Handbags Wedding Style

One of my good friends is getting married this August. She is so not a bridezilla! Anyway, she is trying to decide if she should carry a purse or not being that she will be holding a bouquet of flowers and it will be hard to keep track of a purse during such a busy day. I kind of agree with her about the keeping track part because there are so many things a bride is doing that a purse would just get in the way. But how does the bride carry her lip gloss to retouch, mints to keep her breath fresh for all the kissing and a compact mirror to make sure she doesn't have food in her teeth.

Most brides carry a dainty drawsting bag she wears around her wrist to stuff all those heavy envelopes in, but my bride friend doesn't want it dangling from her wrist all night. So she decided to go with a purse that had a strap and she would wear it across her chest sort of like a messenger bag. I didn't quite get it because I never saw it done so I wasn't quite sure how it would look. However, there were tons of selections she was able to choose from other than the norm. She picked something like this:

I thought it had the right idea fitting those bare necessities while not being too much in the way. When my wedding day comes, I'll be sure to keep this style in mind.