Planning a Wedding. Flowers and Bridal Bouquets
Real or Fake Flowers: it’s your Wedding so it is your choice.
You might be surprised to find that some silk flowers can easily pass for real flowers when scrutinized up close…sometimes it is only when a curious person touches the flowers that they realize the flowers are made of silk. The advantage to silk flowers is that they can be arranged long before the wedding ever takes place, and they can be kept forever as mementos of your special day.
There are still many brides, however, who feel that silk flowers are tacky and cheap. There is also something to be said for the delicious scents a chapel full of flowers can present, and unless fragrance is added to silk flowers they simply cannot compare.
When making the decision regarding your flowers it is a good idea to investigate both options. Don’t make this important decision sight unseen; you may find that silk flowers really aren’t as bad as you think they are or instead you may find that you simply can’t resist the aroma of real flowers when you had always intended to utilize silk flowers.
Don’t forget that you can always combine the two. You can present quite a spectacular display by augmenting real flowers with silk ones. Just remember: bigger is not always necessarily better.
Whichever type of flowers you choose to use it’s important to realize that simplicity can be the key…you don’t need to fill a room to the gills with flowers to make it gorgeous.
Do you have allergies? Avoiding the wedding tears
You can’t ignore the fact that flowers make you sneeze if you have a propensity towards seasonal allergies. You may envision a chapel full of beautiful fresh flowers but if you know that this sort of arrangement will inevitable lead to you coughing, sneezing, and generally feeling miserable then it is probably best to simply go with silk flowers or some other form of synthetic arrangements.
If you are insistent upon having real flowers at your ceremony regardless of your inclination towards reacting poorly towards pollen-laden organisms then you may want to invest in a visit to your doctor or allergist to see if you can receive some sort of allergy medicine or injection just prior to the wedding.
Get a back-up wedding bouquet of flowers.
You may not have thought about this yet, but you’re expected to throw your bouquet to all the eligible women at the end of the wedding reception. As the old wives tale would have it, the woman who catches the bouquet will be the next woman to get married.
The same goes for your garter, except it is the groom who tosses it and it’s to the eligible men at the reception. This is a fun tradition, and both are generally expected at each wedding reception.
If the thought of tossing your bouquet or garter horrifies you because you want to keep both as keepsakes then it is a great idea to purchase a back-up bouquet and garter. This bouquet can be smaller and less elaborate, as long as it is large enough to catch some air as you throw it to the leaping women anxiously waiting to receive it.
If you wish to keep your garter then do the same thing. You might wear the one you intend to keep on one leg while the garter for tossing is on the other leg; just be sure that your groom understands which is which.
The reception can act as a sort of reward for all your hard work over the last few months of planning the wedding. It’s a celebratory and triumphant party which gives you and your new husband a chance to sit back, take a breath, and then enjoy the occasion with the people closest to you.
Although there are a lot of details to consider when planning your reception, if it is done right you will have the best party of your life with the love of your life.
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