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American Wedding Customs
American Wedding Customs
Throwing of the bride’s bouquet it is very old tradition. It is mean a good luck for the bride, and foretells the next of her friends to be married.

wedding-cakeThe groom's Cake is cut post wedding a piece of the cake is distributed amongst each guest as a memento of the wedding. The belief goes that if a woman slept with a piece of the groom's cake under her pillow, she would dream about the man she would marry.

Planning the wedding day on the June it is another traditional American wedding custom. Because the June it is the best month for wedding traveling, for honeymoon.

Some people believe it is good luck for the bride to make her own wedding dress, others feel it is very unlucky for the bride to even help with the making of the dress. The traditional color for wedding dress it is white. But nowadays many brides choose different color for their wedding gown. Some of them belief in such old saying:

Marry in white, you will do all right
Marry in blue, your man will be true
Marry in brown, you will live in town
Marry in green, you should be ashamed to be seen
Marry in red, wish yourself dead
Marry in black, better turn back
Marry in yellow, not marrying the right fellow
Marry in gray, sadness will come your way

Also some of the bride things that very important to choose correct day. They think if you marry on Monday it is for wealth, on Tuesday for health. The best day for wedding they think it is Wednesday. For that couples who marry on Thursday, Friday or Saturday it will not be lucky marriage.



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