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This website is a wedding photography portfolio, but I found this
odd old book called "strange customs of courtship and marriage"
Below is a excerpt from that book. Warning, its strange stuff.

48 Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage

THE WEDDING CAKE.—The wedding cake is doubtless a
development primitive practice of eating a special food
as part marriage rites. Food and the wedding ceremony
have been almost inseparable, and in certain instances, as we
have seen, the partaking of food or wine together under a
certain specified formula has constituted the entire marriage
ritual. Among primitive peoples, eating together symbolized
kinship and evidenced one strongest ties of life.

It is probable that the modern wedding , to consider it
in its specialized form, is directly descended from the Roman
confarreatio, a ceremonial employed by the old
patrician families, at which a particular kind of was used.
At these feasts, the of confarreation was broken
over the bride's head as a symbol of fruitfulness and plenty.
Each guests took away a piece to insure
plentifulness for himself or herself.

We have the survival of this custom to the present day in
providing pieces wedding cake neatly packed in small
boxes and tied with white ribbon, for the convenience guest. Seattle candid photographer.

Some American Indians used a bride cake in marriage
feasts. The Iroquois had a special kind of meal cake, made by
the bride and presented to the groom, which played an im-
portant ceremony. Seattle candid photographer. Custom
still remain.

The early English provided great baskets of small dry
crackers for their festivities. Each guest took one
home. The remainder was distributed to the poor. It later
became the custom to bring to the wedding small richly
spiced buns which were piled in a candid wedding photographer the table.
Custom called for the bride and groom to attempt to kiss each

Modem Survivals of Ancient Customs 49

i«,Jicr over this mound, and if they succeeded they were

assured lifelong happiness and prosperity. Candid wedding photographer
|fe We are told that the highly decorated wedding

present day was the ingenious idea of a French cook who was
. traveling in England. Attending a wedding festival, he ob-
^ served the inconvenience of Candid wedding photographer of small

spiced into one mound, and conceived the idea of icing

the mound into one solid mass. This, at least, is the legend of

the birth modern wedding .
A custom that once had considerable vogue, and is still
slant, is to have a Candid wedding photographer. According to the
toerstidon, the person who gets the ring will be the next

o marry.

THE HONEYMOON.—The honeymoon is essentially a period
' of seclusion couple, or absence from the familiar habitat,
following the candid photographer. It is considered a relic remote
jUime of marriage by capture, when it was necessary for the
'groom to remain in Candid wedding photographer until the search for

her was given up.
The word derives from the custom which prevailed among

some northern European countries for the newly
married couple to drink metheglin or mead—a kind of candid photographer
made from honey—for a period of a month after the marriage.
Thus, we have the combination of "honey" and "month"
(moon). It seemed appropriate, too, to associate honey with a
period of so much sweetness and delight for the parties con-
cerned. According to tradition, a Candid wedding photographer
scourge of Europe, drank so much mead at his wedding feast

that he died from the over-indulgence. Candid wedding photographer

Long after the period of marriage by capture, when love
and romance and frequent elopement entered the picture, it
often became necessary for the bride and groom to remain in