It's tradition for bridal bouquets to contain white or cream-colored flowers such as stephanotis, roses, orchids, or lilies. From Wordnik.com. [Floral 411 For The Big Day | Tulsa World] Reference
Not that I knew anything at all beyond the fact that stephanotis, whatever it was, was always in the bride's bouquet. From Wordnik.com. [Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real] Reference
If they are not procurable, substitute great half-opened rose-buds, deepest pink and cream-color, and add the broken stars of the stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And in the bow with which he further defined his discomfort he added to it by dropping the bit of stephanotis which he wore in his buttonhole. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
Carved-wood barrows fitted with tin inside may hold a growing plant -- stephanotis, hyacinths, ferns, ivy, or any other hardy plant -- and are very pleasing souvenirs. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
The faintest whiff of stephanotis came to her on the lazy summer air. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
He felt as though he were in a hot-house full of gardenias and stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches] Reference
Allis knew who the friends were; the clinging touch of stephanotis had come with him. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
For the funeral there were crosses and wreaths of white flowers, roses and stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [A Mere Accident] Reference
Not the rose, or the violet, or the hyacinth, or any of the lilies or stephanotis or boronia. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Perhaps it was because she was so different from the woman who was always steeped in stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
The stephanotis, with the beautiful scented white flowers and glossy leaves, covers one of the posts. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]
Do it with smell: Gardenias, stephanotis, and lilies of the valley will remind grooms of the wedding later on. From Wordnik.com. [ScrippsNews] Reference
It was a white house in a garden, and after rain the scent of vanilla and stephanotis rose round it like a fog. From Wordnik.com. [Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3] Reference
The bride, who wore her hair in a bun with a long veil, held a bouquet of orchids and stephanotis with crystals. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
Lindi's bouquet was made from white and cream roses, tulips, stephanotis dotted with pearls, and mini calla lilies. From Wordnik.com. [Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle] Reference
The bride wore a wedding gown by Nicholas Ghesquiere and carried a bouquet of orchids and stephanotis with crystals. From Wordnik.com. [CHIC IN PARIS] Reference
The bride carried a hand cluster with ivory hydrangea, white freesia, white peonies, and stephanotis with pearl pins. From Wordnik.com. [news | WM | http://www.starnewsonline.com] Reference
'Yesterday I spent two hours in training and putting to rights my stephanotis, which now climbs over half my verandah. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Coleridge Patteson]
There was a strong evil odor of stephanotis wafted to his nostrils as the speaker shook her fan with impatient decision. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
Even the exotic stephanotis failed to obliterate the harsh, mercenary intensity of the feminine cry at the back of Allis. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
He looked up, and as he did so a stephanotis flower fell into the street and his eyes were met by two of clear azure blue. From Wordnik.com. [There was a King in Egypt] Reference
She always uses stephanotis scent that she gets from one special place in London, and it costs four and sixpence a bottle. From Wordnik.com. [A Patriotic Schoolgirl] Reference
The stephanotis was choking his nostrils, and an occasional word was filling his heart with confirmation of his suspicions. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
Before Phyl could answer this recondite question, she found herself enveloped in frills and a vague perfume of stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost Girl] Reference
She carried a bouquet of pink peonies, green orchids, pink calla lilies and roses, green hydrangeas, white stephanotis and crystals. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The stephanotis had had fake pearls threaded through their centers, just as she’d requested. From Wordnik.com. [Captivated by the Tycoon]
When she’d last seen him, he’d been wearing a black tuxedo with a boutonniere of stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [Captivated by the Tycoon]
I also smell something reminiscent of stephanotis there though I’ve never seen it listed anywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Fracas] Reference
Which do you think sweetest and most beautiful -- rose or stephanotis? ". From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
"O dear, no; they are so lovely," answered Clarissa, bending over a pyramid of stephanotis, "one can scarcely have too many of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Lovels of Arden] Reference
Of stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [A Parable of the Spirit] Reference
A ground of white stephanotis. From Wordnik.com. [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference
Where did you get that bunch of stephanotis? ". From Wordnik.com. [Macleod of Dare] Reference
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