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 According to World Wedding Traditions.Pope Nicholas I in A.D. 860 declared that an engagement ring was required to seal a marriage. In his proclamation he also claimed that the engagement ring must be made of gold.which many happy couples choose to disregard today. In 1477 King Maximilian gave the lovely Mary of Burgundy a diamond engagement ring. From that day forth the tradition of a diamond wedding ring was born.

The wedding cake became a popular tradition in Italy in the 1st century B.C. according to World Wedding Tradition. The wheat used in making the cake or bread was considered a symbol of fertility. In those days cake or bread was broken over a bride's head to ensure her fertility. It wasn't until the height of Roman civilization that sharing the cake became custom. Your Wedding 101 claims Romans held the belief that eating the cake together formed a bond between husband and wife. The \"sweet\" cake was eaten to bring sweetness into all aspects of the couple's lives.

Something old.something new.something borrowed and something blue is a traditional rhyme associated with western wedding culture. It refers to items that a bride must wear on her wedding day in order to be blessed with a perfect ceremony. Something old.commonly a grandmothers scarf or jewelry.is a symbol of continuity. Something new signifies new beginnings and a blessed new life for the couple. Something borrowed.usually from a happily married friend according to World Wedding Traditions.signifies hope for the future. Something blue is possibly the oddest of the four. Blue is an ancient symbolic color of purity. In old western European weddings it wasn't uncommon for the (maternity wedding dress) bride to wear a blue band around the bottom of her (maternity wedding dress)

In 1840 Queen Victoria was married to her cousin.Albert of Saxe. This wedding.according to From Times Past.had a great influence over western wedding culture. She chose a white wedding dress and set the trend from then on. By the 1890's a white wedding dress had become tradition. During the Depression and World War II women couldn't often afford to be picky and saw it as their duty to forgo the white wedding tradition. Women often married in their best dress regardless of color.

The Germanic Goths.according to Hudson Valley Weddings.began the (flower girls dress) best man tradition in a rather barbaric way. When women became scarce in their own village bachelors would have to sneak out and capture their bride from a neighboring community. Since it would be difficult to snatch someone by themselves the bachelor would ask his best friend to aid (flower girls dress)