Wedding Bouquet Alternative, the Decision, With a Little Complaining Thrown In

After the peacock feather fan non-decision I realized I was on a roll. I realized it wasn't the fan that my mother disliked, it was the the fact that it had feathers.

So I asked my cousin in the Philippines to pick up some beige fans for the bridesmaids, and I bought a pink one from Lands Faraway.

Here they are:



Truth be told, if I had to do it over again, I wouldn't have had the fans. Everyone would have just walked down the aisle carrying nothing. We hardly even used them! I left my fan on the altar and after the ceremony my mom took everything that was on the altar. My bridesmaid asked me if I wanted her to go get my mom so we could have the fans, and my response was "Why?" I didn't particularly want to have photos with them, and trying to get my mom would have been more trouble than it was worth.

What a silly tradition.

Apparently here is the origin:

The bridal bouquet had its earliest beginnings as a bunch of fragrant herbs who "job" it was to discourage evil spirits from getting close to the bride. It started not as a bouquet, but, with Greeks and Romans, as a garland of fresh herbs which the bride wore in her hair. In Victorian times, the flowers in a bride's bouquet carried messages, because each flower had its own special meaning.

Now, if you like flowers at your wedding and think they are pretty then I am not judging your decision, but after all the hassle, I should have really just said, why do I have to carry anything down the aisle?