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I don't know if I believe in them but I do love figuring out where they came from! I'd love to hear more.
I once read that it was bad luck if the bride wore green because (apparently) back in the day it mean she had been rolling around with someone else! (And gotten grass stains) Not sure I believe that one...
In Italian traditions it is good luck for the groom to tear the veil because it means he is very passionate about his bride... I don't think I'd want Mr. A to rip mine in half, but a little tear for tradition might be fun/cute.
I'd love to hear more!
I find these sorts of things interesting. I agree it'd be neat to find out where they all came from.
But now I'm curious: does this mean if we're looking at rings, dresses, magazines, the Bee, etc BEFORE we get engaged, that we're "counting our chickens before they hatch" or "putting the cart before the horse"?
Hopefully not, otherwise I'm doomed! Haha :)
If the groom drops the wedding band during the ceremony, the marriage is doomed.
The new bride must enter her home by the main door, and must not trip or fall. This is origin of 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.
June is the best month to get married. Romans believed that Juno, their goddess of woman, blessed marriages that took place in her month.
In the olden days, when a wife was considered a possession, a wedding ring was a sign that the woman had been purchased by the groom.
Marry on the upswing of the clock, basically on the half-hour, like 2:30 instead of 2, or 3, because that way the hands of the clock are on their way up, not down
June is the bmarried. Romans believed that Juno, their goddess of woman, blessed marriages that took place in her month.
Nope! Although I understand people do them for fun, I did the something old / new / borrowed / blue.
@Dolcebabe: I have never heard the rail crossing one, what on earth is that about?? Also how does it work of you're driving a manual car??
@aardvark: "I once read that it was bad luck if the bride wore green because (apparently) back in the day it mean she had been rolling around with someone else! (And gotten grass stains) Not sure I believe that one..."
lol, i LOVE IT!
@authentic: I did read somewhere that a lady in waiting writing her name with her potential husbands last name before they wed is bad luck and tempting fate... I used to always doodle my 'future signature' ...opps lol
I have tons of superstitions but very few wedding related ones... I think I need to lower the number of layers in my cake now though... lol we have a 4 layer cake and I definitely don't want more than 1 more baby... tehe
@Dolcebabe: good to know about June weddings and I'm glad were getting married at 5:30 =D
These are a lot of fun actually!
@Showers: haha.. yes it would be tricky lifting you feet driving a manual car! I usally only do it if Im a passanger. It is suppose to be bad luck to cross a railway by foot rather than rail..or something of a such..
@Dolcebabe: but...unless the marriage ends in divorce, doesn't every marriage end with one spouse dying? lol.
In real life I'm not superstitious but I am a reforming sports supertitious person. I used to have to either watch an entire game or my team would lose, or I wouldn't talk about them on my blog or they'd lose, or if they won while I sat in a specific seat, then I'll keep sitting there until they lost. At one point I banned my sister from watching games with me. LOL.
But I don't believe that anymore. Thank goodness because it was limiting!
And if each tier represents the number of kids you will have, my goodness, what would that mean for those of us who are having cupcakes?! I refuse to birth that many kids.
I heard a few superstitions about rings:
- A solitary diamond on your engagement ring is supposed to symbolise a solitary life. I asked for a 3-stone because of this, LOL.
- My mom had heard that if the metal on your wedding band wore thin, the passion/romance would wear thin also, so her wedding band practically went up to her knuckle!
@Dolcebabe: I think I would scream if I find a spider in my wedding dress. And I would hate to imagine the reaction of my best friend, the arachnophobic, if that ever happens to her.
Now I understand the concept of Hune being a favourable month for marriage as it was named after Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage and the queen consort of Jupiter. But it always amuses me to no end since Juno and Jupiter are essentially Hera and Zeus - and those two had FAR from an ideal marriage. Aside from the being siblings, a number of the demi-gods and heroes from Greek and Roman mythology were the result of Zeus' extramarital affairs.
These superstitious rules are outdated, and they vary across the world so it would be hard to abide by ALL of them :)
If that were the case every marriage would be doomed!
I can be a little superstitious about things like knocking on wood, I completely believe that one and will even make other people knock on wood. I am also a sports superstitious person in a way. I believe different little things I do impact what is happening in a game, sad but true. Also I have both a home and away jersey for my favorite player and I have to wear the correct one so he will do well. And I have lucky socks!
I'm really not superstitious, but I am, if that makes any sense. I won't die if I don't get to touch wood, I'm wishy-washy about tossing salt over my shoulder, and I've never lifted my feet over a railroad crossing (because I didn't know that one). I'm usually the person telling people that they should do x, because it's superstition, and here's why... (yup, i'm the know-it-all)
I did have a bit of a spaz when FI's mom wanted to try on my shiny. I (semi-jokingly) told her if anything bad happened between FI and I, it was now going to be her fault.
What I think would be a very cool favor, is to make mini-books of wedding/engagement/relationship superstitions/traditions, why they exist, and why we followed them or not.
No, I'm not superstitious at all. How do you even keep up with this stuff? Who tells you about it? I remember hearing about ladders and black cats as a kid. Not walking under a ladder seems like common sense, since the person on the ladder could drop something. I didn't understand how you would prevent a black cat from crossing your path if you happened to see a black cat outdoors.
Where does this stuff come from?
I would love to know what "knock on wood" is supposed to do. People joke about it, but it seems silly.
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I have always been very superstitious person... once you beleive in superstitions they always follow you. I always have to lift my feet while driving over a rail crossing, knock on wood not to jinx anything, itchy palm you'll recieve money.. there are too many to list. My SO is always making fun of me for my quirky ways.
since engagment and weddings have been on my brain, I was reading into wedding superstitions. There are so many of them!
its bad luck for the groom to see his bride the eve before the wedding.
The groom should give a coin to the first person he see's on his way to the church for good luck.
~ It was once said that the bride should never make her own dress and should wait to have the last stitch sewn until just before she entered the church.
~ It was also a popular tradition that the bride should not try on her complete wedding outfit before the wedding day or, it was felt, she would be "counting her chickens before they hatched."
~ Cutting the wedding cake together, symbolizes the couple's unity, a shared future, and their life together as one. The groom traditionally places his hand over the bride's hand as a symbol of his desire to take care of her... plus, it is good luck if the bride's hand is the first to cut the cake.
According to one long-forgotten tradition, the bottom layer of a wedding cake represents the couple as a family, and the top layer represents them as a pair. Each layer in between, represents a child you hope to have.
even 'something old, something new.something borrowed, something blue comes from a superstition.
and these are just a few...I think almost every aspect of engagment-wedding has superstitions attached to it...
do you bee's beleive in stuff like this?