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Weddings have their own set of rules and traditions that are commonly, but not always, followed by many to this day. If you’re planning a wedding or even just planning on attending one anytime soon you may be interested in learning about some of these traditions and what they actually mean or their history. You’re sure to find some people at the wedding who don’t know the information regarding these traditions, so share it with them.
Throwing rice or bird seed: This tradition stems from breaking up wedding pound cake and sprinkling it over the couple, which was done for fertility.
Wedding cake stack up: The bride and groom would try to kiss over the stack of cakes and the number of cakes they could successfully kiss over was regarded as the number of children that they would have together. It all started with a Frenchman in the 13th century.
The wedding cake: Once they were simply grooms cakes, which a member of the family would make. As single women left the wedding reception, they each would take a slice of the cake and put it under her pillow… dreaming of her someday-groom-to-be.
Best man: The best man in today’s wedding is different than what they originally were. The “best man” was originally a tribe’s best warrior and it was his duty to fight off anyone trying to protect the “bride-to-be” when he and the groom would abduct her (brides weren’t always so abundant back then). Later, the “best man” stood with a sword to the right of the groom to fight off any objectors.
The wedding ring: Wedding rings were once crafted from iron so they would last forever as a marriage is intended to last forever. It’s placed on the wedding ring finger because there is a vein that was believed to run from the heart to that finger. Many women to this day consider it bad luck to ever remove their wedding ring from that finger.
Other traditions like the flower girl are fairly new compared to some of the other traditions. The flower girl used to bear wheat. This was a symbolization of fertility.
No matter if you’re the bride or groom or just going to a wedding, it’s fun to know and understand what these traditions stem from. Bet you would have never guessed that the best man used to be the someone who abducted the bride!
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