When looking for a gift for your loved one, you want to find something that is special and different. Whilst gold is a popular gift, a gold rose gift is symbolic of your love which is perfect for those who find it hard to express their feelings of care and devotion to those they are closest to. Here we look at the gift of a gold rose and why it is an eternal symbol of your love.
Gold roses
In nature, a gold rose is one with a deep yellow hue, a colour of warmth and joy. Gold roses signify friendship and joy and within marriage a love that has matured with age, secure in its strengths to indicate a steadfast affection. There are many gold roses that you can plant to mark a golden wedding anniversary, but if you have no place to grow a plant, a precious metal gold rose will add joy to a room every day over every season.
Another type of gold rose is a real rose picked at the peak of perfection and preserved in gold and guaranteed to last a lifetime. The quality of these roses is far higher than most gold metal roses and the combined symbolism of gold (beauty) with roses (love) makes them extra special. Although more expensive than natural gold roses, these blooms can be enjoyed daily for years.
A gold rose can also be an artificial rose made from the precious metal. These are often not of good quality and can become tarnished or worn very quickly.
Symbolism of gold
Gold is sacred, durable and precious. Gold is symbolic of many things including wealth and abundance due to its value, as well as immortality and incorruptibility because it does not rust. Aside from being considered the heart of the earth, gold also represents heart, love and blood.
Symbolism of roses
Roses symbolise love and romance, though this general meaning can extend beyond that when you consider the colour of the rose. Many cultures see the red rose as a symbol of love, the rose can symbolise a variety of feelings depending on their colour, and also the number gifted. Other colours show love in different forms from friendship to a way of saying congratulations, which make them an ideal flower to express your feelings.
The importance of numbers
Less well known is that there is symbolism in the number of gifted rose blooms. A single rose is often gifted to those you love and can also indicate ‘love at first sight’. To say “I love you” gift three roses. If you want to show your partner or a friend just how much you care about them, five roses is ideal. A bouquet of six roses is a subtle way of letting the person you are dating know that you want to take the relationship to the next level. Nine roses are a symbol of eternal love and are most often given to those you wish to spend the rest of your life with. 10 roses will show someone special that they are perfect whilst a dozen roses are for the person you want to be yours. Splash out on two dozen roses for the one who is always on your mind, because this is what that bouquet symbolises.
