| Brides Parents Traditional Responsibilities |
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Brides Parents Traditional ResponsibilitiesThe father will be third in line to dance with the bride.At the rehearsal dinner, father to toast couple.Be the last to leave reception saying goodnight to guests.Father escorts his daughter down the aisle to the ceremony site and stands next to the mother of the bride in the receiving line. Give plenty of moral support, and offer to help with wedding ...
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| Celtic Wedding Rituals -- |
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One of the most elegant rituals you can choose for a wedding is the traditional Celtic hand fasting. After the vows, the bride and groom's wrists are bound together with five colored ribbons, each symbolizing an aspect of marriage and their shared commitment. It is a long standing Celtic tradition that is still quite popular, and happens to be the origin of the expression tying the ...
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| More Wedding Traditions |
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ConfettiTraditionally thrown over the couple to bring fertility to the newly weds.Wedding BellsBells are rung at weddings to protect the couple from future misfortunes.Wedding GiftsGuest bringing presents dates back hundreds of years when originally fruits were offered to encourage fertility.Carrying the Bride Across the ThresholdSymbolising the bride giving up her virginity, it is also now ...
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| Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, |
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Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and a Silver Sixpence in Her Shoe. This saying dates back to Victorian times. Something Old represents the link with the bride’s family and the past. Many brides choose to wear a piece of antique family jewelry or a mother’s or grandmother’s wedding gown. Something New represents good fortune and ...
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| The All-White Bridal Quilt |
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The wedding quilt, all white, intricately stitched and corded, has a fascinating yet relatively unknown history originating in southern Europe more than 700 years ago. Evidently, the oldest “living” examples of quilting of any type are Sicilian quilts dated circa 1392, wedding gifts elaborately covered with scenes from the legend of Tristan. They were made of a double layer of heavy, ...
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| The Tradition of the Wedding Gift Registry |
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Originating in France, the bridal registry dates back to the 19th century, when great distances between the bride and groom was common and communication was difficult. What was one to do? Christofle, a fine manufacturer of silverware, was the man that found the solution to the problem: the bride's parents would select in advance their daughter's trousseau. Thus the Bridal Registry was ...
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| The Unity Candle |
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The unity candle symoblizes the families of the bride and groom coming together to form one new family. Traditionally, the mothers of the bride and groom light the taper candles (representing each of their families) and the bride and groom, with the taper candles, light one large pillar candle together (representing the new family that is being created), as two lives joined as one.For centuries, ...
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| The Wedding Day Garter |
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Throwing the garter began in France. Sections of the bridal attire were considered to be lucky. At the wedding, the bride would throw the garter to the guests and whoever caught it could expect good luck. Additionally the man who catches it is thought to be the next to marry. The garter is placed on the brides right leg, just above the knee. The bride may choose to wear both a garter to throw as ...
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| Tracing the Evolution of Wedding Gifts through the Ages |
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A wedding is incomplete without gift giving. Giving wedding gifts have become part of matrimonial tradition. Whether given by guests and relatives or by the newly-wed couple, the important thing is there should be gifts during wedding celebrations.It is not clear though how and when the tradition of giving gifts during weddings started. It is safe to assume though that this tradition was first ...
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| Traditions - Money Dance History |
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The Money Dance is alive and well, and it's a very popular custom at many wedding receptions all over the world. The money dance is traditional in several different cultures. In most cases, it is a dance where the male guests pay for the privilege of dancing with the bride, although in today's weddings, the female guests also pay for the privilege of dancing with the groom. Each ...
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| Wedding Traditions - The Wedding Cake |
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The Wedding CakeIt is extremely good luck to eat wedding cake. It symbolises fertility and brings good fortune to all who indulge in it.The First Cut of the CakeSymbolising faithfulness and sharing it is traditional for the couple to share the cutting of the first slice of the wedding cake. Sending cake to those unable to attend is a gesture of sharing the good luck which the wedding cake will ...
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