Mothering Flowers for those Mother’s Day Sundays
We’ve been a little quiet on the blog front this past few weeks – call it a little blog break while we recovered from the excitement of serving sumptuous fresh flowers to the nation’s romantics on Valentine’s Day, then just a few weeks later, creating the perfect Mother’s Day bouquet arrangements for mums, grandmas and godmothers across the UK.
But it doesn’t stop there, it is actually only Great Britain, Ireland and Nigeria that celebrate Mother’s Day on the fourth Sunday of lent and, in fact, most of our international cousins consider May to be the month of Mothering Sundays with the most popular date falling on the second Sunday of May.
It is generally believed that Mother’s Day is celebrated internationally around the world on a variety of days through the year because the event has a number of different origins. For instance, in Iran the day originally commemorated the birthday of Fatima, Muhammad’s daughter. In Canada, Mother’s Day was introduced in the mid-19th century as a call to unite women against war.
With our burgeoning portfolio of European ventures in the guise of Arena Bloemen (Netherlands), Arena Blumen (Germany), and Arena Bloemen Belgium, as well as our international flower delivery service, our development team now consider Arena mums all year round, not just for Mother’s Day.
To help them, and you, here’s a comprehensive list of the countries we serve, and their respective Mother’s Days for the next twelve months…
May 3rd: Hungary, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain.
May 8th: South Korea (Parents’ Day)
May 10th: USA, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Honduras, Hong Kong, Iceland, Italy, India, Jamaica, Japan, Latvia, Leichtenstein, Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Switzerland, Trinidad, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
May 15th: Paraguay.
May 26th: Poland (“Dzień Matki”).
May 27th: Bolivia.
May 30th: Nicaragua.
May 31st: Dominican Republic, France, Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia.
June 14th: Luxembourg.
June 28th: Kenya.
August 12th: Thailand.
August 15th: Antwerp Province (Belgium), Costa Rica.
October 12th: Malawi.
October 14th: Belarus.
October 18th: Argentina.
December 8th: Panama.
December 22nd: Indonesia.
Between 30th January – 1st March: Israel.
February 2nd: Greece.
February 14th: Norway.
March 8th: Armenia. Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine.
March 21st: Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
March 25th: Slovenia.
April 7th: Armenia.
If you enjoyed this post and would like to know more about Mother’s Day, check out Will’s rather excellent blog post on the moon’s influence on when we celebrate Mother’s Day in the UK.
Filed under: General, International Flowers, Marketing, Mega Days, Mother's Day on April 23rd, 2009
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Thanks for the list! While we here in the US celebrate mother’s day on the 2nd Sunday in May, I lots of customers from other countries who come at other times for their holiday flowers, especially that first week of March.
Isreal?
Are you making a political statement?
Or just a fake spelling?
;-)
Ooops – I blame these (American) Qwerty keyboards – tis a conspiracy! ;op