Wedding Trends That Take The Cake

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Why do traditional brides wear white? Why do father’s typically “give away” their daughters? And why do brides and grooms save part of their wedding cake? These questions and several others are smartly answered in an article for mental_floss magazine written by Jenn Thompson, titled Bizarre origins of wedding traditions.

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A few of our favs from the article:

If you find these tidbits interesting, be sure to read the article. You’ll love Jenn Thompson’s tongue-in-cheek historical look at wedding traditions!

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Lisa Bakewell

There are a lot of superstitions related to the bride on her wedding day. Probably the most popular are that the bride should not allow her groom to see her in her wedding dress until the wedding, and that a bride should always have “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue” as she makes her way down the aisle. Others include:

• The bride should never make her own dress.
• An old veil is luckier than a new one (especially if it’s borrowed from a happily married women or it’s a family heirloom).
• When leaving her home to go to the wedding, the bride should exit from the front door and lead with her right foot.
• Sunshine, rainbows, black cats, lambs, doves, toads, spiders and chimney sweeps are considered lucky to the bride on her wedding day.
• Saving part of the wedding cake for the first anniversary of the wedding will keep the bride’s husband faithful.
• It is lucky for the bride to be wakened by a singing bird on her wedding day.
• It is lucky to find a spider in the fold of the brides wedding gown.
• It is bad luck for a bride to break anything–especially a mirror–on her wedding day.
• It is bad luck to lose the heal of a shoe on the wedding morning.
• It is bad luck for the bride to cry before the wedding.
• Coming in contact with a funeral party on the way to the church is bad luck.
• If a pig crosses the road in front of the car on the way to the wedding, it’s considered bad luck.
• With each glance in the mirror, a bride is supposed to add something to her makeup or clothing.

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Lisa Bakewell