Here are some fun wedding facts that you can use to impress your friends and family and maybe incorporate in to your own wedding!
- The bride stands to the groom’s left during a Christian ceremony, because in bygone days the groom needed his right hand free to fight off other suitors.
- On average, 7,000 couples marry each day in the United States.
- Queen Victoria’s wedding cake weighed a whopping 300 pounds.
- The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.
- In Denmark, brides and grooms traditionally cross-dressed to confuse evil spirits!
- Most expensive wedding ever? The marriage of Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum’s son to Princess Salama in Dubai in May 1981. The price tag? $44 million.
- In Asia, wearing robes with embroidered cranes symbolizes fidelity for the length of a marriage.
- Seventeen tons of gold are made into wedding rings each year in the United States!
- In the symbolic language of jewels, a sapphire in a wedding ring means marital happiness.
- Engagement and wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because it was once thought that a vein in that finger led directly to the heart.
- In Holland, a pine tree is planted outside the newlyweds’ home as a symbol of fertility and luck.
- For good luck, Egyptian women pinch the bride on her wedding day. Ouch!