Wedding Superstitions.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 131, 7 June 1904, Page 4

Wedding Superstitions.

You will Bnd superstitions hanging around most events, but probably more odd ideas are attached to the wedding day than any other. The weather is naturally o! importance, "Happy the bride that the sun shines on !" has passed into a proverb. More especially is it considered a sign of good luck should a ray manage to find its way through the dusky splendour of stained-glass windows, and touch the heads of the kneeling couple before the altar. May marriages have ever—for some inscrutable reason—been deemed unlucky, although why one of the most beautiful of months is thus under a ban it would be hard to explain. As Church custom and popular superstition are equally averse to a marriage taking place during Lent, the last weeks of April might be termed the marriage season, more marriages taking place then than during an equal time in any other month. Friday, an unlucky day for everything, is naturally considered doubly unlucky for a wedding Regarding the bridal attire, superstition is rife. But when the toilette is absolutely complete, no matter how great the temptation, not so much as a glance must be given in Uie mirror. This superstition, by the way, is usually evaded |by leaving one hand ungloved until in the carriage. To meet a funeral either going or coming from the church is indeed an omen of ill, or any accident, no matter how slight, to happen to the bridal carriage, is thought to predict certain unhappiness. "To change the name and not the letter, is a change for the worse and not for better," refers to the .surnames of the contracting parties commencing with the same letter of tho alphabet. For the newly-wedded couple to sit in the catriage after the ceremony with their backs to the horses is supposed to indicate that they will Jto buckwards all their lives.