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Vintage Simple Wedding DressThe reason why the orange blossom is worn by brides is not satisfactorily known. The general opinion seems to be that it was originally adopted as an emblem of fruitfulness.
It has also been suggested that this custom was introduced by French milliners, and that the flower in question was selected for its beauty, rather than for any symbolical reason. A correspondent of "Notes and Queries" tells us that the practice has been derived from the Saracens, amongst whom the orange blossom was regarded as a symbol of a prosperous marriage ; and this is partly to be accounted for by the fact that, in the East, the orange tree bears ripe fruit and blossom at the same time.
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