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| Wedding Superstitions |
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| WEDDING DAY Certain days of week , and certain months of the year are better than others for wedding. * Monday for health. * Tuesday for wealth. * Wednesday best of all. * Thursday for losses. * Friday for crosses. * Saturday for no luck at all. Married when the year is new, he'll be loving , kind and true, When February birds do mate, You wed nor dead your fate. If you wed in March winds blow, joy and sorrow both you'll know. Marry in April when you can, Joy for Maiden & for Man. Marry in the month of May, and you will surely rue the day, Marry when June roses grow, over land and sea you will go. Those who in July do wed, must labour for their daily bred. Whoever wed in August, be many a change is sure to see. Marry in September's shrine, your living will be rich and fine. If in October you do marry, love will come but riches tarry. If you wed in bleak November, only joys will come, remember. When december snows fall fast, marry and true love will last. FOR A LUCKY BRIDE : Something old, Something new, Something borrowed, Something blue, And a lucky sixpence In her shoe. Married in White, you have chosen right Married in Grey, you will go far away, Married in Black, you will wish yourself back, Married in Red, you will wish yourself dead, Married in Green, ashamed to be seen, Married in Blue, you will always be true, Married in Pearl, you will live in whirl, Married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow, Married in Brown, you will live in the town, Married in Pink, you spirit will sink. WEDDING DAY : Good Omens * seeing a rainbow * having the sunshine * meeting a black cat * meeting a chimney sweep Bad Omens * a pig, hare, or lizard running across the road * seeing an open grave * meeting a nun or a monk foretell barrenness OTHER BELIEFS : If the groom drops the wedding band during the ceremony the marriage is doomed. The new bride must enter her home by teh main door, and must not trip or fall - hence the custom of carrying the bride over the threshold. the spouse who goes to sleep first on the wedding day will be the first to die. WEDDING CAKE : If a single woman sleep with a piece of wedding cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband. |
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| Wedding rings are a tradition that dates back to ancient times. As far as we know , primitive men and women did not have wedding ceremonies like we do today, but early grooms are believed to have had an interesting way of showing their intentions. A man would weave a special cord and tie it around the waist of the mat he wanted. the beliefwas that when he did that, her spirit entered his body and she was bound to him eternally. The ancient Egyptians were teh first people known to take their symbol for eternity , the circle , and use it to signify the marriage union. The placed a ring on the third finger of the left hand ( a tradition we still have today ) because tehy believed that the 'vein of love' ran directly from his finger to teh heart. These ancient rings were made of everything from leather to bone to metal. Gold wedding bands -- probably teh most popular type of wedding ring in the world today -- were once a sign of great prosperity. Wedding rings were also once used as part of a groom's bride payment in arranged marriages, and showed teh groom's noble intentions. In the medieval and Renaissance periods, royalty and the wealthy oftens gave wedding rings encrusted with different gems. the plain wedding band supposedly became popular when Gueen Marry I of England married King Phillip II of Spain in 1554. She insisted on a simple ring without any gems. |
| The Story Of The Wedding Ring |
| A Beatnik Wedding |
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| Long before there were 'Hippies' there were a somewhat like group of people called 'Beatniks' , who had a language and a culture all tehir own. at a wedding ceremony the preacher would ask the couple , 'Do you dig this bit?' If they nodded, he would proceed with the ceremony and ask the Bride, ' Chick, do you dig this cat?' She was expected to respond, ' Grazy Man!'. Then he would turn and aske the groom, 'Cat , do you love this fluff?' and he would respond 'Monstest!'. The Minister would then join their hands together and say, ' Make it, kids.' Then turn to the organist and say ' Beat me Mamma, eight to the bar.' as her cue to play the recessional. |
| Some Wedding Traditions |
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| Just in case you wanted to know where all teh traditions that surround the wedding day coem from , here issome information : In the Spirit of Tradition ... * the wedding shower originated with a Dutch maiden who fell in love with a impoverished miller. Her friends " showered " her and her groom with so many gifts that they could forego her missing dowry. * A 19th Century reason for wearing the wedding ring on the forth finger supposedly had a vein that led directly to teh heart. * Lucky is the bride who married an old shoe * Why 'something old ,something new , something borrowed, something blue?' The "Old" was usually a personal gift from mother to daughter , a symbolic piece of wisdom for married life . "something new" symbolized the new family formed by the couple . "Borrowing" is especially important , since it is to come from a happily married woman , thereby lending the bride some of her own marital bliss to carry into the new union. "Blue" has two traditions : Pagan Roman maidens wore blue on the borders of their robes to denote love , modesty and fidelity, while Christian associate it with the purity of the Virgin Mary. * A custom of carrying the bride over the threshold stems from the same belief that aroused the idea of runway carpet and strewing the aisle with flowers and petals. It was an anciet belief that the newly married couple was very susceptible to evil spirits. By carrying the bride and supplying a protective layer between the floor and bride, she would protected from the ground monster. * The bridal veil is descendant from who sources. A woman's face that was covered by a veil was used to disguise the bride so that she would not be recognized by the evil spirits wishing to harm the vulnerable bridal couple. * The Jewish Chuppa canopy offered a sanctuary from evil spirits. * The kiss that seals the wedding is much more than a sign of affection. It has long been a token of bonding - the exchange of spirits as each partner sends a part of the self into the new spouse's soul, there to bride ever after. * An old Scottish belief for good fortune : A bride should be met at the door after wedding ceremony by her mother , who must then break a currant bun over her daughter's head. * If a cat sneezes on the day before a wedding , the bride will be lucky in her marriage. * A young bride always wore her hair long and loose as a sign of her youth and innocence. * The Romance Empire gave us the start of the tradition wedding cake. In Rome a bride and groom could not be married until they ate of something together at the same time. In Rome, they used a loaf of bread for this. As the tradition carried across Europe to England the bread become a 3 or 4 tiered cake. * Many weddind traditions come from agriculture societies such as a bride crying on her wedding. Farmers would tell a bride that her tears on her wedding day were good luck and would eventually cause rain to fall for a good harvets. Another belief was that a bride who cried on her wedding day would never cry again about her marriage. |
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