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Monday, February 24, 2014

15 Unexpectedly Barbaric Origins Of Modern Wedding Traditions

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Your stag night began in Sparta.


Your stag night began in Sparta.


Spartans celebrated a single man's last night of freedom with a raucous party (although, somewhat disappointingly, they watered down the wine to avoid a wedding day hangover).


Related: Bachelor parties in French-speaking countries are still known as l'enterrement de vie de garçon ("the burial of the life as a boy").


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You can thank Pope Innocent III for your engagement ring.


You can thank Pope Innocent III for your engagement ring.


Pope Innocent III introduced the period of waiting between betrothal and marriage in 1214, and engaged couples started displaying their commitment with a ring.


Archduke Maximilian of Austria was the first person to put a diamond ring on it, when he got all up in Mary of Burgundy's grille in 1477.


Related: Engagement and wedding rings go on the third finger of your left hand because ancient Egyptians believed the vein in that hand ran directly to the heart.


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And Queen Victoria for your wedding dress.


And Queen Victoria for your wedding dress.


Queen Victoria started the trend for white weddings when she commissioned a white lace gown for her wedding to Prince Albert in 1840. Before that, brides just wore their best dresses on their wedding days.


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Impending weddings were originally publicly announced to prevent incest.


Impending weddings were originally publicly announced to prevent incest .


The 'posting of the banns' is a Roman Catholic tradition which dates back to 1215, and was introduced so that people could speak up about potentially clandestine and incestuous marriages.


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