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| THEME WEDDINGS St Patricks Day Traditions
Theme Weddings:
St. Patrick's Day Traditions
updates by Evelyn Pothier


Irish Traditions, Customs, Omens, Fairies & Luck


GOOD LUCK TRADITIONS

• Lucky horseshoe. Irish brides used to carry a real horseshoe for good luck turned up so the luck won't run out. Today, you can get porcelain horseshoes or one made of fabric which is worn on the wrist.

• Magic Hanky. The bride carries a special hanky that with a few stitches can be turned into a christening bonnet for the first baby. With a couple of snips it can be turned back into a hanky that your child can carry on his/her wedding day.

• Bells. The chime of bells is thought to keep evil spirits away, restore harmony if a couple is fighting, and also remind a couple of their wedding vows. Giving a bell as a gift has become an Irish tradition. Door greeters can hand out tiny bells to guests to ring as you process. Guests could also ring their little bells at the reception in lieu of clinking glasses.


ANCIENT CUSTOMS & FOLKLORE

• Irish wedding customs include the aitin' the gander, when the groom is invited to the bride's house right before the wedding... and a goose is cooked in his honor.

• Irish wedding superstitions that have been handed down for years - "Marry in May and Rue The Day" and "Marry in April if you can, joy for maiden and for man".

• Couples ate salt and oatmeal at the beginning of their reception: Each of them took three mouthfuls as a protection against the power of the evil eye.

• When a couple is dancing, the bride can't take both feet off the floor because the fairies will get the upper hand. Fairies love beautiful things and one of their favorites is a bride. There's many an Irish legend about brides being spirited away by the little people!

• For the same reason, it's bad luck for a bride to wear green.

• It's bad luck for a bride or the groom to sing at their own wedding.


PORTENTS* & OMENS

• A fine day meant good luck, especially if the sun shone on the bride.

• It was unlucky to marry on a Saturday.

• Those who married in harvest would spend all their lives gathering.

• A man should always be the first to wish joy to the bride, never a woman.

• It was lucky to hear a cuckoo on the wedding morning, or to see three magpies.

• To meet a funeral on the road meant bad luck and if there was a funeral procession planned for that day, the wedding party always took a different road.

• The wedding party should always take the longest road home from the church.

• It was bad luck if a glass or cup were broken on the wedding day.

• A bride and groom should never wash their hands in the same sink at the same time — it's courting disaster if they do.

• It was said to be lucky if you married during a 'growing moon and a flowing tide'.

• When leaving the church, someone must throw an old shoe over the bride's head so she will have good luck.

• If the bride's mother-in-law breaks a piece of wedding cake on the bride's head as she enters the house after the ceremony, they will be friends for life.

* Portents: a phenomenon that is believed to foretell the future, often signifying the advent of change.

Source: The Traditional Irish Wedding by Bridget Haggerty.


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