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This must be one of the most popular wedding superstitions and requires the bride to wear something associated with the four catagories.  This is to bring luck to the bride and her new married life. This tradition has been known to have been followed as far back as the 1300's.

The 12 Months of Marriage

Married in January's hoar and rhyme, widowed you'll be before your time

Married in February's sleepy weather, life you will dread in time together

Married when March winds shrill and roar, your home will be on a distant shore

Married beneath April's changing skies, a chequered path before you lies

When May blossom's flit, strangers around your board will sit

In the month of roses - - June, life after marriage will be a honeymoon

In July with flowers ablaze, bittersweet memories on for days

Married in August's heat and drowse, lover and friend is your chosen spouse

Married in September's golden glow, smooth and serene your life will go

Married when leaves in October glow, toil and hardship is what you'll know

In veils of November mist, fortune your wedding ring has kissed

Married in days of December cheer, love star shines brighter year after year

Never get married on one of your birthdays

The Bride Wears a Sixpence in her Shoe

For the Irish, it is believed that wearing a sixpence in the bride's shoe the day of the wedding will bring the couple luck and money

Never let the groom see the bride on the day of the wedding before the service

Never let the groom view the wedding gown before the wedding

Married in White, you have chosen right,

Married in Grey, you will go far away,

Married in Black, you will wish yourself back,

Married in Red, you will wish yourself dead,

Married in Green, ashamed to be seen,

Married in Blue, you will always be true,

Married in Pearl, you will live in a whirl,

Married in Yellow, ashamed of your fellow,

Married in Brown, you will live in the town,

Married in Pink, your spirit will sink.

It is bad luck for the bride to turn back once she has started her journey to the ceremony.  If something has been forgotten, send a bridesmaid, that's what they're for!

It is bad luck for the bride to see herself in the mirror once fully dressed.  Look at yourself before you have put your shoes on, or if you have to look at yourself complete, add another bobby pin to your hair afterwards.

It is good luck for the bride to travel over water on her way to the wedding.

It is goodluck for the bride to see a baby lamb on the morning of the wedding.

Sisters should never marry on the same day, or even during the same year, lest this action condemn them both to unhappy marriages.

A woman must not be married in the same church she was christened in.

Brides must not read the whole of the wedding ceremony before getting hitched, lest the wedding not come about.

 If There are cats in the house, it is good luck for the bride to feed them with her own hand on the morning of the wedding. Speaking of cats, the sneeze from one on the wedding day is said to foretell a happy marriage.

Bridal tears during the ceremony are considered lucky, but tears at any other moment during the wedding day are said to foreshadow a marriage full of them.

If the solemnity of the service is momentarily interrupted by the sound of a crying child, this should be taken as a happy sign.