20 Wedding Facts I Bet You Didn't Know..... Wedding Photographer in Gauteng (www.solodeogloriaphotography.com)

20 Wedding Facts I Bet You Didn't Know..... Wedding Photographer in Gauteng
Following the interesting wedding costumes blog we did last week, we thought we would treat you to some more strange and out of the ordinary wedding facts, you might never have heard of. This really should make you questions some of our traditions, and wonder the true meaning behind, why we do certain things at our weddings....
 

So here goes, 20 wedding facts I bet you didn't know:

• The English believe a spider found in a wedding dress means good luck.
• In English tradition, Wednesday is considered the "best day" to marry, although Monday is for wealth and Tuesday is for health.
• Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day, according to English folklore. Funny -- it's the most popular day of the week to marry!
• A Swedish bride puts a silver coin from her father and a gold coin from her mother in each shoe to ensure that she'll never do without.
•  Finnish bride traditionally went door-to-door collecting gifts in a pillowcase, accompanied by an older married man who represented long marriage.
• Moroccan women take a milk bath to purify themselves before their wedding ceremony.
• Engagement and wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because it was once thought that a vein in that finger led directly to the heart.
• In the symbolic language of jewels, a sapphire in a wedding ring means marital happiness.
• A pearl engagement ring is said to be bad luck because its shape echoes that of a tear.
• One of history's earliest engagement rings was given to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. She was two years old at the time.
• Seventeen tons of gold are made into wedding rings each year in the United States!
• Snake rings dotted with ruby eyes were popular wedding bands in Victorian England -- the coils winding into a circle symbolized eternity.
• Most expensive wedding ever? The marriage of Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum's son to Princess Salama in Dubai in May 1981. The price tag? $44 million
• In Denmark, brides and grooms traditionally cross-dressed to confuse evil spirits!
• Queen Victoria's wedding cake weighed a whopping 300 pounds.
• Legend says single women will dream of their future husbands if they sleep with a slice of groom's cake under their pillows.
• The bride stands to the groom's left during a Christian ceremony, because in bygone days the groom needed his right hand free to fight off other suitors.
• On average, 7,000 couples marry each day in the United States.
• The Catholic tradition of "posting the banns" to announce a marriage originated as a way to ensure the bride and groom were not related.
• Brides, tuck a sugar cube into your glove -- according to Greek culture, the sugar will sweeten your union.

Source: The Knot
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