Flower girl tradition- where did it started?

You’ll agree with me that a flower girl adds beauty to the wedding day. Those little angels that walk down the aisle wow everyone. They really steal everyone’s heart at the wedding day. 

When they walk down the aisle the wedding ceremony starts. In other words they set the tone of the happiest wedding celebration ever. Sweet flower girl, as well as the beautiful bride, always steals the show!

But how did it started let's first take a quick look at the flower girl tradition.

By tradition when the bride and her bridesmaids walk to the church together, a little girl would start the procession and lead them to the church while scattering flower blossoms along the path.

This act is said to help bring a life filled with flowers and happiness to the bride. This tradition still stays until today in modern weddings.

Way back in the Middle Ages, flower girls were assigned a special job and this is the same job they do today. They walk down the wedding aisle ahead of the bride and groom and spread grain but not flowers in order to pave the way for a new beginnings, fertility and happiness in the marriage.

Based on history, the first flower girl made an appearance in ancient Rome, carrying sheaths of wheat and herbs for blessings of fertility and prosperity in a new union.

Later on in the Elizabethan era, there would be rose petals covered the entire path from the bride’s home to the church. A flower bearer followed a group of merry musicians in the wedding precession. 

Back then the flower girl would carry a sliver bride’s cup adorned in ribbons and hold a gilded rosemary branch. Miniature bouquets are prepared as gifts to wedding guests and the bride’s family home is decorated with knotted ropes full of blossoms and greenery.

In today's modern times flowers girls usually carry rose petals, and while not everybody believes that they have special powers that will grant the new couple a harmonious relationship it still brings hope to the newly wed.