To get the answer to the origin of the tradition of Valentines Day garland you need to step back a little into the history. This would take you around the 17th century when flowers were most importantly used as a symbol for love and devotion. The rose in particular is dedicated to love and is considered as the favorite flower of Goddess Venus who is also the Goddess of Love and Beauty.

The Connection Between The Valentines Day Garland And Romance

In those times, the Valentines Day garland was meant to say ‘I love you’ in a very subtle way. All the symbols that tie it to love, sexual passion and romance have been merged into this simple way of presenting a Valentines Day garland.

However, just giving the Valentines Day garland would not be all. This is by far too simple. What you would also have to pay attention to what type of flowers (and color) are used to make this garland before having the perfect Valentine Day gift.

The first choice for flowers would be the rose which is already associated with love and passion; you have then the yellow rose that symbolizes new and ever lasting friendship. If you are fishing in the waters of love, and want to only indicate that you are interested in someone but you do not have direct access all you need to do is send him or her a bouquet of yellow roses. This would mean that you are asking for her or his friendship.

There are also flowers that say it all with only their fragrance such as posies, amaryllis, red lilies and the like. This information would be helping you to choose how you want to declare your love to your sweetheart. The Valentines Day garland is only one among so many ways to make your love known on the Valentine Day.

The Romance Is Still Growing

With every legend that backs it up or rather fuels it up, Valentines Day garland is growing more exciting as a symbolic method used to declare your love with the help of flowers. This is indeed a legacy that is handed down over so many generations celebrating love and the exhilaration of the feelings generated when you first find out you are in love.

Remember when you use flowers on the Valentine’s day you can say a lot with the right choice of flowers. Add a mini-guide to the garland or with your greeting card, lest your partner miss the message sent due to ignorance about the meaning of the flowers that make the garland. 

When we think of Valentines Day, most of us have images of hearts, arrows, and small baby cupids running around in a diaper shooting people to make them fall in love in our minds. Oddly enough, Valentines Day really had absolutely nothing to do with love and romance until Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a poem for King Richard and his bride. Before that, little known Valentines Day facts state that the day originally commemorated the day Saint Valentine was beheaded for aiding Christian prisoners to escape from Roman inquisitors.

Obscure Valentines Day Facts

February 14th was originally a Roman festival day set aside for the ceremony of Lupercalia; an ancient fertility rite which was performed each year to help ensure fertile women, fertile crops, and was thought to protect fields from the wolves. A goat was killed and the hide torn into strips which were then dipped in the blood of the goat. The strips of flesh were then taken and used to spread the blood across the edges of the fields, and thrashed against the legs of the women in the town.

Some other little known Valentines Day facts include the fact that the Catholic Church actually recognizes eleven different saints named Valentine; and Valentines Day is actually in commemoration of three of those men. The first was a priest who performed secret Christian marriages in defiance of the Roman Emperor; the second was Saint Valentine who helped the Christians escape from the Roman inquisitors; and the third is mentioned very little except in reference to his name.

Still more little known Valentines Day facts include the fact that the very first “valentine” was said to have been written by the Duke of Orleans. Imprisoned, he is said to have penned a love note in rhyme to his beloved, which was then secreted away to her under the cover of darkness. This was at the beginning of the fifteenth century. It was at this same time that the day began to be associated with the day the love birds in England began their search for a mate, which is why love birds have come to be associated with the holiday.

There are so many different obscure Valentines Day facts available, these are but just the tip of the iceberg. It is also estimated that more than 24 million marriages occur each year on this day, and that more than $100 billion dollars worth of chocolates are sold for Valentines Day. Whatever the history of the holiday may be, the lesser known Valentines Day facts that you can find certainly make in an interesting one.