In case you hadn't noticed, a wedding is the high point of a female's life. They try to include as many females as possible to spread the glory around. And the flowers have nothing to do with body odors. Flowers are a symbol of femininity. I thought everybody knew that. Maybe not everybody looks.
if you mean how did the tradition start...it started for the same reason a bride carries a bouquet. people didnt always have indoor heated plumbing and so bathing was a difficult and long process, to gather the water and heat it for your bath, and then the order the family would bathe would be the patriarch of the family (the dad) down through the ages to the youngest son, then the mother and down through the ages to the youngest daughter and then the baby (also where we get the saying "dont throw the baby out with the bathwater" because by then the water was just filthy so it was hard to see through) between this process of having to share the water and how infrequently people bathed because of how difficult it was to people stank. to mask this during a wedding they had the bride carry a bouquet of flowers and follow flower girls who would fill the aisle with flower petals. the tradition still carries on even though the problem that started it has now been solved.
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In case you hadn't noticed, a wedding is the high point of a female's life. They try to include as many females as possible to spread the glory around. And the flowers have nothing to do with body odors. Flowers are a symbol of femininity. I thought everybody knew that. Maybe not everybody looks.
if you mean how did the tradition start...it started for the same reason a bride carries a bouquet. people didnt always have indoor heated plumbing and so bathing was a difficult and long process, to gather the water and heat it for your bath, and then the order the family would bathe would be the patriarch of the family (the dad) down through the ages to the youngest son, then the mother and down through the ages to the youngest daughter and then the baby (also where we get the saying "dont throw the baby out with the bathwater" because by then the water was just filthy so it was hard to see through) between this process of having to share the water and how infrequently people bathed because of how difficult it was to people stank. to mask this during a wedding they had the bride carry a bouquet of flowers and follow flower girls who would fill the aisle with flower petals. the tradition still carries on even though the problem that started it has now been solved.