December 10th, 2009
Little Wedding Bits
My mother shipped me a large box of old Martha Stewart Weddings that I collected years ago, before I was planning weddings, but while I was working as a floral designer. It’s been fun to look through them and re-read the little quips on wedding traditions. Some are sweet and others are ideas for how to infuse your day with cultural traditions.
I thought I’d share a few.
Chinese legend holds that the two individuals of a couple are bound at birth by a thread that shrinks over time until the two are brought together in marriage.
People have been using an “X” to indicate kiss for over 100 years. Some believe this tradition began as a stylized drawing of lips touching.
It’s a Scotish tradition for grooms to give each of the mothers a silver spoon engraved with the couple’s initials.
Pearls are traditionally associated with frozen tears. It’s believed that wearing them may bring on the real thing.
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from Erik Clausen of Poser Image
[...] I also enjoy reading about how weddings have evolved, where some of the traditions we observe today came from and how marriage and weddings differ in other areas around the world. A few traditions and bits of wedding culture from around the world I’ve come across in old issues of Martha Stewart Weddings were shared in this post. [...]