The words “commitment” and “wedding” are very easy to pronounce but they are the most complex ones when it comes to putting them into action. In fact, possibly the first thing that goes through one’s mind is fear and then uncertainty but, well, with the passage of time things are getting comfortable.
 
Many expect to reach a certain age to find that person who fills them in every way in order to take the next step. Marriage is one of the most difficult decisions to make but one that gives you the most satisfaction (unless you are forced to marry someone you do not love) but the truth is that it requires a lot of planning.
Organising a wedding is one of the most complex jobs of all life. Fulfilling the wishes, dreams and needs of the couple is a matter of life or death for people specialised in this area but the good thing is that they take a very good money to the stock market.
 
Regardless of the details such as the rings, the arrangements, the dress and the whole list of details that make up a wedding, they have asked themselves where did all of them come from? Who invented them? Well here we have a series of data that perhaps did not know about weddings. If you want to purchase a convertible dress you can adapt to your needs, here at Lucy and Loo you will find it!
 
Let’s start with the rings
The Egyptians were the first civilisation that established the tradition of wedding rings. It is said that men gave women these rings as a symbol of the amount of trust they deposited in the woman to take care of the house and be a good wife. The Egyptians’ use of marriage rings spread to other cultures – such as Greeks and Romans – that appreciated this symbolism as well.
 
Nowadays, the wedding ring is fundamental and marks the difference between a man who appreciates his marriage (while wearing it) and who longs for his moments of singleness (the one who takes it away).
 
Engagement rings
This began in the Middle Ages, specifically in the year 1215, when the Pope announced that between having a relationship and marriage there should be a space. According to this announcement, the duration is not limited to a specific time. The number of days can be varied. People considered the Pope’s opinion and began the practise that has prevailed until now.
 
And the diamonds came after that. They say that “a diamond is the best friend of the woman” and possibly it is, but to why is this a popular way of thinking? The tradition of diamonds in engagement rings came in the year of 1477, when Archduke Maximilian of Austria proposed to Maria de Borgoña with a ring that had thin and flat pieces of diamonds in the shape of an “M”. But they were an obligation until 1947, when Frances Gerety, from the diamond company De Beers, coined one of the most successful phrases of all time “A diamond is forever” and from that moment, giving rings with diamonds is so common.
 
Wedding dress
There is no doubt that it is the greatest symbol of a wedding, without it, those stories of marriages would not be complete d. The white dress appeared thanks to Queen Victoria in 1840. In that year, she was going to marry Alberto de Saxe-Coburg and for the great event, she wore a dress that inspired what we nowadays know as “wedding dress”.
 
Flower bouquets
It did not start like an Olympic sport or anything like that, it was not always about spinsters who desperately seek to catch him to be the next one to marry. Throwing the bouquet started because the wedding guests would tear off pieces of the bride’s dress in an attempt to take something to their homes.
The flowers thrown were meant to distract the people so that the bride could escape unharmed.
 
The bridesmaids
The fact that they were dressed like the bride was to confuse the evil spirits and that these could not put their hands on the happy couple. However, during the Victorian era, fashion began to be present and from that moment, the bridesmaids and wore a different attire than the bride.
 
Today we see uniforms with pastel colours, all for the bride to continue wearing the spectacular white dress that was surely bought.
 
The honeymoon
For those who thought that honeymoons were created by hotels, travel agencies or airlines, we have to tell them that this is not the case. In fact, there are many stories about this:
 

• The one from Babylon, more than 4000 years ago, when the father of the bride gave the boyfriend honey beer that he could drink for a month (a moon).
• Among the Romans, the mother of the bride left in the bridal chamber each night for a month or a moon, a vessel with honey for the newlyweds.
• The Teutons in Germany, who supposedly started with this tradition, celebrated their weddings only under the full moon and after the event, the couple drank honey liquor during the 30 days after the wedding. This period then came to be known as Honeymoon.
• The one that is more similar to what is done nowadays is the one that comes from Norway: The honeymoon meant isolation, because when a man from this place (northern Europe) kidnapped a young woman from a nearby village, he was forced to remain hidden for a while. The only one who knew where he was, was the wedding ringer. When the bride’s family stopped looking for her, the man returned to his village.
• On the other hand, newly married couples had so many daily obligations that it was impossible for them to spend a few days or weeks enjoying a trip and their partner.

Drop the tie, or tie the knot
That phrase that simply means “to marry” has its origin in an old Irish custom called “marriage to test”, which, consisted of a ceremony in which the hands of the groom and the bride were tied as a symbol of their commitment.
 
The cake
During the Roman Empire, wedding cakes were actually bread that broke on the head of the bride by the groom in order to symbolise fertility. Nowadays, the bride and groom make fun at the multiple requests of “Bite, bite!”.