Weddings are big business wherever you are. They are a time-honored tradition that carries a lot of weight in every country and in any language. Read on.....
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.
In England, it is tradition for the bride and her bridesmaids to walk together to the ceremony with the flower girl scattering petals so the bride’s life will always be happy.
Egyptian weddings are preceded by the zaffia, a procession of drums, horns, dancers and other entertainers that signals the beginning of the joyous festivities.
The use of flowers and plants began in ancient times when brides carried bundles of wheat as a symbol of fertility.
Austrian brides may wear a crown of myrtle, which is the flower of life and love.
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