Kate’s bouquet was a wired bouquet of lily of the valley, sweet william and hyacinth with myrtle and ivy.  As tradition dictates, the bouquet contained stems from a myrtle tree planted at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, by Queen Victoria in 1845, and a sprig from a plant grown from the myrtle used in The Queen’s wedding bouquet of 1947.

My Take
I must say, I wasn’t that impressed with Kate’s bouquet. Maybe it just wasn’t what I was expecting.  I thought is was on the small side and not very exciting.  My main complaint, it wasn’t trend setting.  As a wedding planner, I have seen that bouquet before.  That exact bouquet.  In fact, I believe it was on the cover of a wedding magazine in the past few years.  I was expecting the future Queen of England to set the trends for the upcoming wedding seasons.  Show me something I can’t even imagine.  Needless to say, I was disappointed. I did like how she used sweet william, as she is marring a William, and I LOVED how stems from a myrtle tree planted in 1845 were used.  You know I’m all about the sentimentality.  Overall though I’d say the bouquet was ‘okay.’  What did you think?