Droof-Valenzuela Wedding (Private Event)

Saturday, September 14, 2024

3:00 PM  7:30 PM

Interested in hosting your wedding ceremony or rehearsal dinner amidst thousands of blooms? It would be our honor to help you celebrate one of life’s greatest moments. There’s also deep traditions across many cultures of celebrating weddings with mead! Whether right or wrong, many believe that mead has close ties to the  post-marriage celebration and is the reason we have the term “Honeymoon”  to this day.

Within many cultures including Welsh, German and Scandinavian mead  was often consumed during the wedding celebration as a toast to the  bride and groom. After the wedding the couple was given enough mead to  continue the toasting for one month following the wedding, or one cycle  of the moon – hence the term “honeymoon” – One month of honey wine.

Not only was mead great for toasting and celebrating, it was also  considered an aphrodisiac and was said to increase fertility and  virility. What more do you need on a honeymoon? It was believed that by  drinking mead for that first month, the bride would become fruitful and a  child would be born within the year. Often, the groom filled with his  fair share of Mead, was carried to the bedside of his bride. If nine  months later, a baby was born, credit was given to the Mead.



So if you are getting married, grab a generous supply of mead and celebrate the history of the occasion!