How to Carry your Wedding Bouquet

"Knowing how to handle your bouquet makes you seem at ease, and lets the flowers do their job — namely, draw the eye to your stunning poise and confidence."
You poured over the designs of those one-in-a-lifetime flowers for months, coordinating them with your venue and bridesmaid attire. Make the most of them by practicing with a Rehearsal Bouquet! Carrying your bouquet correctly lets the world revel in the results, instead of subconsciously noting that you're clutching the bouquet to your body like a football, or thrusting it out like it poses a fire hazard.
Practicing with Rehearsal Bouquets will make you look and feel at ease with your floral bouquets.
• Make sure that your bridal and attendants' bouquets aren't so heavy that you really can't hold them comfortably for twenty minutes or longer.
• Hold your bouquet around belly button height. Rest your hands snug against your stomach (which offers you support in holding the flowers ... and hides any shaking hands!).
• Hold the blooms toward your guests, not the stems. No one wants to see those stems, no matter how beautifully they're wrapped.
• If you're carrying a sheaf of flowers, let them rest in the crook of your left arm like a baby. Borrow a good friend's baby (or a solid pillow) and practice a bit. Scan old movies with pageant winners.
• If you're carrying a pomander or kissing ball suspended from a ribbon on your wrist, fold that arm across your waist so that the ball hangs down the front of your gown.
• A nosegay or tussy-mussy is a smaller, lighter bouquet. Hold it at belly button level if it's large enough, or simply at waist level.