used to be decked with angels, peacocks and other birds as well as many, many stars. In Sweden, trees are decorated with brightly painted wooden ornaments and straw figures of animals and children. In Denmark, tiny Danish flags along with mobiles of bells stars, snowflakes and hearts are hung on Christmas trees. Japanese Christians prefer tiny fans and paper lanterns. Lithuanians cover their trees with straw bird cages, stars, and geometric shapes. The straw sends a wish for good crops in the coming year. Czechoslovakian trees display ornaments made from painted egg shells.
