Wedding Superstitions

[mysterygal]

Superstitions:I know Holly's getting married, along with some other women on the lounge..found this and thought you girls might want these, you never know, it could save your life
The Big Day
Good Luck:Pick a date when the moon is waxing (increasing in size) and an hour when the tide is rising. Also be sure to time the wedding ceremony so that it ends in the second half of the hour, when the minute hand is rising on the face of the clock. Don't stop there: Everything associated with the wedding should be moving up, up, up! Anything that rises or grows promises rising fortunes for you and your spouse.
Bad Luck: Don't schedule the wedding for early in the morning. That will bring bad luck-and it's not just a superstition: in the old days the groom, and sometimes even the bride, needed ample time to clean themselves up after morning farm chores, lest they risk showing up at church smelling of animals and manure. (Nowadays it gives the groom a chance to recover from his bachelor party or whatever antics went on the night before)
The Dress
Good Luck:Whit has been a lucky color for formal weddings in the West for more than a century; for informal ceremonies, any color will do...except for black or red.
Bad Luck:Black symbolizes death-only widows can wear it-and red, the color of the devil, is unlucky too. If a woman wears a red wedding dress 1)she and her husband will fight before their first anniversary or 2) her husband will 'soon die'
The Veil
Good luck:The woman who puts on the veil on the bride should be happily married. If possible, the bride should wear the veil her grandmother wore, to ensure 'that she will always have wealth'
Bad Luck:No one other than members of the brides family should see her veil before the ceremony, and once she is fully dressed, she shouldn't look in the mirror again until after the cerermony is over. She should leave one small article of dress, perhaps a ribbon or a pin, undone so that she can add it at the last minute without having to look in a mirror.
Jewelry
Good Luck:Wearing earrings will bring the bride good luck
Bad Luck:Don't wear pearls-not in the earrings or the necklace, on the dress, or anyplace else. Pearls symbolize tears. 'For every pearl a bride wears, her husband will give her a reason to cry'
Omens
Good Luck:The animals you see on the way to church are full of omens. Lambs, doves, wolves, spiders, and toads are all good luck. If birds fly directly over your car, that's also good luck-it means you're going to have a lot of kids (Okay, maybe that's bad luck...)
Bad Luck:If a pig crosses your path on your way to the wedding, that's bad luck. If a bat flies into the church, that's bad luck also.

 

[raiderrescuer]

Wedding Superstitions...

Isn't there the classics:
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue.
The Groom not seeing the Bride the day of the Wedding.
Having the Best Man "guard" the Bride before the Wedding.
Tipping the Best Man and the Maiden of Honor.


Then the ha ha ones...
Flogging the guy who brings a camera to the bachelor party.
Urban Legend of Not throwing Rice.

 

[Lincsong]

Now I've got that Frank Sinatra song; I'm getting married in the morning, ding dong the bells are going to chime. Please lord, get me the church, please lord get me to the church on time.lol lol in my head.

 

[mysterygal]

Or better yet, the theme song to the show,'Married with Children'..
Love and marriage,
love and marriage,
go together like a horse and carraige.....

 

[Brooksie]

I have a book that has a few wedding superstitions....
Marry on:
Monday for wealth
Tuesday for health
Wednesday best day of all
Thursday for losses
Friday for crosses
Saturday no luck at all

It has been told that a doomed marriage takes place on a Thursday.

My book also states: If you change the name and not the letter
you mary for worse and not the better.

Mary in Lent....Live to Repent

Brooksie

 

[Daisy Buchanan]

I'm so superstitious, I'd probably follow all of these rules if I ever get married! Thanks for all the warnings

 

[LaMedicine]

Funny how cultures differ.

Neither red nor black is considered back luck for brides here.
As a matter of fact, one of the traditional colors of wedding kimonos is black with colorful prints and embroidery, always including gold and silver.
Red is the color that symbolizes prosperity and good fortune in the orient, so are often favored colors for bridal kimonos. I believe the traditional Chinese and Korean wedding attires are also red.

Here, it's the patterns and designs of the prints and embroidery, rather than colors that are considered good or bad luck. Wedding kimonos, and those of any/everyone attending the ceromony and receptions, must include the various patterns and figures (and there are miriads of them) that are considered good luck. There are also patterns that have strong connections with mourning/death like lotuses which must be avoided.

The most formal attire for the mothers of the brides and grooms are black kimonos with the family crests dyed into 5 places, one on the back, two on the back of either sleeves, and two on the front on the chest on both sides, with gorgeous print and embroidery from the lap down to the hem and circling all around. The sashes are also gorgeous gold or silver based brocades.

 

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

rule #1

Superstition is bad luck.©

 

[mysterygal]

Superstition is bad luck.©

lol agreed! or make a person VERY paranoid.
lamed, I think these are more western culture superstitions. As if on your wedding day you didn't have enough to worry or stress about!

 

[LaMedicine]

As if on your wedding day you didn't have enough to worry or stress about!

Now that is something that has no boundaries.lol lol lol

 

[Twitch]

And it's supposed to be bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding:fedora:

 

[matei]

In Romania, if it rains on the wedding day it means that you'll do well financially in the future.

When we got married it was 45C and sunny. [huh]

That being said, I never heard anyone say if it is sunny you'll be poor.

It is also considered bad luck for a bride to see any other brides prior to the religious ceremony.

We were lucky; we had the whole church to ourselves that day!

 

[Miss Dottie]

I'm getting married in less than three months--the same day as the QM--oof!

But I've also heard that it is good luck to sew a couple of stitches on the brides dress just before she goes down the aisle.

I've also heard that it's extra good luck for the bride to have a borrowed veil. But it's bad luck for a married woman to lend a bride her veil.

Good thing I heard about the earrings. I was just about to nix them from my outfit--you know the old rule about putting on all of your jewelry and then take one piece off--until I heard that it is good luck to wear them. Sigh!

 

[Girl Friday]

This is a little off the topic, but I had a dream once that I showed up to my wedding and they were wheeling a coffin out, like they had scheduled a wedding and a funeral on the same day!?!

I am not married and have never been, so I thought this was really weird.