Bride, be beautiful A traditional Irish bride doesn't spend a fortune on bouquets f exotic flowers. Instead, she usually wears a wreath of wild rflowers in her hair, freshly picked on the morning of her wedding. She carries more wild flowers in her hands, as well as a 'magic' handkerchief and a horseshoe for luck. Part of the bride's wedding dress is used to make the christening usually robe for the first-born child.