I'm not sure, my MIL thrust one into my hands after the wedding ceremony, on my first wedding a friend who came from the mainland gave me one.

I found this....

So how exactly are horseshoes incorporated into the average wedding day? Well, traditionally the bride would be presented with a decorated horseshoe by the female members of the family, particularly children. Having a child hand over the horseshoe to the bride is said to ensure her fertility, which would have been extremely important to the newlyweds back in the Victorian era. The bride should then carry the horseshoes with her bouquet for the formal photos, and should ensure that the horseshoes are displayed, along with the bouquet, for the rest of the celebration so that everyone can admire them.

I have seen some where bridesmaids or pageboys carry them down the aisle and then the bride had it later on for pictures.

Personally if anyone does get me one I will have it for some pictures but I'm so clumsy I'm focusing on not dropping my flowers lol

I know Debbie's Mum is giving her the horseshoe she carried when she married (her something borrowed) but from what I understand, it's a good luck token for the mothers and female members of the family :)

please make sure that all of you have the horseshoe the right way up ....


it should be strung from the two points and kept this way up , this is to ensure the good luck doesn't run out

I was talking to my mum about it and she has said its usually females that give it to the bride, don't know if ill bother getting one for my ds to give to us.

I wouldn't have bought it myself my mum would have done it. It was more about my ds giving us one IF thats what would normally happen so that he would be first but im not going to bother now.

Ty :-)