Garter for the bride, why is she?

The word "garter" in translation from French means a popliteal cavity, and also denotes an elastic band serving to support the stocking. Now the word "garter" denotes an element of the wedding attire of the bride, but earlier this garment was universally applied by women in everyday life. With her help stocking kept on the leg. Represents a garter of herself decorated with lace bows and flowers gum.

Wear it on the right foot slightly above the knee. Sometimes it seems unfair when another bride throws her bouquet across the back to the crowd of guests (according to the belief, the girl who caught him will soon be married). And the men at this time are shyly embarrassed on the sidelines.

In our society, for some reason it is believed that men are afraid to marry, but this is not so, many of them do not mind getting a family and children. For them, in order to balance the wedding tradition, they recently introduced the following: a freshly baked groom throws a garter from the bride's legs into the crowd of men. The value of this, the same as that of the bride's bouquet - the man caught in the garter soon marries. This tradition came to us from the west. There used to be thought that bringing a piece of a wedding dress to a newly-married couple means to lure the house luck. Because of this, the guests at the wedding tried to grab a piece of their newly-weds' clothes, and to save the young from such a shock began to throw in the crowd the garter of the bride, and the groom should take it off! The bride that women do not feel hurt, throws them a bouquet.

By the way, in North America, a young bride wears two garters. One above the knee, and the other about the palm above the first. The bridegroom removes the first garter at guests and throws it to her unmarried guests, and the second removes her alone. It's called honey. As it may seem, the groom takes off the garter and throws it into the crowd of guests before the bride throws her bouquet there. Now the truth, the order of scattering of ritual objects is not important and each couple solves this issue for themselves. As a rule, this happens near the end of the celebration, when everyone will have time to treat themselves to a wedding cake. When it's time to throw a garter, do it like this: put your bride on a chair, gently lift the skirt and feel for the garter with your hands, then loosen the gum and remove the garter by lifting the bride's leg. Doing this with teeth is inconvenient, as often the bride has wide and lush skirts. If the bride does not want to lift the skirt before the guests, the tradition allows the bride herself to take it off, then she must give it to you and turn her back to the crowd and throw the garter. Do not forget that the cloth is lightweight material, and you need to throw it with force so that it does not fall under your feet.

As already mentioned, it is believed that a man who caught a garter, soon marries and will be happy in marriage. It is also accepted that a man who has caught a garter dances with a woman who will catch a bouquet of the bride. It is quite acceptable if during the dance this man slowly puts a bridal garter on the woman. Also, the young groom can throw a friend not a garter, but some kind of a flower from an unorthodox bouquet.

Lovely girl, a little advice for you. The garter should be chosen in tone of the dress. It should be in harmony with stockings and shoes. As a rule, it is white or red. It is possible to decorate it with bows, lace or rhinestones. The main thing that it looked good on your leg and did not get out of the general style of clothes.

So we figured out the question of why we need a garter for the bride. It's just a wedding tradition, which, like any other, can be observed, or you can abandon it.