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Happily Ever After

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Introduction:
"I'm a licenced Marriage Commissioner for my home province and, as such, I'm interested in all the traditions that surround weddings. Here are some of the traditions I've learned about over the years. Have fun."


1. Which queen started the vogue for white wedding gowns?
    Queen Marie Antoinette
    Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen Victoria


2. You'll often see shoes tied to the bumper of the car that carries the newlyweds away from the wedding. Where did that tradition originate?
    Mediaeval Germany
    Ancient Greece
    Renaissance Italy
    Anglo-Saxon England


3. Where would you find a bride going from door to door to collect wedding presents in a pillow case?
    Southern Italy
    Finland
    Wales
    Canada


4. An old Swiss tradition requires the bride and bridegroom to do something with a spade. What?
    Make a firepit to roast potatoes for each wedding guest
    Bury the first slice of wedding cake
    Plant a tree
    Turn the first sod on the lot on which their house will be built


5. In rural areas in the Czech Republic, it is a tradition that the bride wear something made by the bride's family and friends. What does she wear?
    A wreath of rosemary
    A lace kerchief
    Woolen stockings
    An embroidered apron


6. In North America and the U.K., the bride is supposed to wear or carry "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue (and a silver sixpence for her shoe)". What does each item signify?
    The family, the newlyweds, the church, the bridegroom's former girlfriend, and the bride's father who is footing the bill
    Nothing, it just sounds good
    Happiness, the future, best wishes, fidelity, financial security.
    The past, the future, the present, the marriage, luck


7. What would a wedding be without flowers? Every flower has a meaning and up until recently there was one particular flower, symbolizing purity, chastity and loveliness, which was incorporated into bridal bouquets. Which of these flowers is it?
    White rose
    White lilac
    White heather
    Orange blossom


8. In many traditional native North American weddings the bridegroom wears a blanket over his wedding finery. What does he do with the blanket?
    Enfolds his bride in it
    Burns it to signify the end of his bachelorhood
    Gives it to his mother-in-law as a thank-you gift
    Spreads it on the ground so that guests can put wedding presents on it


9. Where would you be if the bride came into the church with a lump of sugar in her glove?
    Ireland
    Greece
    Sweden
    Russia


10. A traditional Japanese bride wears a tsunokakushi, a triangular head band. Why?
    To honour her ancestors
    To cover her horns
    To keep the hair off her face
    To signify virginity


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