Much of the superstition that has grown around weddings over the generations started out as ways to assure good luck, prosperity, happiness and fertility to the newlyweds. Another very important aspect was to confuse or drive away all evil spirits that sought to spoil the wedding day.
THE PROPOSAL,
On the wedding day, while on the way to the bride’s family, superstition has it that the groom’s representatives had to avoid blind men, monks and pregnant women; although goats and pigeons were considered lucky. For the bride, practicing writing her new name was and still is thought of as being very unlucky, and taking on a surname that started with the same letter as her own denoted unhappiness to come.
THE CHURCH,
On the way to the church, superstition dictates it was lucky for the bride-to-be to see herself in the mirror once before she left, but not to look in a mirror again after leaving the house. Seeing a chimney sweep was very lucky, and sweeps can still be hired today to bestow good luck on the couple. Lambs, black cats and rainbows were all good omens, pigs, crowing cocks monks and nuns were all bad.
SOMETHING BLUE,
Everybody knows the “something old, something new, something borrowed something blue” rhyme, which is a Victorian superstition. The” something blue” was traditionally a blue ribbon. Full details on our site
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