Art and I celebrated our 50th Wedding Anniversary in early January with a few relatives and long time friend Diane who was my Maid of Honor so many years ago. We've also been friends for some 68 years.
A very dear relative stunned us by bringing a bouquet of 50 roses and a helium balloon.
I do love roses but I really don't like seeing them slowly die. It makes me sad. When we lived in Chicago, we had an enclosed heating system in the basement. I used to dry flowers in there because it was ventilated and dark.
Here in Hawaii, every room is pretty darn bright. However, since we have a guest bathroom that is not used when the kids aren't visiting, I hung the roses upside down on the shower stall grab bar once I saw the blooms drooping.
You can see the anniversary balloon is now losing its helium but fighting to stay afloat. We had a bit of fun wondering how long it would stay afloat.
I really like the look of the roses. It's a lovely reminder of the love that we shared and was shared with us during the happy celebration.
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I was just noticing that in brighter light, you can see more of the color.
I have never dried flowers like that but it works. My daughters keep any helium baloons they receive and I'm always amazed at how long they stay up. Our youngest still has a couple floating in her room from her mid Nov birthday!
ReplyDeleteI would have done the same thing had I gotten so many! My husband and I just celebrated our 50th anniversary this past September. Time has really flown!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
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Donna
They are beautiful both ways!
ReplyDeleteWow great job on the dried roses
ReplyDeleteLin Floyd says congrats on an important milestone-many more happy years together...
ReplyDeleteDo you still have your bridal bouquet preserved the same way? That would be something if you did. Did those roses have a scent? Most don't anymore which is a shame because that's part of the joy of getting roses. We will celebrate 49 in March.
ReplyDeleteMy mother-in-law was suffering from horrible rheumatoid arthritis and wasn't able to make the trip from the Big Island so I gave my bouquet to my father-in-law to bring back to her so she would know we were thinking of her. On our next trip back to the Big Island, I saw the rather dried up bouquet in a vase in their living room. I did have the BEST mother-in-law and father-in-law that I could ever have been blessed with.
DeleteAnd no... They don't have a scent. I don't have a sense of smell anymore so I had to ask Art.
Happy belated 50th! What a wonderful milestone. Drying the flowers was an excellent idea; my older daughter used to do that. It preserves them, as long as you don't touch them. They tend to crumble!
ReplyDeleteand I see you have the same closet doors that I have. I guess they were that way to keep air circulating.
ReplyDeleteIn Hawaii, the air is so humid that if you don't ventilate your closets it might cause mold to form.
DeleteOn the rare moments I have received roses, I usually take the petals off the stems and put them in a bowl to enjoy until they fade. And I love what you have done with them and might try that myself!
ReplyDeleteI did that once with a bouquet of roses. I had them around for a long time. I'm glad you preserved them as a memory.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful bouquet that you don't have to worry about watering. Congratulations on such a milestone in your lives!
ReplyDeleteI'd be out of my depth trying that.
ReplyDeleteCongrats again! You could maybe try drying some herbs that way too. I used to remove the petals from all the roses my first husband gave me and kept them in small woven baskets. Made a potpourri for awhile. I read many years ago, that the strong scent of roses grown commercially or privately has diminished over the last few decades. I notice that when I see flowers at the grocery store or Sam's Club: they have very little scent anymore in fresh roses. It's not your nose in this case. I guess it's why I like some of the strong scented lei in Hawaii. Linda in Kansas (mostly the smell of hay grass and cattle...)
ReplyDeleteI love the roses. So pretty.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the 50th
ReplyDeleteFifty years, wonderful! Your dried bouquet turned out so well. I miss the scent of roses, I wonder do the scentless ones last better?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on a significant milestone!
ReplyDelete50 years is very impressive ... and so are the flowers!
ReplyDeleteHappy Anniversary. Roses are beautiful, but they don’t have the lifespan of some other flowers.
ReplyDelete50 years! Oh Congratulations, Kay! A wonderful milestone. The flowers dried beautifully. I hate getting fresh flowers. I'd much rather get a potted flower that can go into the garden.
ReplyDeleteWhat a clever thing to do!
ReplyDeleteHappy belated 50th :)
ReplyDeleteDrying the flowers was an excellent idea.
All the best Jan
Congratulations on your 50th anniversary! Nice you can enjoy those beautiful roses a bit longer.
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