th her bouquet to the head bridesmaid to hold.

The invited guests should sit in the pews or chairs.

Guests seldom take their prayer-books with them to the church to follow
the service therefrom. The hymns sung are usually printed on leaflets,
and placed in the pews or on the seats.

The bridegroom generally wears a flower in his button-hole, as he does
not wear a wedding favour.

The other gentlemen may, as a matter of course, wear button-hole
bouquets, if they please.

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=When the Service is concluded=, the bride should take the bridegroom's
left arm, and, preceded by the officiating clergyman, and followed by
her head bridesmaids, father, mother, and the most distinguished of the
guests, should enter the vestry, where the register should be signed by
the bride and bridegroom, two or three of the nearest relatives, and by
two or three of the most intimate of the friends, and principal of the
guests, including the best man and the head bridesmaid. The bride's
father should sign it, but it is optional whether the bride's mother
does so or not.

When the register has been signed, and those in the vestry have shaken
hands with the bride and offered their congratulations, the bride should
take the bridegroom's left arm and pass down the nave of the church
followed by her bridesmaids, in the same order as they have previously
passed up the nave.

The bride and bridegroom usually leave the church without pausing to
shake hands with many of their friends present if a reception is to
follow.

When the bride and bridegroom have driven off from the church, the
bride's mother should be the next to follow, that she may be at home to
receive the guests as they arrive. There is no precedence as to the
order in which the remainder of the company leave the church; it
entirely depends on the cleverness of their servants in getting up their
motor-cars.

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=Button-hole Bouquets= of natural flowers have entirely superseded the
old-fashioned wedding favours for both ladies and gentlemen, and are
sometimes offered to the guests before they leave their seats at the
conclusion of the ceremony, but not invariably so. Button-hole bouquets
should be worn on the left side, by both ladies and gentlemen.

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=A Bride who is a Widow= should not wear a bridal veil, nor a wreath of
orange-blossoms, nor orange-blossom