Know How to Hold Your Bouquet!
Many brides and bridesmaids hold their bouquets in a
manner that blocks the view of their dress and causes their arms to tire
in a short amount of time. There's no need to hold your bouquet up
high, as Carrie is for her wedding in the upcoming Sex and the City
movie:
The proper way to hold a bouquet is to bend your arms
at a 90 degree angle and then let the weight of the bouquet bring them
down a bit further. An easier way to remember this is to have your hands
right about belly button level, as shown in these photos below. This
will keep your arms from turning into jello mid-ceremony and will allow
your photos to show off the dress you searched for so long to find.
{Source: http://www.blueorchidblog.com/2008/04/how-to-hold-your-bouquet.html}
- Make sure that your bridal and attendants' bouquets aren't so heavy that you really can't hold them comfortably for twenty minutes or longer.
- Hold your bouquet around belly button height. Rest your hands snug against your stomach (which offers you support in holding the flowers ... and hides any shaking hands!).
- Hold the blooms toward your guests, not the stems. No one wants to see those stems, no matter how beautifully they're wrapped.
- If you're carrying a sheaf of flowers, let them rest in the crook of your left arm like a baby. Borrow a good friend's baby (or a solid pillow) and practice a bit. Scan old movies with pageant winners.
- Practice the beauty queen wave. You may want to use it that day, you'll certainly feel one!
- If you're carrying a pomander or kissing ball 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 smaller, lighter bouquet. Hold it at belly button level if it's large enough, or simply at waist level.
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