wedding ceremony

simple pointers to help you be comfortable at your wedding ceremony.

Make sure that your bouquet and those of your attendants are not so heavy that you won't be able to hold them through your wedding.

A wedding bouquet is held at about belly button height. Hold your hands snug against your belly (which offers you support in holding the flowers and doesn't let anyone see that your hands are shaking!).

You hold the flowers toward the community, not the stems. No one wants to see the stems, no matter how beautifully wrapped.

If you're carrying a sheaf of flowers, they rest in the crook of your left arm like a baby. Borrow your friend's baby and practice a bit. Look at old movies about Pageant winners.

Practice the royal wave, you may want to use it that day, you'll certainly feel like royalty.

If you're carrying a ball of flowers suspended from a ribbon on your wrist, fold that arm across your waist so that the ball hangs down the front of your gown.

A nosegay, or tussy-mussy is a lighter bouquet which can be held at belly button level if large enough or simply at waist level.

During the ceremony, have a small table with a receptacle that can hold your flowers while you're needing your hands. The vase will have to be heavy enough to hold the flowers without tipping over. (Stones or glass marbles in the bottom of the vase can help that.) You may want to hand off your flowers, but many of the bouquets are so heavy these days that it can be too much to hold two bouquets.

You'll want the same vase at the reception so that your flowers can be displayed to their full advantage. And the attendants will need vases in front of them as well.

Flower balls should be light enough that they can continue to swing from your wrist (and not so long they drag on the ground should you drop your arm to the side.).

Tussy-mussies can often tuck into a loop at the waste of your dress, if you have thought about it. Otherwise, they can sit in a smaller vase.

There. Simple, easy, and now you're set to be a beautiful bride and the queen of your day as you join your heart with your beloved's in marriage.

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