OCR Text |
Show j Early Bride Had Something Old. New. Borrowed, Blue The bride of olden time had to be constantly on the alert to foil the demons lurking about to put the hex on her. In addition to "something old, something now, something borrowed, something blue," she wore a "sixpence in her shoe" for luck. She hid behind a veil, received support from her attendant at-tendant maids, carried rosemary or flowers, and walked over scattered scat-tered blossoms to ward oft the malevolence of a "wraith of fallen angels" who was jealous of human hu-man happiness. In some countries it was customary cus-tomary to cover the path to the church door with emblems of the bridegroom's trade. For a carpenter, car-penter, wood shavings would be strewn; for a blacksmith, bits of iron; for a paper hanger, slips of paper. It is likely that our modern mode of the bridal couple walking away from the church beneath an arch of weapons, or implements incident to the groom's profession, grew out of this old custom. |