Some brides very much would like to keep a wedding bouquet after a celebration. It is not forbidden by any traditions. On the contrary, was always considered that the wedding bouquet stores the world and rest in the house.
Whether it is necessary to store a wedding bouquet?
The wedding bouquet is indispensable attribute of the bride. Therefore there is nothing strange in desire to keep it and after the wedding. The truth does not exist any certain traditions ordering what to do with a bouquet after the wedding. For example, in the nineteenth century some romantically the adjusted girls began to sew up the dried bouquets in a pillow and to store in a chest together with an elegant dress.
However from the West the interesting tradition of "throwing of a bridal bouquet" came to crowd of unmarried girls. And in that case the question already became not really relevant, usually the lucky woman who caught it gets a bouquet. The truth is a hole also here – the bride throws a reserve bouquet into crowd.
Perhaps, very few people know that the wedding bouquet is a symbol of love of the husband. It is considered that its preservation is capable to keep also love of the spouse for the rest of life. But similar beliefs are followed by not everyone. Some just store a beautiful bouquet because it is a pity to leave it.
Ways of storage of a bouquet after the wedding
After the wedding the bouquet should be papered and put to dry in the dark place for a period of one up to four weeks. However, some bouquets do not dry even in a month. Then it is necessary to wait still some time. Here a lot of things depend on of what bouquets they are made. It is necessary to hang up it for drying heads down. Of course, there will be not all flowers. For example, roses very quickly wither, but the composition can just be exempted from faded buds. After drying the bouquet can be put accurately in a vase or to hang up in a frame on a wall. Also perhaps separately to dry up only heads of flowers. For this purpose they will be required to be separated from stalks and to put in the dark and dry place. Gradually heads will come out all moisture. Then they can be shifted about a small box and to sprinkle a little favourite spirits which you used on a gala day. Periodically looking in this box, you will get positive emotions from pleasant wedding memories. Some just preserve a wedding bouquet by means of usual hairspray. To Saz after the wedding celebration on a bouquet spray a significant amount of varnish and hang up head over heels. Lach creates a protective film around petals at once. The initial form of buds at the same time remains for a long time.