Customs and traditions: a garter of the bride

Customs and traditions: a garter of the bride
 Probably no one bride who would not put on a wedding beautiful lace ribbon or braid - the garter. As there is no guy who at least once at the wedding of friends did not catch this garter. Comic contest for this simple part of the wedding dress has always been a storm of applause and delight. Where did this tradition has gone and whether you want to actually catch the garter?

By the way, since ancient times women used garters only to support stockings. However, romance invented a new interpretation of garters, making them one of the most romantic things feminine wedding toilet. Even in France, the XIV century, each guest was trying to carry the wedding feast with anything from clothes young. It was believed that the person to whom it will be possible, waiting for love and luck. A little later there was a version that in this way the rest of the spouse shows that the ego is a woman, after all garter associated with innocence and virginity.

It is worth noting that during the celebration should be the first to throw the garter, and only then - the bride's bouquet. And after the ceremony the happy owners of the bouquet and garter must dance a slow dance.
To garter brought happiness and a young bride, and the one who caught it, it must be worn on the right foot. If we talk about the traditional color of the items of clothing, that is so popular today, a white garter put only the most modest means the bride and the girls from families with good fortune wore blue or blue as a sign of purity, innocence and nobility. Sometimes garter could read the character of the bride and future family life: red ladies prefer hot and passionate, green symbolized youth and inexperience of the bride, if the garter was yellow, then a young family waiting for wealth and prosperity. Now, however, increasingly pick up the color of the garter dress or shoes.

By the way, do not always agree to remove the garter of the bride at the wedding, it is much more likely to have occurred during the wedding night and it was a symbol of the beginning of the honeymoon. Savvy American ladies prefer to wear two garters, one thrown into a crowd of singles, but for the second shot the groom in the bedroom. But if you decide to remove it during the celebration, consider the view and the age of the guests: it gently, without raising high hem of her dress and showing even so popular with guests passion. Hurry it should not be: one awkward movement can spoil the whole ritual, especially if the bride or groom confused fall in the lap. By the way, the custom to remove the garter teeth - just a tribute to youth fashion, so the couple must decide in advance to comply with it or not.

In any case, remember that it's just a tradition that was invented by people for more fun and festive bright mood. And if the couple will eliminate this ritual of the wedding scenario, it is necessary to take this understanding, there is still a lot of wedding traditions that accurately deliver extra pleasure.

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