Discover the Origins of Many Wedding Traditions
Weddings are ceremonies during which people pledge their love to one another and agree to be united in marriage. Chances are that most of us have been to at least one wedding at some point in our lives. Maybe it was even your own. While wedding traditions vary between countries and cultures, a ceremony marking two people’s entry into marriage seems to be fairly universal throughout the world.
Weddings have also captured our imaginations. As many as 2 billion people from all over the world are believed to have watched the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton in 2012. We often see weddings as a celebration of love. Perhaps no more so than when the wedding is between two people who otherwise should not be together. One example of this is a morganatic marriage. That is when the marriage