ATTIRE OF THE BRIDE

Entries

• #332

  If you try on your wedding dress before the ceremony, you will not be happy.

  Cambridge, Mass.
• #333

  The bride should wear a borrowed garter, and also a yellow garter.

  Boston, Mass.
• #334

  If a bride wear a yellow garter tied on by a girl friend, the latter will be married inside the year.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #335

  The bride should wear

  Something old,
  Something new,
  Something borrowed,
  And something blue.

  Very common.
• #336

  Wear no black at a wedding; it foretells ill luck.

  Massachusetts.
• #337

  To be married in a brown dress is good luck; black is bad.

  Bathurst, N. B.
• #338

  To be married in anything but white garments indicates bad luck for the bride, white being emblematical of innocence.

  They say that white is a heavenly hue.

  Another has added,

  It may be so, but the sky is blue.

  Massachusetts.
• #339

  White is emblematical of holiness and truth. Blue is emblematical of peace and security; bright green of true learning, as being the uniform clothing of nature.

  Maine and Massachusetts.
• #340

  A bride must not look in the glass after her toilet is complete, i. e., she must add a glove or some article after leaving the mirror.

  Maine and Massachusetts.
• #341

  It is bad luck for a bride to keep any of the pins that she used when she was married.

  Alabama.
• #342

  You will be unhappy if you lose your wedding ring.

  General in the United States.
• #343

  If the bride just before leaving the house throws her bouquet over the banisters, the one who catches it is next to be wedded.

  Philadelphia, Pa.
• #344

  If a drop of blood gets on a garment in making, it will be one of your wedding garments.