About That Bridal Bouquet...

There are some wedding ceremonies that are witnessed by more than one hundred guests or so. And some again are so private that only a chosen few are invited.

So say you do find yourself being one of those chosen invitees, and everything goes well at the ceremony, the bride and groom exchange vows and everyone congratulates them afterward.

But say there are not enough single young women in the group for the bride to hurl her bridal bouquet at, so for it not to seem too obvious, she, the newly wedded individual, hands that bouquet to you saying, can you hold this for a second.

And not thnking anything much of it at the time, you do end up holding it, then the longer the bouquet stays within your grasp, you start to wonder about what may have just transpired.

Is your close friend or relative trying to indicate that the next wedding she wants to attend should be yours? Or did she simply want you to hang on to it while she posed for those wedding photos.

According to tradition and a bit of superstition, the single woman who catches the bridal bouquet after the ceremony, is the next person who will most likely be married. Of course marriage may not have come to all those women who have caught that significant bouquet, but it has come to most who have managed to have that bouquet in their hands after the wedded bride hurls it at the group.

Then as you settle in for the evening, long after the wedding festivities are over, the thought of holding that bridal bouquet returns to you and so do thoughts of your life so far.

For you may start thinking that maybe it is time you began to seriously ponder about that confirmation into adulthood, marriage. And the more you think about the matter, the longer you stay awake.

And as you dwell on the matter you end up thinking about such things as your present age, your job/career, whether or not you would like to add a copy of yourself to the world, and although finding a suitable date is not that difficult, you are still single.

Did your newly married friend or relative give you an inadvertent wake up call? For you were not entertaining these types of thoughts prior to the event of holding your friend's or relative's bridal bouquet.

For a little change has taken place within you, that bridal bouquet has motivated you into thinking about something you have not even considered before; marriage.

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