Some Odd Weddings Traditions
Some Odd Weddings Traditions
For the rest of their lives, the man and woman shall be together.
Doesn’t it sound romantic? A man and women leave their individual homes to start a new family of their own. It has been like this from time immemorial. Throughout the millennia, the concept of family and marriage have been so closely knotted together that it is sometimes impossible to separate one from the other.
Marriage is present in every culture in some form. Although the laws, customs, and cultures may differ, they all still recognize the union of man and woman under one roof.
Marriage has evolved in so many ways from the different cultures all throughout the world and over the ages of time. Each unique culture will have a different way to celebrate union of marriage. But in each culture, there has always been one thing that has remained the same – that in every culture, every tribe, marriage has always been celebrated with the utmost of festivities, of singing, eating, and celebrating.
Along with these festivities, man has also adopted a growing number of traditions, each filled with meaning and believe it or not, they can have shocking origins.
The Wedding Cake Today’s tall, elaborate and delicately crafted wedding cakes evolved from the simple grooms-cakes made by family members for the bride. These small cakes where called, ’groom’s cakes’ and were put under the brides pillow the evening before the wedding event. The bride would then sleep and dream of the groom, and yes, squish that cake into oblivion.
This cake could easily be termed as ’pound cake’ because it would be “pound up” and then they would give pieces to people to crumble and toss at the new couple as a sign of fertility. That is where the today’s custom of tossing rice on the bride and groom originally came from.
Wedding cakes today usually will have several layers to them. The higher the stack, the more glamorous the cake. People usually regard these arrangements as merely style. However, they were done so in the past as a symbol of fertility. The original tradition for wedding cakes was that the stacks symbolized how many children the couple might have. It was a long tradition that the more stacks in the cake the more children they would have.
Tying the Knot
Now the truth can be told, tying the knot did not necessarily mean getting knotted together. An ancient custom was that the bride would be wrapped in sheep’s wool, draped around her body with a knot in the front of the covering. It was a symbol of virginity. The groom then had the honor of untying the knot on the wedding night.
Best Man – Secret Agent The best man used to play a different role in the early middle ages. During tribal times, it was the best man’s duty to abduct potential brides from other tribes. He would usually do so by clubbing the poor damsel over the head and drag her back home – just like those comic skits about what cavemen did. The best man would also have the responsibility to keep any angry relatives away. During these early ages, the best man would have club in hand while his friend, the groom married his newly found bride.
Today
Fortunately for us, today’s weddings are far less barbaric in nature and there have been a lot of changes from many of the wedding traditions of old. These traditions are filled with meaning and can only serve to make your wedding day more memorable.
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Oct 20th, 2008
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