Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1926-10-01 | Page 6 | Break Cake on Bride's Head |

Type	issue
Date	1926-10-01
Paper	Mt. Pleasant Pyramid
Language	eng
City	Mount Pleasant
County	Sanpete
Rights	No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Break Cake on Bride's Head
Type	wedding
Date	1926-10-01
Paper	Mt. Pleasant Pyramid
Language	eng
City	Mount Pleasant
County	Sanpete
Page	6
OCR Text	Show ' Break Cake on Bride's Head j It was the custom of the Romans, I 2,000 years ago, to break the wedding ! cake over the head of the bride as she 1 entered her new home. The breaking j of the cake was part of a solemn cere-: cere-: mony, and was said to be peculiarly Impressive. A similar custom prevails ' In some sections of Scotland, where a bannock Is broken above the head of the young wife ns she, for the first i time, enters her new home. t
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