These camellias are made with three strands each, expressing one of the most-quoted verses at weddings: Ecclesiastes 4:12.
Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
The two flowers are different but are intertwined and have become one, just as bride and groom are joined together through the marriage union: Mark 10:7-9.
'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.
Camellias symbolise both "love" and "a noble death" in Japan, where the art of mizuhiki (knot tying) originates. Therefore they remind husband and wife to love each with the same sacrificial love that Christ has for us: John 15:13.
There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Finally, the hanging grapes on the envelope tell the married couple to, "Be fruitful and multiply!" (Genesis 1:28).
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