How To Choose A Wedding Garter

Hello, I'm Ellie and I'm Charlotte, and we run a bridal boutique in Southwest London called Ellie and Charlotte. We've been making wedding dresses for the last ten years and we are going to show you some of our top tips on finding your perfect dress and accessorizing. In this video, I am going to talk to you about how to choose your garter.

There are different fabrics, you can have different detailing whether it's a blue ribbbon or a white ribbon or if you want a specific color, and sometimes, you can have the sixpence in it as well. It's a really traditional part of the day but you do have to consider what your wedding dress is like to whether you can actually wear one or if you just pop it on at a certain point in the ceremony. If your wearing a more traditional A-line structure dress, you can pop the garter on from the beginning of the day since you won't be able to see it.

If you go for a more fluid, simple dress and you do still want the tradition of a garter, you may have to pop it on after the ceremony just for the photo novelty because otherwise you will see it under the dress. Traditionally, they do sit on the top of the thigh, and everyone likes to have a sneaky peak at the garter after you've been married. However, we have done it before where brides that do wear more slinky dresses do wear it slightly lower just for the ceremony so it's there, but then, move it up for the photos.

They are a good fun thing to have and all the boys like looking at them. It can be something blue and something borrowed, so it's always worth asking your friend or even your mom to see if they still have their wedding garter. It's a really lovely thing to pass on.

So think about your wedding dress and your style of it, to see if you can wear a garter on your wedding day. And this is how you choose your wedding garter. .