catchy fact about weddings

catchy fact about weddings

 we cannot just a royal wedding today but just where did they come from?

Today’s weddings are filled with pomp glory and a lot of color let alone preparations and celebrations. A wedding is a great venture in the life of a couple that ensures that the roots of tradition held close to the couple’s life are carried on. But just where did weddings originate from? Were they filled with pomp and glory just like today? The wedding ceremony date back into the ancient Egypt and Europe where the customs of these two countries were highly upheld to conduct these ceremonies. Some of these customs used to believe that a couple had to conduct a wedding ceremony to avoid the cropping up of a disease or plague in their lives. Some of the marriages in the olden days were done in a less glorious way where the bride’s men would kidnap the bride from a whole different tribe. The groom would then conduct a simple ceremony far away from either of the party’s parents. The groom would have already fought the female’s family of the tribesmen with swords held on their right hand and the groom would hold her bride on the left hand. This clearly explains why a bride is still held on the left hand of the groom even in today’s weddings. After the wedding, the groom would hold captive her bride for close to a whole month for purposes of getting to know her. This is a classic replica of the present day honey moon. The term wedding originated from the Anglo Saxon word ‘wedd’ that means that a man takes a bride and pays for her to the bride’s father.

How about the wedding bouquets? Were they as glamorous? The wedding bouquets by then were classically made of herbs that included garlic that were symbolic to chase away the evil spirits. They were also used to stick away the smell of those who had not taken a bath for some time. Interestingly, after the wedding the ladies attending the wedding would tear up her wedding gown as a gesture of sharing in good luck for them. Later on this tradition grew to the bride tossing the bouquet of garlic as a good luck sign and also as a sign of chasing away the evil spirits. Even the bridesmaids of then wore clothes that looked alike. Theirs was a symbol of chasing the evil spirits. During the 5th century, rings were used to sign up the wedding. The ring finger however was the index finger, a fact that changed when other beliefs endorsed that the third finger had bouts of love. Food was also an interesting factor of these weddings and was eaten with a lot of grace. The cake was cut in a unique way with the cake being broken over the head of the bride as a sign of fertility. It is interesting to know that some of these traditions are still carried today.