Sherlock Holmes on flowers

In "The Adventure of the Naval Treaty," Sherlock Holmes is momentarily distracted from his investigations by a moss-rose:

"There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion.  It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner.  Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers.  All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance.  But this rose is an extra.  Its smell and its colour are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.  It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers."

Below, my favorite flowers for the wedding.

1) Ranunculus can be pale or bright.  I love their lush, tightly petaled look.

2) Veronica, in the language of flowers, symbolizes female fidelity.  Veronicas are wildflowers, and would give the wedding a natural, inspired-by-a-meadow feel.  They come in white, pink, and blue.
3) Larkspur, the quintessential English cottage garden flower, comes in a range of blues and purples.  They look so dainty and lovely , and would be the perfect complement to heartier flowers in bouquets and arrangements.