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International Superstitions: Marriage & Weddings Carmen Caffarena, Turhan Ece, Minjung Song, and Renata Pauperio comment on old beliefs about brides and grooms.
Take Note if You're Getting Married in Spain If a groom's friend cuts a piece of the groom's tie, he'll get married soon. If the bride wears something blue, she'll have a happy marriage. If the groom sees the bride's dress, she'll have bad luck during the ceremony.
Wedding Superstitions in Turkey If you get married between two annual religious festivals that are two months apart, you might be unlucky. If you write the name of one of your friends under the sole of your shoes in your wedding ceremony, and it is erased, he/she will wed in a short period of time. If you catch a candy which is thrown by the bride, you will wed in a short period of time.
They'll Have Daughters and Sons If a bridegroom smiles a lot in a wedding, he will get a daughter as a first child. If a bride takes some nuts, she will get a lot of sons. (Traditionally, the parents of a bridegroom throw nuts and plums to a bride after a wedding. At that time, a bride puts nuts or plums in her shirt.)
How
to Cause a Rainy Wedding Day
Evelyn
Infante from Venezuela, Setsuka Sendai from Japan,
and Hyun-Joo Kim from Korea, interviewed
international students to find out superstitions
about weddings. This is what they were
told. In
Taiwan, they say: If a woman serves as a
bridesmaid more than In
the U.S., Colombia, and Spain,
they say: If the bride wears something new,
something old, and something borrowed; she will
have good luck. In Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia they say: If the groom sees the bride's wedding dress before their wedding, the bride will have bad luck. |
