We'll Be Apples

On thursday I got all enthusiastic for the new 'fruity' wedding trend. It's really captivated my imagination. Why? Because it's equal parts pure sophistication and equal parts folklore / mythology. Has any other trend balanced between these two worlds so effectively? In a single apple you have everything for the symbolism is rich and ingrained throughout many cultures and customs. Apples symbolise: love, youth, beauty, abundance, wisdom and joy and the flipside symbolistic traits are treachery, deceitfulness, lust and death. Oh-er! Talk about the makings of a great love story!

And let's not forget that apples are often used to symbolise fertility. I have just come in from a wedding where apples were everywhere. The bride in question has been trying for a baby and has been through two rounds of IVF so she wanted her own wedding scheme to invoke, in her own words, 'luscious fertility'. Who could argue? Is there anything more sensuous than platters of ripe fruit and blossoming foliage? I think not (and fingers crossed for the newly married Mrs.).

---------------------------------Apples Symbolise----------------------------------

Love

Youth

Abundance

Beauty

Wisdom

Joy

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We know that apples, indeed golden apples, were used by the Greek Gods of mythology for various schemes and purposes, but closer to home lets not forget our own Arthurian Legends including that of Avalon (translated to mean apple island) and that apples and the apple tree were revered by the Celts for representing womanhood, motherhood, romance and fertility. 

Tomorrow I'll be exploring easy ways to get in with apples at your wedding.