Ever been to a marriage, if so you probably have seen the bride having a transparent veil on covering her face. Where does this tradition of covering up the face come from? It has some deep history behind it and I will tell it to you.
Although veils for women are often associated to the Muslim religion, it comes even further back before the religion was ever invented by Mohammed. It was invented at least three thousand years before Mohammed’s religious revolution in the middle east. Outside of the middle east the veil had became transparent and translucent. It was to remind the woman that she was beginning a new life, a life of submission toward her husband. The tradition was invented in 400 bc or something near that date and it predates the wedding dress by several centuries.
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Confetti’s everywhere in big events? Why, why in big events such as a big sport event, a world cup and a wedding why do we use it, ok we use to make the events more spectacular and the victory more sweeter. The main goal of weddings were to produce children so the crowd would throw symbols of fertility such as wheat grains. The Romans took it a bit further with, they baked the wheat into cakes for the couple. They were to be eaten together and the tradition was known as conferriatio which means eating together. After that cake eating moment, the guests would throw honeyed nuts and dry fruits at the couple, this is where we got our tradition of throwing confettis.
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Everybody knows what an engagement is, if you didn’t here is a little bit of info for you. An engagement is a promise to marriage, it is a lead up to the marriage of a promising couple. This happens after the proposal and is also used as preparation time for a marriage. It only happens when the marriage could possibly be very big. Now back to the origins of the engagement ring, which is the feature of this article.
The engagement ring was first introduced by the Venetians, it was a ring with the diamond in the middle of it, it was highly valued because the Venetians had just discovered the rare item that is the Diamond stone. It’s rareness was discovered in the 16th century. Marriage related gifts didn’t include rings until 800 BC, when Pope Nicholas 1 stated that the ring must only been given from a man to woman when marriage was the intent. He had also thought about the possible roadblocks that could come before the marriage. If the man called the wedding off, the jilted bride would keep the diamond ring but if the bride called it off, she would return the ring and be ordered to live in a nunnery.
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