Have you given much thought to the strength of sense-memory? How a particular smell can immediately bring to mind people, places or events in your life?
Though I demanded very little in the planning of my wedding, I just had to have gardenias in my bridal bouquet. Out of season and costly, my florist allowed three. To the sentimentalist in me, that delicately scrumptious flower paid homage to my childhood and celebrated my Southern roots.
But mostly it honored my grandmother.
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Continue reading at where you'll see how in the world I mashed up …and not only my wedding bouquet but what I looked like as a blushing bride*.
* For some reason I wanted to be tan on my wedding day, despite it being the middle of November and NOT going anywhere tropical for our honeymoon. I stuck out like a bronzed sore thumb among my wedding party, and ever-after that decision left me shaking my head at my young, irrational self.
I’ll head over there and read. But Smellemories are the most poignant.
I have little in the way of smell memories of my grandmother. But many with my mom. Even Bleach. She used it to clean everything (especially the things associated with the cow and milking) so when she would put her hand on my forehead or cheek for some reason, there would always be the faint smell of bleach on them.
Hi Robin,
Gardenias were a lovely wedding choice. My bouquet was made of white camellias. On our honeymoon, the day-old bouquet smelled so bad that we threw the flowers away. Since gardenias have such a wonderful fragrance, I am sure that you did not Have that problem. I am glad to see that you are still blogging at Pensieve.
Molly