Traditionally, on the wedding day, the bride throws a bouquet to her unmarried girlfriends. This beautiful custom came from ancient times and was present at different times in many cultures. The bride's bouquet has always been treated differently.
The bride's bouquet is an important symbol of the wedding ceremony. This is an expression with the help of flowers of sincerity and completeness of the groom's feelings for his chosen one. The groom chooses flowers for the wedding bouquet personally, trying to match them not only to the wedding dress and the appearance of the bride, but also to emphasize the dignity of his beloved, to harmoniously highlight her character. The groom is usually assisted by experienced florists, and sometimes the bride herself.
According to the established custom, the groom gives his bouquet to the bride immediately after the ransom of the future wife. The fact of her acceptance of a wedding bouquet from him once again confirms her consent to marry him.
During the entire ceremony, the bouquet is in the hands of the bride. After the end of the holiday, she, turning her back to the guests present, throws it to her unmarried girlfriends. According to the sign, the one who catches this symbolic object should soon get married. She has to store the caught wedding bouquet until her own wedding.
The tradition of the bride to give her bouquet to her friends has deep roots. In the Middle Ages in Europe, they usually tore off a flap from a wedding dress in the hope that it would become a talisman and help its owner quickly marry. After the wedding dresses turned into an expensive and luxurious outfit, they began to be carefully stored and inherited. The flap was replaced by a leg garter, and later turned into a bouquet.
In Russia, after the wedding, the bride passed her bouquet "for luck" to her unmarried girlfriends. To do this, she was blindfolded, and the girls, leading a round dance around her, waited for her to randomly give flowers to any of them.
Nowadays, many couples don't want to make a lot of fuss about this tradition. She either drops completely, and the bride carefully keeps her wedding bouquet, or the couple orders a backup bouquet especially for unmarried girlfriends. Here, a variety of techniques and experience of florists are used to ensure elementary safety when throwing a bouquet to friends: thorns are cut, other flowers are used, artificial materials are woven.
Sometimes the bride gives a flower to her friends after the celebration, but for the most part wedding bouquets are kept as a relic, because this is a gift from the spouse on the wedding day, keeping his love.
If you have become a happy owner of a bride's bouquet, and it is made of natural flowers, then dry it with your heads down in a dark and warm place. After it dries, make a wish for your own future wedding, find a secluded place for it and wait. The artificial bouquet will remind you of your friend's wedding, an interesting custom and your desire. It can be placed like an Ekibanu by choosing a suitable place.
