I wanted to do a special article for 100th post on this blog and I wanted it be interesting and fun for everyone who visited Inexpensive Wedding Ideas Guide. It’s my sincere hope this post on the wedding tradition of something old, new, borrowed, and blue is all that and more for you; I certainly enjoyed writing it!
Almost every bride whether contemporary, country, casual, formal or anywhere in-between usually follows the tradition of having something old, new, borrowed, blue and a penny in her shoe.
Something borrowed, something blue
And a silver sixpence in her shoe.
The poem is an old English rhyme and the origin is not exactly known but was, however, recited quite often during the Victorian era.
Each item refers to a good luck token for a bride and was thought to be that if the bride carried each of the items on her wedding day that’s she’d have a happy marriage.
In the 1894 edition of The Warren Ledger, a Pennsylvania newspaper, listed it and called it a Puritan Marriage Custom.
As the poem suggests, the bride must collect the five items herself from family or friends. So, here we go, as we “collect” them one by one…
Weddings are so magical when you are planning them and carrying out the plans. But the practical side of it is, there’s a cost and here’s where the magic becomes less magical, and a need for inexpensive wedding ideas comes into the picture.