Can You Guess Your Most Important Wedding Accessory?

Wedding Accessory - choices

Probably the most glamorous Wedding Accessory is the tiara that transforms a bride into a princess. The difference it makes is amazing, though to many it is slightly over the top. However, if you feel it would suit you, then go for it. You might only have the one chance to wear a tiara.

Other hair adornments being worn as a Wedding Accessory are crystals or real jewels set into thin silver or gold bands, with a choker round the neck. Single pearl hair pins are also popular, though pearl necklaces seem to be taking the back stage at the moment, unless they are old and were worn by grandmother at her wedding. The ‘something old’ that will be discussed later.

Wedding Accessory - jewelry

Other jewelry currently being worn as a Wedding Accessory are silver and gold chains with diamond set crosses and other forms of necklaces which are very popular with brides at the moment, especially with off the shoulder or strapless gowns. Jewelry for brides does not have to be expensive however, and there is generally something available for everybody. You can get very affordable rhinestone jewelry and various forms of costume jewelry are also very popular. There are plenty outlets online, though if you want to see your adornments in the flesh first, shopping malls are a good place to find shops specializing in accessories.

It is good idea to try something live to see how it goes with the rest of your ensemble, whether it is to go with your wedding gown, or for afterwards as you leave for your honeymoon. Once you have chosen what you want, you will then likely find yourWedding Accessory online and be able to compare prices. This is true of practically any accessory.

Wedding Accessory - purse

The next most important Wedding Accessory for a new bride is likely her evening bag and its contents! This should be large enough to hold everything she needs to repair the ravages of the day, but small and light enough to look elegant and in vogue. Although a Louis Vuitton Monogram or Cerises handbag would be ideal, we cannot all stretch our finances that far, especially after all the other essential expenses of a wedding, but there are many alternative available (not to mention the replica Chinese Louis Vuitton look-alikes).

If you are having a fall or winter wedding, a wrap or shawl is also a likely necessity to keep the wind away from your hair and shoulders. A nice shawl with a bolero jacket would look fabulous, though equally popular are embroidered ponchos with a velvet stole to keep the shoulders and neck warm as a Wedding Accessory.

Wedding Accessory - tradition

A Wedding Accessory, however, is the “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue”. The old represents the bride maintaining a link with her own family, from days when the bride left the family, frequently forever. It represents continuity, and this accessory should be something that belonged to bride’s mother or grandmother such as a piece of jewelry, a lace handkerchief or even something worn by her mother at her own wedding.

The new represents good luck for the future for the bride in her new life, and need not specifically be a Wedding Accessory, but the wedding gown or the ring. Anything will do as long as it is new and not second hand or antique. The ‘borrowed’ represents to the bride that her own family and friends will there for her if needed. This can be anything from a friend’s apartment in the Seychelles for the honeymoon to a piece of jewelry special to the person lending it. It is important tradition that the item is lent by a happily married woman, to pass on some of that happiness to the new bride.

Wedding Accessory - ideas

The final traditional Wedding Accessory is the something ‘blue’. Blue represents fidelity and loyalty, and is traditionally a garter. There is nothing to beat a luxurious blue matte satin garter embellished with a beautiful bow, and perhaps even a horseshoe charm, to make you feel a million dollars. The horseshoe, of course, is another accessory that you must not forget to have somewhere on your person. It also represents luck, as long as it is always held the right way up to retain the luck within the curve of the shoe. Turn it the other way up, and your ‘luck will run out’. Hence the saying.

However, your most important Wedding Accessory is none of these. It is the massive smile on your face and the handsome groom on your arm. With all of that the world is your oyster.










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