Add botanical flair to your correspondence with these beautiful unused Wedding Series "Garden Bouquet" postage stamps! This classic bridal bouquet design is perfect for adding a touch of style to your cards and letters or save-the-dates and wedding invitations. In pristine mint condition, these self-adhesive 37-cent USPS postage stamps are valid for current mailing when combined with the total required postage based on the weight of your correspondence. Embrace timeless elegance with this classy postage stamp!

Purchase includes a total of TEN (10) mint condition postage stamps shown in the product listing photos.

STAMP INFORMATION:

• Name: Garden Bouquet
• Series: Wedding Series
• Year Issued: 2004
• Face Value: 37-cents (USD) per stamp
• Topic(s): Pink Roses, White Lilacs, Flowers, Floral, Botanical, Bouquet, Wedding Bouquet, Bridal Flowers, Pastels, Victorian-era Botanical Art
• Color(s): Pink, Green, White, Pastels, Multicolored
• Mailing Occasions: Wedding Invitations, Save the Date Announcements, Shower Invitations, Birth Announcements, Thank You Cards, Valentine’s Day, Snail Mail, and more…
• Printing Method: Lithography
• Scott Number: 3836
• Adhesion Type: Self-adhesive
• Condition: Genuine Unused USPS Postage Stamps, Ready to Use for USPS Mailings, Mint Condition

STAMP DESCRIPTION & HISTORY: This 37-cent Garden Bouquet postage stamp is a classic floral issue from the United States Postal Service (USPS) Wedding Series, created specifically for elegant correspondence such as wedding invitations, save-the-dates, bridal showers, and anniversary announcements. Issued on March 4, 2004 in New York, NY, this stamp reflects the refined, romantic aesthetic of early-2000s USPS wedding postage.

The Garden Bouquet stamp was designed by Richard Sheaff of Scottsdale, Arizona, and features artwork reproduced from a 19th-century chromolithograph, lending it a timeless, heirloom quality. The illustration depicts a lush garden bouquet composed primarily of soft pink roses and delicate white lilacs, arranged in a full, rounded cluster. The gentle pastel palette, subtle shading, and painterly detail evoke traditional bridal florals and Victorian-era botanical art, making the design especially well-suited for formal and romantic stationery.

This 37-cent denominated stamp is commonly paired with additional vintage or Forever postage for modern mailing. Highly sought after for curated postage sets, the Garden Bouquet stamp remains a favorite among brides, stationers, and collectors for its graceful composition and enduring symbolism of love, celebration, and new beginnings.

STAMP MEANING & SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE: As a bouquet rather than a single bloom, this stamp’s design symbolizes the coming together of distinct lives, families, and intentions into one shared whole—an image long associated with marriage and sacred partnership. Spiritually, a bouquet represents intentional gathering: love chosen, arranged, and offered with care, rather than love that arises by chance alone.

The specific flowers depicted deepen this meaning. Pink roses traditionally signify affectionate love, grace, and emotional warmth, while white lilacs are associated with purity, renewal, and the innocence of new beginnings. Together, they convey a balanced spiritual message: love that is both tender and committed, romantic yet grounded. The soft pastel palette and classical composition further reinforce themes of peace, devotion, and continuity, suggesting love as something meant to be nurtured over time.

STAMP SERIES HISTORY: The Wedding Series postage stamps are a long-running category of special-use stamps issued by the USPS to complement formal, romantic, and ceremonial correspondence—most notably wedding invitations, save-the-dates, bridal showers, and anniversaries. Introduced in the late 20th century and continuing through the early 2000s, the Wedding Series is distinguished by its refined aesthetic and symbolic imagery. Visually, stamps in this series stamps emphasize timeless romance and elegance. Designs commonly feature floral arrangements, bouquets, roses, hearts, doves, wedding rings, lace motifs, and soft ornamental patterns, rendered in gentle color palettes such as blush pinks, creams, ivories, soft greens, and muted pastels. Many issues draw inspiration from classical botanical illustration, Victorian-era art, or traditional wedding iconography, creating stamps that feel heirloom in character rather than contemporary or graphic. By offering stamps specifically tailored to weddings and formal announcements, this series elevates postage into a meaningful finishing detail—one that quietly reinforces themes of union, devotion, harmony, and new beginnings at the very moment messages of love and promise are sent into the world.

GENUINE USPS POSTAGE: These unused vintage postage stamps are perfectly valid for use as current postage for mailing with USPS as long as you use an adequate amount of additional postage to achieve standard postage rates according to the weight of your mailing. Check current postage rates on the USPS website.

PROCESSING & SHIPPING: Orders are typically processed and shipped within 1-3 business days of placing your order. All orders are shipped from California — please allow additional time for transit.

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TELL YOUR STORY IN STAMPS: We’ve worked with hundreds of couples and their stationers to custom design highly stylized personalized postage sets based on our customer’s life stories. We can help you curate personalized vintage postage sets to commemorate your save-the-date, wedding, shower, announcement, and other special occasions in a truly unique fashion. Drawing on our encyclopedic knowledge of every stamp ever issued by the USPS, and sourcing from our extensive inventory of collectable unused vintage stamps, we’ll help you tell your unique story in stamps!

ABOUT HERITAGE POST HOUSE: Jennifer Kramer is the founder of Heritage Post House, a boutique vintage postage house located in Northern California. Jennifer sources the most beautiful unused vintage postage stamps ever issued by USPS and artfully arranges them into curated postage sets that are sure to add a special touch to your invitations, announcements, and special mailings. In addition to creating pre-arranged postage sets, Jennifer also works with couples (and their stationers) to create one-of-a-kind custom postage arrangements for wedding invitations, save the dates, and other special occasions.


Product Specifications

Length: 1.18 in.
Height: 0.01 in.
Width: 0.94 in.
Weight: 0.01 lbs.