How to Hold Your Wedding
Bouquet
Categories: | Wedding Ceremony | Wedding Dresses|
When the
nerves kick in, the flowers go north! That's a
fact. And that means that your guests (and your
best beloved) will miss out seeing the detail of
you dress, and maybe part of your face.
Turns
out that there is a right way to hold a bouquet,
and an infinite number of other ways you can do
that. Just give a bunch of anything to a small
child and sit back and watch the (sometimes)
hilarious variations they come up with.
Carry
your bouquet the right way, and your photos will
be fantastic.0
Types of bouquet
Other styles of bouquet are the teardrop and the sheath. A tear drop bouquet usually has a handle concealed behind the flowers. Apart from holding the handle, rather than the stems, the advice below holds good. A sheath bouquet, aka as a long-stemmed bouquet, is a whole other deal, but in many ways simpler to deal with. It is long, so you hold it in the crook of your arm in much the same way you would cradle a baby. Flowers hanging over on the outside of your elbow, stems lying down the length of your inner forearm, with your hand controlling, steadying, and hanging onto the stems.
The trick is knowing where
your belly button is
How to hold a posy
bouquet
- Pick up your bouquet with your hand
somewhere between the middle of the stems and
just under the flowers. You will feel when it
is balanced in your hand. If someone is going
to be walking you down the aisle, you'll have
one hand free to put in the crook of their
arm. If you are walking down the aisle on your
own put the other hand over the top of the
hand that's holding the bouquet. If your
flowers have thick woody stems, the stem of
your bouquet might be quite thick and it may
be more comfortable to hold it with both hands
side by side, fingertip to fingertip.
- Check that the greens are falling naturally, and, if you have floating ribbons attached, make sure they are cascading over your hand
- Bring your hand to near your belly button,
either hovering over it, or between your hip
and your belly button.
- Angle the stems slightly to one side (this
keeps the ends away from your dress) and tilt
the bouquet slightly forward, so that everyone
sees the flowers and your your hand and the
stems are covered by the flowers, an
- Relax your arms slightly, so that there is a bit of light showing between your body and your arms - but not too much. It isn't the chicken dance!
- Relax your shoulders!
Walking up or down
stairs or steps
Or, to create a sweet moment, when you get to the top of the steps, hand your bouquet to your escort to carry down the steps, and, in another sweet moment, ceremoniously hand it back to you when you are on level ground again.
Handing off and handing
back
When does this happen? While it is not unusual for a bride to hand over her bouquet straight away, I always you suggest that you keep it until I ask you to pass it to you MOH or another person. Having something to hold helps settle the nerves, your bouquet is very much part of your overall look, you've spent time and money on it, and it is not until you are up the front that your guests have an opportunity to really appreciate it's beauty.
Passing your bouquet also gives you the opportunity to use it to pay tribute to someone special. To pause during the ceremony to walk across and give your flowers to your mother, your grandmother, or someone else special to you, and whisper a few words of love and appreciation. Don't worry, I will ask them to lend it back to you to put on the signing table and for photos.
The signing table
Formal photos before
and after the ceremony
At the reception
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