Wedding Invitations

I found some very interesting tidbits of information I thought you may enjoy. So for today I’m going to deviate from the theme of specific country traditions, like I’ve been talking about the past week and a half or so. 

I found out that historically veils were originally made of a thicker fabric rather than our thin see-through fabrics we use now. There were two reasons for this. First of all, it’s simply easier for us to make see-through fabric these days than it was way back when.  The second reason is so that the brides face could not be seen. Sometimes there was the fear the bride would be kidnapped by a secret admirer (or not so secret) who did not want her to marry this other guy.  In many situations like those, there would also be other women in wedding dresses and veils so the potential kidnapper would not know who the bride truly was.   

There was however a disadvantage to a thick veil.  Once in a while the groom would accidentally marry the wrong bride and wouldn’t know it until he lifted the veil. How disappointing would that be?! This was of course a nasty trick on the part of disapproving or conspiring beings.  Not a good way to start a marriage I say.

That’s all for today. Stay tuned for some more tidbits in the wedding etiquette blog.