Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1920 — Cake Broken Over Bride. [ARTICLE]

Cake Broken Over Bride.

It is an old belief that a marriage should take place when the moon is waxing and not waning, if it is to be a lucky match, and in many north country districts a strict inquiry is made as to the state of the moon before the wedding day is fixed. In the north, too, no wise bride wHI ask an odd number of guests to her wedding feast, for an old superstition has it that if this is done one of the guests will die before the year is out. In the Highlands it is taken as a terribly unlucky sign if a dog should run between the bridal pair on their wedding day; while in Derbyshire prospective brides still tell the bees of their wedding, and decorate the hives for the occasion. In parts of England and Scotland there exists an ancient custom for which reason is hard" to find, by which part of the wedding cake is broken over the head of the bride, and the guests scramble for pieces.—London Answers.