{"id":1760,"date":"2010-12-23T15:47:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1760"},"modified":"2010-12-23T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T15:47:04","slug":"traditional-superstitous-facts-about-weddings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/traditional-superstitous-facts-about-weddings\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional & Superstitous Facts About Weddings…."},"content":{"rendered":"

Came across this and thought I’d share it for a fun read.\u00a0 Here is a really fun list of traditional and superstitions for weddings from theknot.com.<\/p>\n

Good Luck and Bad Luck<\/strong>
\n1. Hey, brides, tuck a sugar cube into your glove \u2014 according to Greek culture, the sugar will sweeten your union.
\n2. The English believe a spider found in a wedding dress means good luck. Yikes!
\n3. In English tradition, Wednesday is considered the \u201cbest day\u201d to marry, although Monday is for wealth and Tuesday is for health.
\n4. The groom carries the bride across the threshold to bravely protect her from evil spirits lurking below.
\n5. Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day, according to English folklore. Funny \u2014 it\u2019s the most popular day of the week to marry!
\n6. Ancient Romans studied pig entrails to determine the luckiest time to marry.
\n7. Rain on your wedding day is actually considered good luck, according to Hindu tradition!
\n8. For good luck, Egyptian women pinch the bride on her wedding day. Ouch!
\n9. Middle Eastern brides paint henna on their hands and feet to protect themselves from the evil eye. Find out about Muslim wedding rituals.
\n10. Peas are thrown at Czech newlyweds instead of rice.
\n11. A Swedish bride puts a silver coin from her father and a gold coin from her mother in each shoe to ensure that she\u2019ll never do without. Learn more about Swedish wedding traditions.
\n12. A Finnish bride traditionally went door-to-door collecting gifts in a pillowcase, accompanied by an older married man who represented long marriage.
\n13. Moroccan women take a milk bath to purify themselves before their wedding ceremony. See more Moroccan wedding customs.
\n14. In Holland, a pine tree is planted outside the newlyweds\u2019 home as a symbol of fertility and luck.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Got a Ring To It<\/strong>
\n15. Engagement and wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because it was once thought that a vein in that finger led directly to the heart.
\n16. About 70% of all brides sport the traditional diamond on the fourth finger of their left hand.
\n17. Priscilla Presley\u2019s engagement ring was a whopping 3 1\/2-carat rock surrounded by a detachable row of smaller diamonds.
\n18. Diamonds set in gold or silver became popular as betrothal rings among wealthy Venetians toward the end of the fifteenth century.
\n19. In the symbolic language of jewels, a sapphire in a wedding ring means marital happiness.
\n20. A pearl engagement ring is said to be bad luck because its shape echoes that of a tear.
\n21. One of history\u2019s earliest engagement rings was given to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. She was two years old at the time.
\n22. Seventeen tons of gold are made into wedding rings each year in the United States!
\n23. Snake rings dotted with ruby eyes were popular wedding bands in Victorian England \u2014 the coils winding into a circle symbolized eternity.
\n24. Aquamarine represents marital harmony and is said to ensure a long, happy marriage.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Fashionable Lore<\/strong>
\n25. Queen Victoria started the Western world\u2019s white wedding dress trend in 1840 \u2014 before then, brides simply wore their best dress.
\n26. In Asia, wearing robes with embroidered cranes symbolizes fidelity for the length of a marriage.
\n27. Ancient Greeks and Romans thought the veil protected the bride from evil spirits. Brides have worn veils ever since.
\n28. On her wedding day, Grace Kelly wore a dress with a bodice made from beautiful 125-year-old lace.
\n29. Of course, Jackie Kennedy\u2019s bridesmaids were far from frumpy. She chose pink silk faille and red satin gowns created by African-American designer Ann Lowe (also the creator of Jackie\u2019s dress).
\n30. In Japan, white was always the color of choice for bridal ensembles \u2014 long before Queen Victoria popularized it in the Western world.
\n31. Most expensive wedding ever? The marriage of Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum\u2019s son to Princess Salama in Dubai in May 1981. The price tag? $44 million.
\n32. In Korea, brides don bright hues of red and yellow to take their vows.
\n33. Brides carry or wear \u201csomething old\u201d on their wedding day to symbolize continuity with the past.
\n34. In Denmark, brides and grooms traditionally cross-dressed to confuse evil spirits!
\n35. The \u201csomething blue\u201d in a bridal ensemble symbolizes purity, fidelity, and love.
\nFood and Family
\n36. In Egypt, the bride\u2019s family traditionally does all the cooking for a week after the wedding, so the couple can\u2026relax.
\n37. In South Africa, the parents of both bride and groom traditionally carried fire from their hearths to light a new fire in the newlyweds\u2019 hearth.
\n38. The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, where revelers broke a loaf of bread over a bride\u2019s head for fertility\u2019s sake.
\n39. The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.
\n40. Queen Victoria\u2019s wedding cake weighed a whopping 300 pounds.
\n41. Legend says single women will dream of their future husbands if they sleep with a slice of groom\u2019s cake under their pillows.
\n42. An old wives\u2019 tale: If the younger of two sisters marries first, the older sister must dance barefoot at the wedding or risk never landing a husband.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Show Off at a Cocktail Party<\/strong>
\n43. In many cultures around the world \u2014 including Celtic, Hindu and Egyptian weddings \u2014 the hands of a bride and groom are literally tied together to demonstrate the couple\u2019s commitment to each other and their new bond as a married couple (giving us the popular phrase \u201ctying the knot\u201d).
\n44. The Roman goddess Juno rules over marriage, the hearth, and childbirth, hence the popularity of June weddings.
\n45. Princess Victoria established the tradition of playing Wagner\u2019s \u201cBridal Chorus\u201d during her wedding processional in 1858.
\n46. The bride stands to the groom\u2019s left during a Christian ceremony, because in bygone days the groom needed his right hand free to fight off other suitors.
\n47. On average, 7,000 couples marry each day in the United States.
\n48. Valentine\u2019s Day and New Year\u2019s Eve are the two busiest \u201cmarriage\u201d days in Las Vegas \u2014 elopement central!
\n49. The Catholic tradition of \u201cposting the banns\u201d to announce a marriage originated as a way to ensure the bride and groom were not related.
\n50. Stag parties were first held by ancient Spartan soldiers, who kissed their bachelor days goodbye with a raucous party.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Came across this and thought I’d share it for a fun read.\u00a0 Here is a really fun list of traditional and superstitions for weddings from theknot.com. Good Luck and Bad Luck 1. Hey, brides, tuck a sugar cube into your glove \u2014 according to Greek culture, the sugar will sweeten your union. 2. The English...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pp_embeds":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279,392,293,390,391,299,393,395,348,349,394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teresasweetphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}