Marriage Customs and Beliefs

Manawatu Times, Volume 62, Issue 33, 9 February 1937, Page 10

Marriage Customs and Beliefs

Wedding customs are probably as varied and also as persistent as any other social peculiarities, if they can bo 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 brido who is a widow docs not wear full bridal dress, nor have bridesmaids, bu,t she may have ouo maid of honour. Her former wedding ring she 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 borrowed and something blue, ,, in Sweden it is “Something gold and something silver for luck. M In the Swedish bride's left shoe her father puts a pieco of silver, so she may never lack necessities ;in her right shoe her mother puts a piece of gold so that she may never lack luxuries.

In Germany the belief is held that pearls are unlucky cn tko wedding day. No German bride, if she were the least superstitious, would wear a pearl necklace then, for it would mean that for as many pearls as sho wore, so many times would her husband cause her to shed tears.