The Most Important Sense in Planning Your Wedding

Your wedding is going to be amazing. You have chosen to unite with your soulmate through a ceremony of love, committing to each other forever, surrounded by people you treasure. You have a truly exciting, happy, memorable time ahead of you.

In the time before this special day, you have a lot of wonderful decisions to make. You will be choosing your dress, which is probably something you have thought about since an early age. Will it have lace detail? Be a big poofy one? Or a fishtail? Will it have a sweetheart neckline? A halterneck? There are lots and lots of decisions surrounding just that one thing, aren’t there? Other important choices will be the venue, the color scheme, the style and the choice of wedding party. Aside from these key selections that you’ll make, there are probably lots of other things that will crop up that you never even thought of. New trends and wedding features that could really perfect the entire look and feel of your wedding. Almost every bride that we talk to wants their guests to have a great time, and wants to create a memorable and unique event. It is sometimes these special little features that can make all the difference. One such feature is fragrance, and you’re going to be really glad it’s cropped up while you still have the chance to add it into your plans.

Hasn’t Fragrance Always Been An Important Part Of Any Wedding With Flowers?

For many years, the main part fragrance has played at a wedding has been via the natural scent of the flowers. The strong scent of any flower is a delicious addition to any occasion, especially at a wedding, where you can see blooms galore and you expect a heady natural scent to accompany them. Unfortunately, blooms of late simply don’t pack the same glorious smelling punch anymore, and there is a clear scientific reason for it – the gene RhNUDX1. Scientists have discovered that this gene switches on the scent in many blooms and with the genetic engineering commercial flowers go through now, the gene has simply been missing in modern plants. This means they look beautiful, but they provide no accompanying fragrance because they have been bred for their appearance only.

They can still smell nice, if you stick your nose literally right in the flower or if you filled the room to the brim with flowers, but what bride has the budget for that. Today more than ever before weddings are becoming more and more expensive and if you are not getting married in the tropics then flowers are a key part of this increasing expense. So to get the fragrance you want at the price your budget can afford, you will need to look at alternatives to flowers.

So, this leaves a complete sense available to add another layer to your wedding. You’ve put so much thought into the music, the look of your wedding, the feel of the different fabrics, the taste of the drinks and the food, so why wouldn’t you put the same thought into the fragrance of your wedding?

A Memorable And Emotional Sense

Our sense of smell has strong connections to emotion. When we smell things, the scent makes its way to our limbic system which play a great role in memory, emotion and mood.

With smell and memory in particular, there is a close link. Smells can easily conjure up truly beautiful memories. The scent of apple might bring back memories of baking at grandma’s when you were little, or the smell of peach might remind you of soap in the chalet from family summer holidays by the sea. These memories can be evoked very quickly and spontaneously and tend to stay with us forever. In fact, studies show that a scent is more accurate and faster at triggering memories than sight. So if you think your wedding portraits are important, then your wedding scent is even more so. So it makes complete sense that you would want to include scent in your wedding, so you have a beautiful way to bring back vivid memories of the day, just with a waft of fragrance.

The power of smell doesn’t end there either; it is also incredibly emotive. Fragrance, particularly based on essential oils, brings all sorts of emotions to us for lots of different reasons. Power of association, perception, pheromones in the fragrance – these are just some of the reasons fragrance can be incredibly emotive. So choosing a particular fragrance for your wedding and using it in certain places, in different ways, can add a truly powerful element to your special day.

How to Create the Right Fragrance at your Wedding?

Now you know how important scent is, and what a significant contribution it can bring to your wedding day, you need to know how to use it! Here are 6 top tips to help you get fragrance right during your wedding process:

1. Your priority should be choosing a signature scent for your entire wedding process. It could be a perfume, or an essential oil. Common popular scents used at weddings are: jasmine, vanilla, patchouli, ylang ylang, rose, orange blossom and citrus. So if you choose jasmine for example, a gorgeous romantic, sweet smell, you can implement it into your wedding in many ways.
2. You could have reed diffusers in the room as you get ready on the morning of the wedding, and then also have them on all the tables at the reception (much safer and longer lasting than candles).
3. You could dab it onto a handkerchief which you keep in your clutch.
4. You can dab it onto a little love note for your husband to be on the morning of your wedding.
5. You might want to choose a special perfume that includes your signature essential oil, so you can spritz yourself with it throughout the day. Choosing the right scent and using it in the lead up to the wedding and on the day, is a really clever thing to do and means you can use it for milestone events for years to come as a reminder of this special time.
6. You can make sure you use a reed diffuser with the scent at every wedding related party or occasion so your entire wedding process has a scent. From the engagement party all the way through to the honeymoon. That way the smell will connect to many gorgeous moments and memories for you, your partner and everyone involved in the wedding. Just imagine walking into a beautiful hotel room on your first anniversary (or 50^th) and the first thing that you notice is the same beautiful fragrance that brings memories flooding back of the most beautiful time in your life.

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