AeriellDawn
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I don't know if there's been something like this on here before, but I was reading through a very old book of mine that is full of West Virginia folk tales, remedies, language notes, and superstitions. When I got to the wedding superstitions, well... some of them were so odd that I felt the need to share! 
They range from funny to ominous, to just plain weird!
If a woman tears her wedding shoes, she will be beaten by her husband.
If a pillow falls off the wedding bed, the one who lies on it first will die first. (So call housekeeping for a new pillow!)
Whoever sleeps first on the wedding night will die first.
As long as you keep some of the bread from your first wedded meal, you will never be in want.
If a bride breaks her wedding ring, she will be a widow soon.
If a wedding ring be lost, the couple will separate.
To awaken a bride on her wedding morning is bad luck. Let her sleep as long as she will.
For a bride to put her bare feet on the floor on the night of the wedding is unlucky.
If a bride puts on her left shoe first, her married life will be unhappy.
If you go into a vacant house, throw a ball of yarn and say "I pull, who winds?". The one you are to marry will answer you.
Put the letters of the alphabet in a pan of water under your bed. The next morning the letter of your future husband will be turned over.
When two people meet on stairsteps it is a sign of a wedding.
Walk backwards nine steps and you will see a hair the color of the person's hair you will marry.
If anyone should see the bride's veil before the wedding, her married life will be unhappy.
If the bridesmaid is older than the bride, she must wear something green, or else she may never marry.
If a kettle of hot water is poured over the doorstep which the bride crosses, there will be another wedding in that house within the year.
For good luck, the bride must wear:
Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a gold dollar in her shoe.
Two lovers will never agree if they wipe their faces on the same towel.
He who is needy when married will be rich when buried.
Hold the bride's dress on your lap for ten minutes and you will be a bride within the year.
Kiss a baby on the ninth day after its birth and the next mand you kiss will be your future husband.
Go fishing on the first day in May; a bite means a beau, a catch means a husband within the year.
Put a pea pod with nine peas over the door. If a married man comes under it first, you will not be married within the year; if a sing man, you will be married.
If you fall upstairs, you will not be married within the year.
Eat the point of a piece of pie first and you will be an old maid.
If your stocking comes down, you will be an old maid.
If you look under the bed, you will never marry. (But what about the alphabet in water under the bed?
)
If anyone sweeps around you, you will never marry.
When two young girls sleep together for the first time, if they ties their big toes together and the string is broken in the night, the one with the shortest pieces of string will be the one to marry first.
If you splash water in yourself while washing clothes, you will have a drunken husband.
If you cannot make a good fire, you will not get a good husband.
Here's a warning for the bride-to-be:
Change your name and not the letter
Change for the worse and not the better.
If a black cat take up its home at a house, the unmarried daughters will have a good chance to marry.
If a bride wears another girl's garter when she is married, the girl will be married within the year.
The number of nails left in the horseshoe you pick up will be the number of years before you get married.
On Hallowe'en if you eat an apple that is suspended on a string from the ceiling , you will marry within the year.
As many candles are left on the birthday cake after you blow once, that many years it will be till you are married.
*Phew!* That was a lot! Anyone else have any strange, funny, or just plain crazy wedding superstitions that you know of? They're kind of silly, but I think they're interesting!
They range from funny to ominous, to just plain weird!If a woman tears her wedding shoes, she will be beaten by her husband.
If a pillow falls off the wedding bed, the one who lies on it first will die first. (So call housekeeping for a new pillow!)
Whoever sleeps first on the wedding night will die first.
As long as you keep some of the bread from your first wedded meal, you will never be in want.
If a bride breaks her wedding ring, she will be a widow soon.
If a wedding ring be lost, the couple will separate.
To awaken a bride on her wedding morning is bad luck. Let her sleep as long as she will.
For a bride to put her bare feet on the floor on the night of the wedding is unlucky.
If a bride puts on her left shoe first, her married life will be unhappy.
If you go into a vacant house, throw a ball of yarn and say "I pull, who winds?". The one you are to marry will answer you.
Put the letters of the alphabet in a pan of water under your bed. The next morning the letter of your future husband will be turned over.
When two people meet on stairsteps it is a sign of a wedding.
Walk backwards nine steps and you will see a hair the color of the person's hair you will marry.
If anyone should see the bride's veil before the wedding, her married life will be unhappy.
If the bridesmaid is older than the bride, she must wear something green, or else she may never marry.
If a kettle of hot water is poured over the doorstep which the bride crosses, there will be another wedding in that house within the year.
For good luck, the bride must wear:
Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a gold dollar in her shoe.
Two lovers will never agree if they wipe their faces on the same towel.
He who is needy when married will be rich when buried.
Hold the bride's dress on your lap for ten minutes and you will be a bride within the year.
Kiss a baby on the ninth day after its birth and the next mand you kiss will be your future husband.
Go fishing on the first day in May; a bite means a beau, a catch means a husband within the year.
Put a pea pod with nine peas over the door. If a married man comes under it first, you will not be married within the year; if a sing man, you will be married.
If you fall upstairs, you will not be married within the year.
Eat the point of a piece of pie first and you will be an old maid.
If your stocking comes down, you will be an old maid.
If you look under the bed, you will never marry. (But what about the alphabet in water under the bed?
)If anyone sweeps around you, you will never marry.
When two young girls sleep together for the first time, if they ties their big toes together and the string is broken in the night, the one with the shortest pieces of string will be the one to marry first.
If you splash water in yourself while washing clothes, you will have a drunken husband.
If you cannot make a good fire, you will not get a good husband.
Here's a warning for the bride-to-be:
Change your name and not the letter
Change for the worse and not the better.
If a black cat take up its home at a house, the unmarried daughters will have a good chance to marry.
If a bride wears another girl's garter when she is married, the girl will be married within the year.
The number of nails left in the horseshoe you pick up will be the number of years before you get married.
On Hallowe'en if you eat an apple that is suspended on a string from the ceiling , you will marry within the year.
As many candles are left on the birthday cake after you blow once, that many years it will be till you are married.
*Phew!* That was a lot! Anyone else have any strange, funny, or just plain crazy wedding superstitions that you know of? They're kind of silly, but I think they're interesting!
uhhhh ok? that's a wee bit disturbing. 
I'm wearing pearls!
