| Show SOME OMEC CURIOUS RI US FACTS 1 CUSTOMS The oldest old t known love letter in the world Is le in the BrItish museum It is isa isa Isa a proposal l of marrit ge for the hand service is great greater than thor this mans whose service ice ia Is great enough for the woman always finds work hard harder harder er than a man and therefore I will win give you yuu a reward At your age 1 I know Cf of none better than titan a dowry and ft a hus husband husband band The dowry is here this farm from thin this time forth belongs to you If I this man who has lias worked with you t and twenty years yea S is 18 willing to marry you then the is 15 ready Your majesty said the tile old peasant how is it possible p ible that we should marry having already silver hairs Then It be a silver sliver weIng And An the king safe gave ga e the couple silver shiver enough gh to keep them then in plenty This soon became came lK known all allover over France and raised such enthusiasm that it be became be became became came a fashion after years of married life to celebrate a a silver The practice o 0 of the tho wife assuming the husbands name at marriage is a Roman custom and originated soon af after after after ter the Roman occupation Julia mar married married ried lied to Pompey became Julio Julia of or Pompey In ln hi latter times married women wom n signed their names in tn the tha same name manner but the of How However However However ever during tb the sixteenth and andS seventeenth S EIn the usage age u seams seema doubtful since we re find Paro signing herself her elf after she be hads had hod been twice mar married marri ried ri In Iceland the ithe th opposite has hItS al ii always always ways been beon the th custom c There after alter marriage the husband assumes the name The word wedding is derived from the weS weIl or se which the An bridegroom gave at espousals als ala for the thO due performance of his eon con contract tract This s wed was held by trus trustees trustees tees toes and md in m addition to it the groom wore vore an air espousal ring As for tor the thew thew wooding w ring it was first designed by Prometheus according to tradition and fashioned out of adamant andiron and Iron i by b Tubal Cain and was given by AdOrn Adam to t his son to this end end that he therewith should hould espouse a wife i Our wedding cake cak is ts the remains 4 whereby a a Roman bride held lidid h ld iii In Ifer fer loft Jolt hand haDa three wheat ears and many centuries later an English h bride vore a chaplet of wheat t The bridesmaids threw grains gr tm of corn or small bits of eake upon the heads of pt the newly nArried and the guests gue ts picked up the pieces and ate them The wedding cake e did not come into geri general use u if the lut century and was then composed of solid saUd blocks laid of ot an Egi Egyptian princess princes a d it was written years Y l ago ligo It is in the form fonn of an inscribed brick k and is therefore not niX only the oldest oId st but the most substantial love letter in exist existence existence ence The first silver silv r wedding Wed DG dates back blick to the time of or Hugues apet Two servants belonging to him had bad grown gray sm in his service gervice a man and a wom worn woman an un and what could he do as a reward Calling the woman he said Your together iced all an over so that when the outer crust was broken over the brides head the cakes cake inside fell on the floor and were distributed among tho the guests Bridal favors Javors are of Dan Danish DanIsh ish origin The true lovers knot knet hav hay having having ing lag been first fir designed de by Danish hearts and deriving its designation from the Danish I plight my troth I IThe The throwing of the slipper comes from front the tIle custom of a shoe being given by the father of the bride to the tM new husband in token of or transference tran of power over her h the groom lightly tap tapping tapping ping the tho brides head with it it The best beat man la Is I a survivor of the band of friends fri Ild who accompanied the suitor in his and kept I atol for fo 11 iOve the brides tribe trib J while the lovec oU ht t the opportunist to carry wr ft his hie prize prim The honeymoon lt journey is the hurried flight of the 1 husband with his hilt wife to t escape escDe the vengeance of ot the pursuing tribe The presents pre s given the bridesmaids and I ushers are simply a relic of the rough bribery U used ed by the ancient bride bridegroom bridegroom bridegroom groom among his personal friends friende so that they would assist in the capture of His ills chosen bride when the day Gay ar arrived arrived rived lived on which he ha had bad determined to carry earry her off In he fifteenth century a bride if one of or the aristocracy often otten received twenty rings ri s from her reia tives and six from the bridegroom two when he became becam interested in her lse two for the espousal and two when they were married I |
