Traditions and Superstitions, I touched on these last
week and have since dug up some more interesting facts
or fantasies, whichever way you wish to believe.
Lets start with the Dressing Attire of the Bridal
Party…….
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If you lend out your wedding dress this means good
luck will come to the bride but unfortunately not to
the lender.
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The bride uses the veil to disguise her from any
lurking evil spirits.
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Having your bridesmaids all dressed up is mean’t to
fool the evil spirits as to which one is the bride.
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Best for the bride not to help in making her own
dress as this will bring bad luck.
Also the bride must be very careful not to
rip her dress on her wedding day as this means that
the marriage will end in death.
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However, it is considered good luck if the bride
finds a spider in her wedding gown…….. I am sure
most brides would see this differently
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Wearing a pearl on your wedding day will only result
in bad luck and tears throughout the day.
As if the bride hasn’t got enough to worry about in the
lead up to her wedding.
Not forgetting the Cake
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The bride and groom must ensure that they cut the
first slice of wedding cake together to ensure that
they will conceive.
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For the chief bridesmaid to be next up the aisle she
should keep a piece of cake in her pocket for the
duration of the couple's honeymoon.
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Single female guests should save a piece of wedding
cake for under their pillow and they will dream of
the man they will marry.
Now to a couple of well known traditions, the reasonings
behind what we do at weddings.…
At wedding an assortment of things can become airborn:
rice (for fertility), bouquets (for luck and
protection), and garters (also for luck).
As the story goes in the good old days people used to
rip off chunks of the wedding dress for good luck.
I couldn’t imagine this happening in this day and
age, what an up-roar that would be considering dresses
can cost thousands of dollars. However, long-ago
in England, a slightly related custom had friends of the
groom ripping off their socks and throwing them; the
first to hit the groom's nose would be the next to be
married.
Traditionally, bride stands on the left and groom on the
right. Weddings
in days gone by were similar to that of the soaps, take
Days of our Lives, at least one wedding a month, with
dastardly ex-suitors and thugs sometimes rushing the
altar. And of course the hero wedding crasher, just
trying to rescue a captured bride. Whatever the reason
for the interference, the groom needed to keep his right
hand free so he could grab his sword, thus the bride
stood clear and to the left.
Bad luck I guess if the groom is left-handed.
This weeks ZIP or ZAP
Remember to order that extra bouquet to throw at the
reception, don’t want to let the single savages run away
with yours.
Annie
Annie.
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