11 wedding traditions of the royal family

I was never interested in the life of the British royal family, but Prince William's wedding day, Kate Middleton in April 2011, fascinated watching the broadcast of the celebration. The world was fascinated by the beauty of an old-fashioned royal wedding traditions. Now that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle going to show us another exquisite ceremony, a little hard not to present himself in the role she know anyone.

Here are a few old-fashioned wedding traditions of kings, which you can borrow for your celebration. Or fantasies about the triumph, which is not bad.

1. Long veil

To be more precise, infinitely long. Most royal brides selected elaborate massive cathedral veil whose length can be up to 3, 5 meters. Kate stepped back a little from this tradition - her veil was a little lower back. But bridesmaids still had something to bear - dress plume was about three meters long. Although Diana the princess, with its 25-meter loop until no one was able to get around.

2. Lucky Charm

The Royals are often included in your wedding dress amulet for good luck. For example, the bride can put sixpence in her shoe or a dress embroidered silver horseshoe. Kate sewn to the inside of the dress blue ribbon for happiness. Charming intimate tradition.

3. Two cake

In the royal wedding, as a rule, two cakes: fruit and some more. This is especially useful when you can not decide on dessert at his triumph. If you experience that the guests and one do not overpower, here's another royal wedding life hacking. By tradition, after the wedding, the couple sent to each guest a piece of cake as a thank you.

4. The flowers for a bouquet with a value of

When choosing a wedding bouquet the bride tend to focus on the color scale. The British royal family Flowers necessarily choose a value. Thus, the myrtle, the plant with a sweet smell, known as the herb of love, in every royal wedding bouquet from the time of the wedding ceremony of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in the mid-1800s. The bouquet Kate he is also, of course, was, and lilies of the valley, hyacinth, ivy and Turkish carnations. Royal bouquet is traditionally white. He gets no girlfriends - the bride should lay flowers on the grave of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey.

5. Several methods of guests

This is closer to our tradition to celebrate the wedding of two days, although the British tradition is substantially different. At the wedding of Kate and William are three guest list has been compiled. The most numerous included 1,900 people, all of them watched the wedding ceremony. Only 600 closest to the royal family of people were invited to a banquet at Buckingham Palace. Finally, 300 of them were the guests of the evening gala dinner organized by Prince William.

6. The wedding breakfast

If you have no desire to celebrate the wedding of two days, Borrow tradition of royal wedding breakfast. It begins at noon and can be an ideal time to chat with guests and receiving congratulations. In the evening you can relax and have a classic drunken party with close friends.

7. The white color

Royal Wedding - a combination of generosity and absolute conservatism. bride, bridal bouquet and even the bridesmaids dresses should be pure white. Now, there are many variations of the main dress every girl all styles and colors. But it is hard to think of something more perfect, elegant, wedding, than the white dress.

8. The arrival with a twist

Royal guests arrive to the place of marriage in a beautiful horse-drawn cortege. At the wedding of Kate and William, this tradition turned a little embarrassment - one of the horses, frightened by the crowd, kicked off the rider and galloped past the newlyweds during the return to Buckingham Palace after the wedding. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

There are other ways to make his spectacular arrival: include your favorite song to use bubbles or rose petals, that friends will overwhelm you. All that will feel special.

9. Wearing tiaras

The head of the royal bride crowns tiara with precious stones. You can pick up a more modest version - watch this decoration is luxurious in any way. In addition, the tiara will help to fix the veil, which often becomes a problem of the bride.

10. Many children

On most British weddings are many children - this is another royal tradition. Dressed in a cute little angels, they are usually happy and most of all create a very nice atmosphere. Although one such baby spoiled picture of the legendary kiss on the balcony of Kate Middleton and Prince William - next to the newlyweds was the girl with the sour face and stopped up their ears.

11. Women's hats

Royal wedding - is necessarily a parade of fancy women's hats, which can not be fully be called hats. One of the guests was limited to classical small cap, some of the ladies proudly carried on the heads of exotic architectural composition. In the course went feathers, flowers, veils - all to not stay at this festival without attention.