Tonight I finished up a project for the upcoming marriage of my dear friends Anna and Matt. Out of me and my two best friends Anna and Chelsea, I am always dubbed the uncreative one, but when I realized Chelsea left town without the ribbons and Elish was hours away in Baton Rouge, I did what I had to do. Take the ribbons and make the proxy bouquet.
I believe it is safe to say that every girl in the South (or at least in Mississippi) knows the purpose of a proxy bride bouquet and how it is made. But for the rest of the world... Weddings are a huge deal around here, especially for boys and girls in their twenties, and especially around college graduation time. In the weeks and months before the wedding, groups hold wedding showers for the bride (and groom, more recently than before). At the showers, the bride opens each gift and the bridesmaids typically make notes of who and what was given. They also collect each and every ribbon, which are used to make a bouquet. (No flowers, just ribbons.) The moment a bride walks down the aisle is too special to be rehearsed, so, instead, the bride appoints a proxy to practice walking down the aisle with her dad. [Def. of proxy: a person authorized to act on behalf of another (from Apple).] Ta-da: a proxy bouquet.
All of that to say, I, the uncreative one, volunteered to make a bouquet out of ribbon for a bride that has completed four and a half years of art school. Oh, for the love of a friend. With the help of the ever-creative Faeh, a bouquet was made over two weeks ago, but tonight I had doubts. So I pulled out the hot glue gun and created a second bouquet to allow Anna a choice. After all these years of being the uncreative one, I feel like I must prove myself. I can do art, grrr. So, we'll see how it goes. I'm definitely not promising any pictures at this point..
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