The Perfect Flowers For Mother’s Day
Carnations are The Official Flowers for Mother’s Day
Why celebrate Mother’s Day?
We have been celebrating Mother’s since the Roman Empire. The Romans hosted festivals in honor of the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele. It was during the 1800s, in Europe, we saw what started to resemble a Modern Mother’s Day celebration. The UK adopted a celebration called “Mothering Sunday,” which took place on the fourth day of Lent. The idea was to encourage people to travel to their “mother church” aka the first church they ever attended in their hometown. Over the years this morphed into what we have now, a day in celebration of Moms. In modern tradition, Mother’s Day is a day children give their moms flowers and other small gifts in acknowledgment for all they have done for them.
Why are Carnations the Official Flower of Mother’s Day?
Anna Jarvis from Philadelphia, PA, in 1907, was said to have delivered 500 white carnations to the Church where her mother taught Sunday School. This was to honor her memory, as they had kept a garden full of white carnations together. She requested that the church hand out the carnations at their Mother’s Day service. Every year after, the church would then hand out the carnations. It wasn’t until the mid-1940s that the carnation was named the official flower for Mother’s Day!
This Mother’s Day, show your mom or grandma just how much you love and appreciate them with a fresh bouquet of flowers!
Use Code ‘MOM23’ to get 10% off at checkout when you preorder with us this Mother’s Day. We at Creations by Coppola know just how important it is to honor the women in our lives. Don’t wait until the last minute to show Mom how much you adore them.
As Anna Jarvis was famous to have said about white carnations: “typify some of the virtues of motherhood: Whiteness stands for purity; its lasting qualities, faithfulness; its fragrance, love; its wide field of growth, charity; its form, beauty…”
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