Flowers also accompany sad events in a person’s life and also mark those sad moments when we leave someone close or dear to us. Flowers serve as an expression of respect and sorrow for the dead and emphasize the irreparable loss and pain we experience when saying goodbye to a close relative or good acquaintance. However, faced with such moments in life, we sometimes get lost and do not know how many flowers it is customary to bring to a funeral.
Everyone knows that people come to a funeral with an even number of buds in the arrangement. Not knowing the history of this custom, we obey the generally accepted rules and strictly adhere to them – we go to the funeral with an even number of flowers, and alive we give an odd number of plants in a bouquet.
Even numbers have always been associated with the end, with death. In addition, fallen soldiers were always given two flowers – one for the dead, the other for God. All this influenced the formation of the traditions we observe today. But an odd number symbolizes the continuation of a thing, movement.
You are allowed to bring more than two flowers. The composition can have up to eight buds, but always an even number. At the same time, it is acceptable to bring a composition with a larger number of colors, then the symbolism of numbers will simply be lost. It does not matter how many buds there are in a bouquet of more than a dozen flowers.
