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American Wedding Customs

American Wedding Customs
American Wedding Customs

American Wedding Customs and Superstitions(迷信) Wedding days are often considered the most important day of many people?s lives. For this reason alone, throughout the past and into modern day, numerous customs and superstitions have developed around the wedding event, in hopes of creating …The Perfect Day!?

A very common custom still honored today is in reference to a time-old saying, “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence inside your shoe”. So old is this that tracing it back to its origination is nearly impossible. Some attribute it to Victorian times, others say it is even older than that. The …old? is believed to be the friends and family attending the wedding. The …new? is represented by the couple the mselves, as a …new? union. The …borrowed? is something from the families that is to be returned, such as the bride's wedding dress, or the veil, borrowed from her own mother. Something …blue? is often interpreted to represent the bride?s purity, as in the opposite of red, which throughout time has come to represent a woman of many men. Modern day brides often wear a bit of blue material tucked out of sight. The sixpence can be any form of money, tucked into the bride's shoe, this to bring wealth, both in monetary means and love, to the union.

The veil and the bridesmaids were originated not as decorations or to allow your friends to share in your happy day, but to help confuse the evil spirits that were believed to be lurking about on this holy day. The veil, by hiding the face, particularly the eyes, confused the evil spirits. Bridesmaids would surround the bride, thus confusing the evil spirits as to who was the actual bride. In a similar belief, the best man is supposed to protect the groom from the day the wedding is first set in motion, until he is rightfully married to his would-be bride.

Colors have long played a part in the planning of weddings. While many believe that the white of the wedding dress signified that the bride is a virgin, this is not actually true in all societies. An old saying sums up the colors in a wedding very well:

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

The day of the week that the wedding is to take place is also filled with custom, hence the saying:

Marry on Monday for wealth,

Tuesday for health,

Wednesday the very best day of all,

Thursday you will soon be counting your losses,

Friday your crosses,

and if married on Saturday, you will have no luck at all!

Many superstitions also exist for right after the wedding to start the marriage off right. The new couple should borrow a coffeepot for the first three months, then purchase one together. A new broom and frying pan is needed to start the couple off on a road to happiness, never start off a marriage with these two items old, or already used. The bride should cook her new husband and herself their first meal; it should not be eaten at a restaurant or an in-laws house. Never sell the wedding dress. It can be borrowed out, or even given away, but never let money be received for the dress or the marriage will come to a quick end.

Keep in mind these are all just customs and superstitions. Marriage is a union between two people who love each other! (But it never hurts to add a little luck in whatever way you can!).

American Wedding Customs and Superstitions

Comprehension exercises:

I. Read the following statements, mark

Y (for YES)if the statement agrees with the information given in the text;

N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the text;

NG (for NOT GIVEN)if the information is not given in the text.

______ 1.The old saying “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence inside your shoe” dates back at least to the Victorian times

______ 2. A bride may wear a piece of family jewelry as the old item to represent her continued ties to her family and her old life.

______ 3.The tradition of tucking coins into the bride?s shoe is practiced in the hope of bringing wealth to the new “union”.

______ 4.Traditionally, a bride will have some bridesmaids surrounding her, which is to allow friends to share the happiness.

______ 5.An old saying summing up the colors in a wedding is used as a supporting example to the topic sentence “Colors have long played a part in the planning of weddings”.

______ 6.According to the author, brides and grooms should always keep in mind all these customs and superstitions.

II. One of the statements below expresses the main idea of the text. One statement is too general, or too broad. The other explains only part of the text; it is too narrow. Label the statements M for main idea, B for too broad, and N for too narrow.

______ 7.There are some age-old customs and superstitions in America.

______ 8.Americans usually have “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence inside the shoe” on their weddings.

______ 9.Some interesting American wedding traditions help create the “the Perfect Day”.

KEY :

I. 1. Y 2.NG 3.Y 4.N 5.Y 6.N

II. 7. B 8. N 9. M

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