MARRIAGE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 79, 27 December 1937, Page 5

MARRIAGE CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS

Wedding customs are probably us varied and also as persistent as any other social peculiarities. If they can be called that. Each country has its own procedure and each has its superstitions. Here are a few examples. First of all, from England, comes a question of procedure. It concerns a second wedding. A bride who is a widow does not wear full bridal dress, nor haye bridesmaids, but she may have one maid of honour. Her fornier wedding ring sbe leaves at home though she may wear it above her new ring afterwards, if she should wish to. .It is usual for her wedding to take place from the house of friends and their name will appear on the invitations In England, they say, "Something old and something new, something bor rowed and something blue, " in Sweden it is "Something gold and something silver for luck." In the Swedish bride's left shde her father puts a piece of silver, so she may never lack neces sities; in her right shoe her mother pnts a piece of gold so that she may nevcr lack luxuries. In Germany the belief is held that pearls aTe nnlucky on the wedding day. No German bride, if she were the least superstituous would wear a pearl necklace then, for it would mean that fox as many pearls as she wore, so many times would her husband cause her to shed tears.