Came across ahis in a VERY round about way

**Drac** · 20th November 12, 12:53 PM

Hello all,

Was looking for bobbin lace patterns and I cam across a bridal horseshoe. Neither Amy nor I had heard anything like that so Goggled it and found this -

http://www.scottish-wedding-dreams.c...y-customs.html

Any one else heard of this?

Jim

**Grizzly** · 20th November 12, 02:17 PM

Jim if you are talking about lucky horseshoes this has been a common tradition over here for many many years. Horseshoes either real or ornamental have been given to brides as a symbol of good luck. It is also considered good luck if you find one on your travels too. Not really sure how and when it all started but am going to look into it now.

**Pleater** · 21st November 12, 03:52 AM

I was bride's maid at quite a few of my family's weddings and it was not unusual for there to be a silver horseshoe shape in the bride's bouquet or for one to be presented to her on leaving the church - it being pagan it was not really appropriate to carry it into the church but that was not realised by most.

Usually the horseshoe token was quite large and made of shiny card, embossed, or satin and stuffed, decorated and hung on a ribbon, but one was very small but of real silver. Unrecognised, it was left behind at the reception and it was thought to be lost until I heard about it some weeks later and produced it from the confetti box I had taken home with paper flowers and suchlike mementoes.

There are quite a few superstitions and relics associated with weddings, the bride should put in the last stitches of her dress on the morning of the wedding; items old, new, borrowed and blue should be taken to the church; if a sprig of myrtle is included in the bouquet than it should be taken out before it is thrown to see who will be the next to marry, and planted by the front door of the bride's new home. If it grows then it indicates a happy marriage. There are many more things taken as signs and omens.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

**unixken** · 21st November 12, 04:36 PM

When I married, I gave my bride a silver sixpence for her shoe, as a small wedding day gift, for her to complete the old-new-borrowed-blue accessorizing. Her parents found that coin among her belongings when she passed away, despite that we had divorced 10 years earlier (we stayed on good terms.)