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Something Old, Something
New
Something Borrowed, Something Blue
...and a Sixpence in Her Shoe |
| by Christine McFall
of Celebrations
Bridal |
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Something Old
- Signifies a sense of continuity and
tradition and represents a link to the bride’s family
and the past. Many brides choose to wear a piece of antique
family jewelry or a mother’s or grandmother’s wedding
dress on their wedding day.
Something New -
Signifies the couple’s new beginning, a new life together
as well as their hope for good fortune and success in the future.
The wedding gown is often chosen as the new item.
Something Borrowed -
To remind the bride that friends and family will be there for
her when help is needed. The object should be borrowed from
a happily married friend or family member. This comes with a
wish that your married life will mirror the happiness in their
marriage. Brides can borrow jewelry, a lace handkerchief, or
even part of the wedding attire.
Something Blue -
Blue represents fidelity, love, loyalty and purity. Often the
blue item is the garter.
And a Sixpence in her Shoe - Signifies both financial wealth and
a wealth of happiness and joy.
 The
Legend of the Sixpence
A Wedding Tradition
According to tradition, during the early 1600s the Lord of the
Manor would present a sixpence to the bride as a wedding gift.
Toward the end of the seventeenth century, it became customary
for the bride’s parents to include a lucky sixpence as
part of the dowry gift to the groom.
As time went on the custom of using the sixpence as part of
the bride’s attire developed. In Victorian England the
traditional lucky wedding sixpence was given to the bride by
her father just before her wedding. He would place the coin
into his daughter’s left slipper for good luck. Even today
it is said that the lucky sixpence, worn in the bride’s
left shoe during the wedding, brings the newlywed couple a lifetime
of good health, happiness, wealth, and happy wedded bliss. |
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