Drying Flower With Silica Gel

Alright if you're still young and naive or a born optimist or if you have reached middle years still with some vestiges of romantic illusion in tact or your just simply a hopeful, then I guess at this point your minds are busily conjuring visions of candle light dinners for two, gifts from who's wrappings beautifully scented fresh rose petals fall, as the paper is eagerly torn from its gift box, or even romantic trails of electric red rose petals that lead to a candle lit bed chamber and a luxurious four poster bed with many cushions on which even more petals have been cast. As these are things anyone with even a little romance still left in their soul's pictures in their head at the mention of the word rose petal. Who doesn't think of the extremely beautiful, sentimental and traditional practice of the bridal throw, мейд up of either fresh or silk petals, cast as if romance itself is being strewn at the feet of the bridal pair as they leave the church to begin their life together as man and wife.

Obviously romance is not on the minds of all involved particularly some of Holland's commercial flower growers who seek to completely destroy all the romance of rose petals by turning them into novelty objects.

Rose petals that glow in the dark? Would you believe? Would you want them for your wedding? And where is the romance when they force the virginal white rose to drink dye from numerous colored dye bowls creating a single rose with rainbow petals looking rather like at least in my opinion that it has been part of some freak accident at a paint factory?

All these guys are thinking about is money and if the American bride can be suckered in to buying such garish blossoms in the mistaken belief that she is breaking new ground in the latest bridal trend. Thankfully these weird and wonderful experiments within the world of roses did not catch on here in North America to the same extent they did in Japan and China hopefully brides here were too discerning, but then again perhaps not as what does appear to have caught on is having printed rose petals. The latest trend is that all the petals that will form the bridal throw or serve as table decorations at the wedding reception will be printed with the happy couples names or in some cases even mini portraits of the happy pair.

OK I realize all brides want to create at least a little stir at their wedding having it remembered for trail blazing some new bridal trend but ladies please let your innate sense of good taste be your guides printed petals are tacky in the extreme, to allow rose petals one of a weddings greatest romantic symbols to be treated as no more than a mini billboard, is by its self a major crime, and then if that wasn't enough but to add insult to injury by having the newly married couple tread on each others smiling faces on these printed petals as they leave the church what kind of good luck omen of marital bliss and harmony does this provide none what so ever in my opinion.

Ladies please if you're going to include rose petals in your wedding festivities by choosing the latest weird and wonderful floral creation your just lining the pockets of the unromantic guys whose unfortunate minds come up with the newest tasteless floral fad you're only encouraging them to produce something weirder and wackier to lay in wait for next years crop of unsuspecting brides. Stand up for good taste and the romance of rose petals in their natural form.

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Or if you are getting married and require information on the more traditional wedding uses of Rose Petals [aboutrosepetals.blogspot/2009/07/rose-petals-weddings.html] either, Freeze Dried Petals, Silk Rose Petals, or Taking Rose Petals Beyond Your Wedding Day