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| British Wedding Customs | After the Ceremony:
Afterward, guests file out to throw flower petals, confetti, birdseed, or rice over the newly-married couple for good luck.
 After the ceremony the bride and groom dance their first dance, traditionally it must be waltz, but nowadays the couple often chooses their favorite music or a song. Weddings traditionally are at noon; afterward, there is a seated luncheon, called a wedding breakfast. The traditional wedding cake usually is a fruit cake, and on the top of the cake should be the figure of cake toppers. Traditionally they are the figures of the bride and groom. The couple cuts the cake together; they believe that it’s for luck. A portion is usually stored, and eaten by the couple at their first wedding anniversary, or at the christening of their first child.
As usual the bride may throw her bouquet to the group of unmarried women. Who catches it will be the next to wed. The same tradition among the groom and unmarried men. But the groom throws the bride’s garter.
The husband should carry his wife into their home. This is called carrying the bride over the threshold.
The dance between the bride and her father is also traditional. Sometimes the groom will cut in halfway through the dance, in such way symbolizing the bride leaving her father and joining her new husband.
At some point the married couple may become the object of a charivari.it is a good-natured hazing of the newly-married couple. The most known it is to tie the different tin things or cans to the bumper of the couple's car.
The final tradition is the newly married couple to set off for their honeymoon.
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