Today, the media highly publicizes Hollywood weddings of the rich and famous; every little detail from the wedding dress to wedding guests is scrutinized and photographed. The flowers carried in celebrity wedding bouquets can also influence the fashion for today's bride; some of these wedding flowers have been used for several celebrity weddings.
Royal Wedding Bouquets
In 1840, Queen Victoria of England married Prince Albert of Germany; it is said that Queen Victoria wore Orange Blossoms in her hair and carried a simple wedding bouquet of Snowdrop flowers. Snowdrops were reputed to be Prince Albert's favorite flowers; it is also thought that sprigs of myrtle were intertwined in the bridal bouquet, a popular tradition of Victorian England. The Victorians also paid great attention to flower meanings.
In 1981, Lady Diana Spencer married HRH The Prince of Wales in a fairytale wedding; the late Princess of Wales' wedding bouquet was a lavish, cascading shower bouquet of yellow roses, gardenias, orchids, stephanotis, freesia and lily-of-the-valley. Sprigs of myrtle and Veronica flowers were cut from Queen Victoria's gardens at Osborne House and were also included in the wedding bouquet.
Early Hollywood Movie Star Wedding Flowers
Early Hollywood stars included Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn; Marilyn Monroe married her second husband, baseball star Joe Di Maggio, in 1954 at San Fransisco City Hall and despite her fame, carried a simple wedding bouquet of three white orchid flowers. Audrey Hepburn's first marriage was to the actor Mel Ferrer in 1954 where she chose a bridal bouquet of fragrant white Roses; in her second marriage to Andrea Dotti in 1969, Audrey Hepburn then chose simple wedding flowers of freesia and lily-of-the-valley.
Modern Hollywood Movie Star Bridal Bouquets
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thorton at the The Little Church of The West Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Angelina Jolie's $189 wedding package included a simple bridal bouquet of white roses and carnations.
American TV Star Wedding Bouquets
In 2000, Friends TV star Jennifer Aniston married Hollywood actor Brad Pitt. Jennifer Aniston used flowers liberally in her celebrity wedding ceremony; her wedding bouquet consisted of pink Dutch Vendela roses and green hydrangea. Flower girls threw petals down the aisle, and it is reported that 50,000 flowers were used on the wedding day.
Also in 2000, TV star Debra Messing (Will and Grace and The Starter Wife) married screenwriter Daniel Zelman; in an outdoor ceremony on a private Santa Barbara estate, Debra Messing chose to carry long-stemmed calla lilies as her wedding flowers. It was said that she chose them for their visual appeal.
In 2004, Mariska Hargitay of Law and Order: SVU TV fame, married actor Peter Hermann in a Californian wedding ceremony. The daughter of the late Hollywood actress Jayne Mansfield, Hargitay honored her mother with a pale pink wedding attire, including a wedding bouquet of pale roses, gardenia and lily-of-the-valley and a hair style woven with roses and gardenias.
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