Order, rules and coordination are the basic ingredients for a perfect and noteworthy bridal entrance into the church.
How to give the right importance to this symbolic moment.
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The long-awaited day has arrived, there is great excitement in the newlyweds’ house, parents, relatives, witnesses and friends are in trepidation. Everyone is waiting to see the bride and groom’s outfit. No offence to the men, but you know, the main attention always falls on the bride’s dress, its details and accessories, starting from the hairstyle, make-up, jewelry, bouquet and ending with the shoes.
About bouquets discover an alternative idea to the classic bouquet toss. You will entertain and involve not only your friends but also your guests.
BRIDE’S ENTRY INTO CHURCH: The ceremony and wedding procession
As per American tradition and in most cases also in Italy, the bride will be the last to arrive and will enter the church when all the guests are seated inside.
The mother of the bride and the father of the groom will welcome the guests outside, before the bride arrives. The couple’s friends will invite all the guests to take their seats.
Even in this case, however, I recommend that you plan for a plan B, because even if everything has been planned and decided down to the smallest detail (do this even if you don’t have a wedding planner) a last-minute inconvenience always happens, for example the grandmother of the bride, or friends and relatives who refuse to enter because they want to see the bride arrive.
In this case, avoid arguing and let them welcome the bride outside the church, they will enter after seeing her. Only when everyone has entered, the solo entrance into the church will begin.
Before the bride arrives, the groom accompanied by his mother will make his entrance and wait for the bride in the church. The bride will then be preceded by the page boys, behind her there will be the bridesmaids to hold her veil.
In case of absence or impossibility of the parents to attend the ceremony, the spouses themselves will decide with whom to make their entrance.
BRIDE’S ARRIVAL IN CHURCH
The driver, getting as close as possible to the entrance of the church/ceremony, will open the car door for the father of the bride, who, in turn, will open it for the bride and help her out of the car. Dear brides, you are allowed a maximum delay of 10/15 minutes.
ENTRANCE POSITIONS, SEATING FOR BRIDE AND GROOM, PARENTS AND GUESTS
The groom will enter the church giving his right arm to his mother.
The groom with his parents, witnesses, relatives and friends will sit on the right.
The bride will enter the church standing on the left of her father.
The bride and her parents, witnesses, relatives and friends will sit on the left.
BRIDE’S ENTRY INTO CHURCH: How to Hold the Bouquet
If you want to make the perfect bridal entrance into the church, keep this advice in mind.
Don’t ruin a year of rehearsals and fine-tuning with inappropriate gestures, dictated by emotion.
Hold the bouquet below the navel, in the center or to the side, resting it against you.
Never bend your elbow at 90 degrees, do not wave the bouquet as if it were a microphone, never move it away from you, do not bring it to face height.
The bouquet is an integral part of your figure, it is one with you, you will understand it when you see yourself in the photos. Take note immediately and remember this small but huge detail that will make the difference.
At that moment the excitement will be so great and you will remember this detail, only if you have taken note and done the rehearsals at home. The gestures and rehearsals of the previous months will serve to remind you in that crucial moment of sky-high emotion, to maintain the correct position.
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BRIDE’S ENTRY INTO CHURCH: Bridesmaids and Pageboys
A bit like in the American tradition, even brides in Italy dream of having page boys and bridesmaids. Know that even in this case you have to follow the rules of etiquette and good taste, I dare say. Etiquette requires that the bride’s family provides everyone’s outfits. Seeing homogeneity and coordination between outfits and accessories is a good thing, you will be thrilled admiring the photos. Avoid deep necklines and bright colors, even total white if the bride is dressed in white. The rule of organization always wins, talk to your bridesmaids and the children’s parents.
A TIP THAT MY COUPLE MUCH APPRECIATED
A small detail of bad taste, which in my opinion ruined the magical atmosphere of this moment, was seeing the guests, during the bride’s entrance into the church, use and stare at the phone trying to immortalize this moment, leaving the bride alone.
I didn’t notice this during the celebration but looking at the photos and the video the days after. It was crazy how the eye fell on that wall of cell phones that covered the guests, some of them even with the tablet.
Why not look into the bride’s eyes, seek her gaze and share with her the emotion of this magical moment. After years I proposed to my couples to prohibit their guests from using their cell phones during the ceremony. Never was a proposal so welcomed, shared and appreciated by everyone.
The photo and video operators are working to immortalize these moments that they will give to the spouses and that they in turn, will offer to all the guests, a few days before the wedding. The guests will be able to relive the emotion of that moment only if they have experienced it first hand, not through a screen. To relive the emotions you have to have lived and experienced them first hand.
Leave your phone in your pocket and fully experience all the highlights of the ceremony and the promises of the bride and groom. You can relive everything thanks to the professional material that the bride and groom will give you.
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