What do superstitious brides do?
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The wedding day is the most exciting time for a bride. For some brides, all of the preparation and planning also entails upholding time-honored traditions and superstitions about the wedding. Everything from the dress to the ceremony may carry some sort of superstition with it.
Hide the Dress
A superstitious bride will never let her future husband see the dress she plans to marry him in because it is said to be bad luck. The superstition from ancient times was that if the groom saw the bride in her dress before the wedding, it was sneaking a glimpse at the future. Today, in Western Europe and Brazil, brides still heavily practice this superstition of hiding the dress. The dress should be a surprise to the groom that is only revealed when the bride walks down the aisle. For this reason, the bride may opt to keep the wedding dress at the house of a family member or bridesmaid.
Spend the Night Apart
After the rehearsal dinner and other activities have finished, a superstitious bride will say goodnight to her groom and part ways for the night. The thought behind this is that it is bad luck to see the bride before the ceremony. Due to beliefs in Roman times, couples that were to marry did not see each other until the day of the ceremony- in some cases, they did not even know each other. Since arranged marriages are not common, today, superstitious couples spend the night before the wedding apart. The couple should not meet again until they are both dressed and ready to become man and wife.
Something Old, New . . . And a Sixpence in Her Shoe
This time-honored tradition and superstition comes from England and an Old Victorian rhyme. By wearing all of these things, brides in Roman and Anglo Saxon times believed good luck and prosperity would befall them. The old represents friend's staying in your lives, the borrowed item is given by a happily married family member, the new represents success and the blue signifies prosperity. Brides also began to stick sixpence in their shoe because it was thought to bring wealth to the marriage. Superstitious brides still follow this rhyme- however, they place a penny in their shoe in place of a sixpence.
Certain Month or Certain Day
Among the many Victorian ideas and rhymes about marriage, there are poems about which day and month to be married in. Superstitious brides may use this as a guide by not marrying in May because one rhyme says, "Marry in May, you'll rue the day." Some brides may opt for a Friday or Sunday wedding instead of Saturday because one rhyme states, "Saturday for no luck at all." June was often considered a lucky month because it was named for Juno, the goddess of marriage.
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