BRIDAL CUSTOMS
Many and curious are the customs regarding 1 brides. In Switzerland the biide on her wedding day will permit no one, not even her parents, to kiss her upon the lips. In parts of rural England the cook pours hot water over the threshold after the bridal couple, have gone in order to keep it warm for another bride. he pretty custom of throwing tne slipper originated in France. An old woman, seeing the carriage of her young King— Louis XIII. —passing on the way from church, where he had just *>een married, took off her shoe, and, flinging it -at bus coach, cried out, f ‘Tis all I have, your Majesty, but mas the blessing of God go with it.” There is an old superstition in Germany against .marriages in. May. A favourite wedding day in Scotland is 31st December, so that the young couple can leave tlieir old life with the old year and begin their married with the new one. The Italians permit no wedding gifts that are sharp or pointed, connected with which practice is our superstition that the gift of a knife severs friendship. One marriage custom is that of the bride, immediately after the ceremony, flinging her bouquet among her maiden friends. She who catches it is destined to be the next bride.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1611, 14 January 1903, Page 25
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