Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1902 — WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS. [ARTICLE]

WEDDING SUPERSTITIONS.

The bride should not fail to shed a few tears on her wedding day. It is an omen of good luck in the future. It is unlucky for the bride to enter frffQgq the ceremony at on® door and leave after the ceremony by another door. The bride should always cut the first piece of her wedding cake and pour out the first glass of wine for hor guests if there are not too many. If the bride drops her handkerchief on the wedding day and the bridegroom picks it up, it is a sign that in the future he will play second fiddle. It is said to be unlucky to tie shoes to any part of the carriage in which the bride and bridegroom go away, but it is lucky to throw an old shoe after the bride as she enters the carriage. In leaving the church the bride will do well to place her right foot foremost if she wishes to be happy, healthy, etc., in the future, and Bhe should always be the first to call her husband by name. After the wedding breakfast and reception the bride should be careful to throw away and lose all the pins, if there are any about her. The bridesmaids should not keep the pins themselves or they will retard their chances of marriage.