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Lavender Wedding Ideas--

Here's the last in my series on using lavender at a wedding. If you've used lavender at a wedding, please share with our readers by leaving a comment below.

If your wedding isn't during the fresh lavender harvest, don't despair! Fresh lavender bundles can hang to dry and bring a hint of summer to a winter wedding.

We're watching the stems quickly turn to deep purple. Ahhh the excitement and the fragrance is already in the air!

Susan L. Harrington, CEO
(Chief Education Officer)
Labyrinth Hill Lavender

Lavender Wedding Rice

Use fragrant, environmentally friendly dried lavender as lavender wedding rice.

• Wedding venues no longer allow rice because it’s difficult to clean up and it attracts rodents.
• Not only does birdseed also attract unwanted guests, it sprouts unwanted plants.
• As for bubbles, they create a slippery mess that stains fine fabrics.
• Lavender used as wedding toss vacuums up easily providing an instant air freshener.

Fresh Lavender at the Bridal Party Table

Use the bridal bouquet as well as the attendants' bouquets as the centerpiece for the bridal party table!

On Monday I'll have the last in this series of using lavender at a wedding!

Susan L. Harrington, CEO
(Chief Education Officer)
Labyrinth Hill Lavender

Attendant Fresh Lavender Bouquets

• Gather bundles of fresh lavender, approximately 200 stems each. Shape the bundle to form a dome of lavender
  
  
• Hold the bundle firmly, but gently and twist the stems in a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction.
  
  
• Take one yard of wide ribbon and wrap the bundle twice, tightly, just above the hand where you're holding the bouquet. You will start with about 3/4 of the ribbon trailing.
  
  
• Lay the bundle down and tie a square knot. Finish by wrapping the short and long ends of the ribbon in the same direction around the knot.
  
  
• Fold under the end and secure in place with 3-4 pearl-headed pins.
  
  
• Trim the ends of the stems, about 4 inches below the ribbon so the bundles will stand on their own.

Fresh lavender bundles will fare quite well for the duration of the wedding day without needing water!

 Fresh Lavender in a Casual Wedding Bouquet

Here I am again with more ideas for using lavender at a wedding! Yesterday's post included three simple ideas. Today I'm sharing more fragrant ideas for using lavender--the ancient herb of love and devotion--at a wedding.

Enjoy...and share your ideas for using lavender at a wedding.

Fresh Lavender Bouquet

• Include fresh or dried lavender in the bridal party bouquets. Stems of deep purple set off dreamy white or pink roses.
  
  
• Dried or fresh lavender stems in small vases at the reception carry on this fragrant theme.
  
  

Dried Lavender Buds

• When flower girls toss dried lavender along the aisle, wedding day jitters disappear! As the bridesmaids step on the aromatic buds, a gentle, calming fragrance greets the bride.

Use Fresh Lavender at a Wedding

It's wedding season and what better time to use fragrant lavender the ancient herb of love and devotion!? Fresh lavender is generally available in June and July depending where your farm is located.

Tomorrow we'll have some more lavender wedding ideas!

Here are a few simple ideas for using lavender at a wedding:

• Tie bundles of dried or fresh lavender with bows for the end of each seating row at the ceremony.
  
  
• Use a ribbon-trimmed bundle of fresh lavender as the bridal bouquet toss.
  
  
• A new wedding tradition is to present the toss bouquet to a guest of honor rather than have the "bouquet battle." Use dried lavender stems along with other dried herbs and flowers for an everlasting memory!