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Here are some more fun facts.

61 eggs, 18 ½ cups of sugar, and 22 ½ cups of flour are needed for a wedding cake that serves 150 guests.

At a Japanese engagement party (yuino), the bride-to-be is showered with gifts from the groom’s family. She can expect cash (to set up housekeeping) and an ornate obi (kimono sash) to wear on special occasions.

According to folklore, if a single man picks a bachelor’s button early in the morning, places it in his pocket for 24 hours, and finds it’s still blue when he removes it, he’ll have a happy marriage.

It takes approximately four cups of rose petals to blanket one square foot of wedding aisle; the average 50-foot aisle requires 600 cups of petals.

Queen Victoria’s favorite flower, lily of the valley, is one of the world’s most expensive bouquets a bride can carry.