Wedding Day Traditions

Well Known Wedding Day Traditions

There are lots of really amazing things you get to think about when planning a wedding. For instance, choosing your short wedding dress, sampling cake and choosing your wedding party. There are also some slightly more obscure planning aspects to factor into your wedding day. If you delve a little deeper you’ll find lots of wedding day traditions that require some thought. We’ve put together some of the wedding day traditions revolving around the bride to be on her wedding day.

Wedding Veil

In Roman time the bride was shrouded in a piece of material to ward off evil spirits long enough to get married.

As the centuries passed this gave way to covering the brides face so that she stayed pure and was only seen by her groom during the ceremony. It also symbolised that as her groom lifted the veil the bride was passing from one family to the grooms family. We have a great list of veils that suit a vintage style wedding dress on the blog.

Wedding Traditions Veil – Bride wearing Molly Mae

Bridesmaids

Ever wondered why bridesmaids are mostly all in the same colour? Or did you just take it for granted that it’s the way it is. Well this particular superstition again dates back to Roman times where a bride and her bridesmaids wore the same dress so as to confuse evil spirits. The bride could then get married and not be marred by any evil hanging over her because the spirits would simply not be able to work out who the bride was.

Here are some of our ideas on what your bridesmaids can wear on your wedding day.

Something Old…

Anyone who is married knows the ‘Something old…’ rhyme all the way through. This wedding tradition comes from an old English rhyme and the objects the bride needs to collect and wear on the day are all to bring good luck.

Something old,
something new,
something borrowed,
something blue,
and a silver sixpence in her shoe

There are lots of interpretations of what these symbols represent, from warding off evil to luck and fortune in the future. Whatever they are, most brides subscribe to them and borrow off their loved ones or choose accessories that fit the rhyme.

Confetti

We now throw paper confetti over brides and grooms as they emerge from the church. This is to grant them fertility and prosperity and guests threw anything from flowers, petals and rice.

Confetti is an Italian word for sweets and they threw confetti at carnivals and celebrations. The English threw rice (it’s a symbol of fertility).

More Wedding Traditions

So there you have some of the better-known traditions to a wedding but there are also the first dance, throwing the bouquet and the honeymoon. These all feature in most modern weddings too. Watch out for our feature on them coming soon.

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