1. Why does the bride carry a bouquet?
The bouquet originated from the ancient Western custom that strong-smelling spices and herbs (even garlic and fine onions) could protect the wedding party from bad luck and disease. This custom was later carried on and gradually took on more meaning. Today, a well-known saying is that an unmarried woman who receives a bouquet from the bride at a wedding will be blessed and become the next bride to be married.
2. What is the relationship between the groom's boutonniere and the hand bouquet?
Strictly speaking, the groom's boutonniere should be a bouquet of flowers inside the bride's hand bouquet, the same color, the same flowers, in addition to the need to pay special attention to the bride does not wear a corsage, if the bride wears a corsage and hand bouquet, but also to wear the wrist flowers and head flowers, so many flowers will look very messy. Therefore, the bride hand bouquet at the same time, only wear wrist flowers or head flowers. There is a point to note Oh, the groom boutonniere is worn on the left lapel buttons rather than chest pocket Oh!
3. Why should the bride wear a veil?
About the origin of the veil has many versions, in fact, the bride to wear a veil of traditional customs from the United Kingdom. Because the British people worship white, they believe that white symbolizes the purity of love. So when getting married, the bride will wear a white wedding dress, hold a white bouquet in her hand and wear a white veil on her head. However, in Ancient Greece, when the newlyweds performed the marriage ceremony, the bride would wear a linen or woolen veil, and both the bride and groom would wear flower crowns. In Roman times, people of different religions wore veils of different colors to show their differences. After the Middle Ages, flower crowns decorated with pearls appeared in the court. Later, the flower crown developed into the white veil, and the length of the veil became longer and longer, and the style became a fashionable pursuit. By combining different styles, the face and body shape can be modified.
4. Why do brides wear gloves?
Legend has it that in the West, whenever there is a worship service, if any young man has a crush on a girl, he will give her white gloves. When the next time they went to worship, if the girl wore the gloves, it meant that she was willing to accept the boy's proposal of marriage. It was also a token of love sent by the prospective groom to his sweetheart to stabilize her heart. Therefore, it was popular for many gentlemen at that time to give gloves to their intended to indicate a marriage proposal.
①White color symbolizes purity;
② white wedding gloves, wearing the new wedding ring, not only in the night light glows brilliantly, but also increase the contact area and friction of the ring, to avoid the ring in the wedding party accidentally slipped, lost;
③ gloves are also a good decorative items, can be matched with clothing, but also can cover the bride hand type or skin color and other aspects of the lack of, etc..
5. Why are most wedding dresses white?
Before the 19th century, there was no uniform color requirement for wedding dresses, and various colors could be used as wedding dresses. Until 1840, the British Victoria in the wedding ceremony wearing a white wedding dress stunning debut, immediately recognized as a product of fashion. This set off a wave of pursuit at the time, brides-to-be have to follow suit, the wedding are scrambling to wear white dresses, since then white wedding dresses have become mainstream wedding dresses. Today the white wedding dress has become a symbol of purity, simplicity and whiteness.