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Wedding facts and trivia from around the globe
Everyone's got a know-it-all in the family: the aunt who knows everything about everyone and their business, the brother who rattles off Sachin stats in his sleep and the Bollywood-enthusiast cousin. Here are some wedding facts and trivia to help you be the wedding know-it-all!
All for luck
- According to Greek culture tucking a sugar cube into the bride's glove will sweeten her marriage.
- The English believe a spider found in a wedding dress means good luck. Yikes!
- "Monday is for wealth, Tuesday is for health, Wednesday is the best day to marry..." - An English saying.
- As per Western traditions, the groom carries the bride across the threshold to bravely protect her from evil spirits lurking below.
- Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day, according to English folklore. Funnily enough, it being the middle of the weekend it's the most popular day of the week to marry!
- Ancient Romans studied pig entrails to determine the luckiest time to marry.
- Rain on your wedding day is actually considered good luck, according to Hindu tradition!
- For good luck, Egyptian women pinch the bride on her wedding day. Ouch!
 Middle Eastern brides paint henna on their hands and feet to protect themselves from the evil eye.
- Peas are thrown at Czech newlyweds instead of the more popular rice.
- A Swedish bride puts a silver coin from her father and a gold coin from her mother in each shoe to ensure that she'll never do without.
- A Finnish bride traditionally went door-to-door collecting gifts in a pillowcase, accompanied by an older married man who represented long marriage.
- Moroccan women take a milk bath to purify themselves before their wedding ceremony.
- In Holland, a pine tree is planted outside the newlyweds' home as a symbol of fertility and luck.
Does this ring a bell?
- Engagement and wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because it was once thought that a vein in that finger led directly to the heart.
- About 70% of all brides sport the traditional diamond on the fourth finger of their left hand.
- Priscilla Presley's engagement ring was a whopping 3 1/2-carat rock surrounded by a detachable row of smaller diamonds.
- Diamonds set in gold or silver became popular as betrothal rings among wealthy Venetians toward the end of the fifteenth century.
- In the symbolic language of jewels, a sapphire in a wedding ring means marital happiness.
- A pearl engagement ring is said to be bad luck because its shape echoes that of a tear.
- One of history's earliest engagement rings was given to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. She was two years old at the time.
- Seventeen tons of gold are made into wedding rings each year in the United States!
- Snake rings dotted with ruby eyes were popular wedding bands in Victorian England -- the coils winding into a circle symbolized eternity.
- Aquamarine represents marital harmony and is said to ensure a long, happy marriage.
Food & Family
- In Egypt, the bride's family traditionally does all the cooking for a week after the wedding, so the couple can... relax.
- In South Africa, the parents of both bride and groom traditionally carried fire from their hearths to light a new fire in the newlyweds' hearth.
 The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, where revelers broke a loaf of bread over a bride's head for fertility's sake.
- The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.
- Queen Victoria's wedding cake weighed a whopping 300 pounds.
- Legend says single women will dream of their future husbands if they sleep with a slice of groom's cake under their pillows.
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