A Wedding Bouquet Made from Diamonds

If and when anyone has an auspicious HK$19.999 million in change, one could declare his affection for the lucky bride with an unforgettable bouquet sparkling with 39,999 diamonds.
Leading Hong Kong jeweler Hang Fung Gold Technology, which has built up a reputation for innovative jewelry pieces, is presenting the Amore diamond wedding bouquet, which it says symbolizes love fulfilled, while the diamond represents enduring love.

Hang Fung’s retail brand 3D-GOLD Jewellery collaborated with an Italian design team to create the exquisite Amore diamond wedding bouquet. Singer Kelly Chen Wai-lam is brand spokeswoman.

This magnificent bouquet has 99 dazzling flowers representing nine varieties (peony, rose, Chinese herbaceous peony, calla lily, large and small hydrangea, gypsophila elegans, caryophyllales and daisy) and symbolize eternal love in Chinese culture.

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Online Flowers That Don’t Measure Up

Like any bride, Durham’s Emma Lumley wanted her wedding day to be perfect and unique.

She ordered custom cake toppers and a really cool cake. Her father picked out her wedding gown and bought it before she saw it.

“I thought it was absolutely stunning,” she recalled.

She thought she had made a smart choice with her flowers, too. To cut costs, she ordered them online. She paid nearly $470 for calla lilies, orchids, rose petals filler and a “hydration kit.”

“I’d say we saved $500,” she thought – until her order arrived, late and wilted…

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Choosing Your Wedding Flowers

Flowers are a wonderful way to add a decorative touch to your wedding as well as giving the occasion individuality and symbolism in the varieties you choose.

The guests at my own wedding had no idea that the seemingly cool, calm and collected bride standing at the altar had just an hour before the ceremony been frantically cobbling together a bouquet from the mass of peonies that were adorning the tables

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Fall Is The New Spring For Some

Caitlyn Ferrell Mueller has always loved autumn in West Virginia, so when she began to plan one of her life’s most important events, she thought autumn was the perfect time.

Her Oct. 6 wedding at Sacred Heart Co-Cathedral to Tim Mueller turned out to be an unseasonably warm day — it hit 93 degrees — but the day still had a fall feel to it, with leaves just starting to change.

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