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this is why the bride is not told where the honeymoon would be. I think you

should tell no-one at all in the light of this and lay a false trail to the nastiest
person you know. The punch-up which may follow will be vastly amusing if you
have my sense of humour.

Why was the bride carried over the threshold by the groom? And note the

custom does not say whether she is carried like a sack of potatoes or in your
arms or what. In ancient Rome it was believed that a bride who stumbles across

the door brings all sorts of evil spirits with her into the house. Ostensibly
because the spirits enters her through the souls of her feet! Why is it always the

woman who does these things I wonder? A man seemingly is immune to such
evil spirits and able to walk around without fear even bare feet. It cannot be

from Adam and Eve for that was not really known in ancient Rome. Christianity
as a widespread faith came much later.

There is one explanation I really like about the carrying over the threshold of

your bride and that is to protect your wife's chastity. She does not want to look
too eager to lose her virginity and by picking her up she is helpless in your

strong arms (I hope). As a result the groom provides a defence for his wife's
chastity as she had to subject to force majeure so to speak. This is delightful I

as am sure you will agree. Just mind her head please. I once had a divorce case
where the wife actually alleged the groom knocked her head against the door

frame and she was suffering from headaches on the first night which he very
mean-spirited refused to take into account insisting on his rights as a married

man. Yeah well. I was anxious if she was raped or not being sort of unconscious
according to her but apparently not. She showed no signs of that in the video

they made and went at it with remarkable aplomb for a nearly unconscious
bride. The things you hear and see in law are astonishing.

Note also it is of no use against the evil spirits for the woman to carry the man. I
am also not sure if the carrying part should happen all the time or just once. It's

not a bad tradition if fact.

Flowers are thrown at the couple as a symbol of fertility. Does not matter if the
flowers are replaced with rice, peas, nuts, grains or coins! The idea is the same.

To produce offspring! How this helps I would not know. I seem to remember

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