New York — A wedding is one of the most important events of a person’s life. Unfortunately, the planning can be one of the most confusing. From venues to food to music to dresses, the decisions for the “perfect day” are endless.
And then comes the flowers, the major focal point of the occasion. However, picking wedding day flowers can be a source of gratification, not stress, as long as you know what to look for.
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Lovers have shared their feelings for each other through the meaning of flowers for centuries. Flowers as symbols have been noted in Egyptian inscriptions and in ancient Chinese writings.
In the 1600s, Turkish lovers communicated secretly via “talking bouquets” called tussie-mussies. The trend of flowers as a declaration of love found its way to Europe, and in 1819, Madame Charlotte de la Tour wrote what became a popular flower dictionary called Le Language des Fleurs to help decipher messages.
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Lucille Styles opened Charleston Florist Feb. 3, 1933, with $300 and one employee. Her husband, Homer Styles, owned Palmetto Floral Nursery and provided all the flowers and plants for the shop.
With the business in its fourth generation of family ownership, Styles’ great-granddaughter Kelly Hunt is gearing up for one of her busiest times of the year.
Hunt recalls visiting her great-grandmother at the King Street floral boutique when she was a little girl, eventually becoming an employee while in high school and college, when her grandmother owned the shop. During that time, Hunt said, Charleston Florist was hired to do the floral arrangements for the 1981 wedding of Luke Spencer and Laura Webber on the soap opera “General Hospital.”
http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/feb/04/king_st_florist_gears_up_its_th_annivers29499/
Now that’s some experience.
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