Weddings have been around for what seems like forever! Along with them have come many traditions and superstitions. Here are some I found to add a little fun to your day. Whether you want to follow them, or smile because of them, I thought it would be fun to share them.
Engagement
- A woman should not marry a man whose last name starts with the same letter as her last name.
- A woman should only ask a man to marry her during leap years, otherwise she risks a marriage that will not work out.
- The bride should not take off her engagement ring until the wedding day, otherwise it is bad luck.
- Engagement and wedding rings should be worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because that finger contains a vein that leads directly to the heart.
Wedding Day
- The bride should not see an open grave on her wedding day.
- If the bride cries on her wedding day, it’s a good sign – a sign that those will be the last tears she will shed during her entire marriage.
- If the groom drops the wedding ring during the ceremony, the marriage will be blessed with good luck.
- The vows should not be said after the hours of the day start rewinding, namely after 6 p.m.
- Saturday is the least happiest day to have a wedding.
- The groom should arrive at the church before the bride and should enter it with his right foot first.
- The flower girl announces the arrival of the bride with flowers as a symbol of fertility.
- If a younger sister gets married before her older sister, the older sister must dance barefoot at her younger sister’s wedding or she will never find a husband.
- It is good luck to get married on the day of the week on which the groom was born and even on his birthday.
Wedding Attire
- A bride should not make or even help make her own wedding dress
- Borrowing a wedding dress means good luck to who is borrowing and bad luck to who is lending.
- The bridesmaids’ role is to confuse the evil spirits, so that they don’t know who the bride is.
- Wearing pearls on a wedding day means tears of sadness will be shed for each pearl.
- The wedding veil protects the bride from evil spirits.
- If the bride rips her wedding dress during the wedding day, it means her marriage will end with a death.
- It is considered good luck if a bride finds a spider on her wedding dress on the day of the wedding.
Wedding Cake
- The bride and groom cut the first slice of cake together so as to assure a lifetime of sharing.
- The single women who attend the wedding should take a slice of wedding cakehome and place it under their pillow so as to dream with the man they will marry.
After the Wedding
- The first person to fall asleep on the wedding night will be the first to die.
- After the wedding and when entering her new home for the first time, the bride must not trip or fall, in order to assure a problem-free marriage. That is why it is tradition that the groom carry the bride over the threshold of the door of their new home after the wedding.
- Throwing rice, flowers or confetti at the bride and groom is a symbol of fertility.
