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This listing is for 1 Princess Kate Bridal Bouquet, created with silk lily of the valley, silk hyacinth, artificial ivy and silk stephanotis.



Your Princess Kate Wedding Bouquet is 10" wide x 12" inches in length.



The bouquet carried by Princess Kate is a shield-shaped wired bouquet of myrtle, lily-of-the-valley, sweet William and hyacinth. The bouquet was designed by Shane Connolly and draws on the traditions of flowers of significance for the Royal Family, the Middleton family and on the Language of Flowers.



The flowers’ meanings in the bouquet are:



Lily-of-the-valley – Return of happiness



Sweet William – Gallantry



Hyacinth – Constancy of love



Ivy: Fidelity; marriage; wedded love; friendship; affection



Myrtle: the emblem of marriage; love.



The bouquet contains stems from a myrtle planted at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, by Queen Victoria in 1845, and a sprig from a plant grown from the myrtle used in The Queen’s wedding bouquet of 1947.



The tradition of carrying myrtle begun after Queen Victoria was given a nosegay containing myrtle by Prince Albert’s grandmother during a visit to Gotha in Germany. In the same year, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert bought Osborne House as a family retreat, and a sprig from the posy was planted against the terrace walls, where it continues to thrive today.



The myrtle was first carried by Queen Victoria eldest daughter, Princess Victoria, when she married in 1858, and was used to signify the traditional innocence of a bride.

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