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"Something new" is for the wish for health, success and happiness and the couple's new life together. This may be symbolised by new jewllery worn on the wedding day, or even your new wedding shoes!
"Something borrowed" Tradition suggests that a happily married woman may lend the bride her garter or other item, to ensure the bride also has a happy marriage. Any borrowed item would be suitable, as it can also suggest the bride's link to family and friends that she can depend on.
"Something blue" represents love, purity and fidelity. Originating in Biblical times, when blue stood for purity. Today brides may have a blue garter, or a blure flower tucked in their bouquet, or even toenails painted blue, or a blue wedding gown!
"And a silver sixpence in her shoe" stands for financial security. If you are unable to get hold of a silver sixpence, a modern day penny will do. And if you think you will be uncomfortale with a coin in your shoe or the length of the ceremony, try sticking it to the bottom on you shoe. (Note, this will only work on heels, so the coin can be stuck under the arch of the shoe, and not make a tapping sound everytime you put your foot down!)
Married in white, you have chosen alright.
Married in green, ashamed to be seen.
Married in red, You will wish yourself dead.
Married in blue, you will always be true
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow.
Married in black, you will wish yourself back.
Married in pink, of you he'll think.
- "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe."Originating in Victorian times, this rhyme stands for good luck for the newly married couple.
"Something new" is for the wish for health, success and happiness and the couple's new life together. This may be symbolised by new jewllery worn on the wedding day, or even your new wedding shoes!
"Something borrowed" Tradition suggests that a happily married woman may lend the bride her garter or other item, to ensure the bride also has a happy marriage. Any borrowed item would be suitable, as it can also suggest the bride's link to family and friends that she can depend on.
"Something blue" represents love, purity and fidelity. Originating in Biblical times, when blue stood for purity. Today brides may have a blue garter, or a blure flower tucked in their bouquet, or even toenails painted blue, or a blue wedding gown!
"And a silver sixpence in her shoe" stands for financial security. If you are unable to get hold of a silver sixpence, a modern day penny will do. And if you think you will be uncomfortale with a coin in your shoe or the length of the ceremony, try sticking it to the bottom on you shoe. (Note, this will only work on heels, so the coin can be stuck under the arch of the shoe, and not make a tapping sound everytime you put your foot down!)
- The White Wedding Dress is a fairly modern tradition. Up until around the late 1800s, brides would just wear their 'best dress'.
But when Queen Victoria posed with Prince Albert, wearing a white wedding dress (a photo taken after they were married, possibly to re-enct the wedding for that new invention- cameras!), it became popular. With the Industrial Revolution, and the arrival of department stores, more and more women could afford to have a 'new' dress to be married in. Popularity waned during the World Wars and depression due to scarcity of material, themes of thift and 'make-do-and-mend', and the fact that often war-time engagements were so short, there was just not enough time to find a new dress. Post-WW2 prosperity, and marriges such as that of Grace Kelly to Prince Rainier of Monaco, made dream weddings, and dream dresses, seem possible again. This traditional rhyme warned a bride about her choice of colours,
Married in white, you have chosen alright.
Married in green, ashamed to be seen.
Married in red, You will wish yourself dead.
Married in blue, you will always be true
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow.
Married in black, you will wish yourself back.
Married in pink, of you he'll think.
Nowadays, just about any colour will do! Not everyone looks good in white, and red is a popular colour for winter-time weddings.
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