A Symbolic Throw

The Bride retrieves the beautifully dyed bouquet of roses, purples, blues and whites, from the cake table and turns to address the participants. The bridesmaids and women gather in anticipation of the tradition, adorned in matching shades and hues of dark lavender and light lazuli with white shoes and petticoats.

Her long, dark brown hair wisping into the cool foreboding breeze as she scanned her friends and family. She lowered her arms draped in white as far as she could and let them fly back up, releasing the roses to fall to the next in line.

A slight and effeminate gasp left the softly tinged lips of the Bride of Honour, and she drew her hand back from the caught bouquet to find her finger had been pricked by a thorn in the bouquet that symbolized her as next to be wed.

How should one interpret such a foreboding coincidence? Is it foretelling an imperfect or difficult relationship to come? Perhaps a swift divorce or separation? Or is it of no significance? Only one thing is for certain: a certain flower shop is going to have an earful of accusation and grievance.