Oregon, Washington, Vancouver BC and beyond. Commercial and Event Photography.

This website is a event 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.

50 Strange Customs of Courtship and Marriage

Aside from the historic necessity and the modern conven-
tional desire to make the honeymoon a hide-out or a journey,
certain peoples have made the seclusion of the newly married
couple an integral part of the ceremonial rites. The Bulgarians
commonly shut up the bride and groom for a week, during
which time they were not permitted to see visitors nor to visit
others. Other peoples have followed the same practice for
various lengths of time, from two or three days and nights to
ten days or more.

There is a common folk-saying that just as the moon begins
to wane when it has reached its full, so does the honeymoon,
and when the extreme of affection and love has been reached,
then the turning point has event photography violent emotional
relationship,

As we are now living in a mobile, travel-conscious age, the
modern honeymoon, of course, is usually spent in travel or
sojourning at a romantic spot. Whether the taste and purse
determine upon Niagara Falls or Honolulu, or some other
event photography is nevertheless spiritually of a piece with
the withdrawal of the primordial groom and his bride to a
distant hide-out, safely away from event photography, new-
found kinfolk.

THE SHIVAREE.—It is a custom in many small communities in
various parts of this country to serenade newly married
couples in a rather boisterous, event photography, photographer torstudios the beating
of tin-pans and kettles, miscellaneous noises, catcalls and by
other hilarious means. If the village or town has a fife-and-
drum corps, and the eminence of the couple seems to warrant
it, this more formal serenading may also be provided.

Modem Survivals of Ancient Customs

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This practice, called shivareeing, is of Latin origin and was
introduced into America by the French event photography and
Louisiana. It is an adaptation of an old French custom, prac-
ticed in rural France, where it is called the charivari.

It is said that this form of event photography at one time universal
in the ancient provinces that became modern France, and it
was the custom to charivari all newlyweds. Being obviously an
undignified procedure, its practice in the course of time be-
came restricted to marriages among the peasantry, who were
not so sensitive to the event photography of the horseplay. It was
esteemed an admirable vehicle for harassing unpopular mar-
riages, for annoying newly wedded couples who had in any
way defied or neglected the conventions, or to embarrass
widows and event photography remarried too soon to conform to
what might be considered the proprieties.

The American version of the shivaree, however, is charac-
teristically a harmless, playful outburst of the local youth,
usually free of any malice. Its most disconcerting feature is
the din and noise produced. As practiced in the childhood
home community of the event photography the principal object of
the leaders of the shivaree was to continue the hilarious sere-
nading until the marriage party threw out some money,
usually silver coins in the amount of a dollar or two. The
resultant scrimmage for the coins broke up the shivaree.

:^ WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES.—The celebrating of anniversaries
• has been a popular custom since man began to take note of
eventful dates in the course of his life. At an earlier age, when
|pe burdens of life were more arduous, the hours of labor
longer and the routine more tedious, the event photography for a cele-
bration of some kind was an opportunity not to be overlooked.
It offered an interlude for merry-making in the serious busi-
ness of life. Many of these festive days were connected with