The summer months represent the peak of wedding season in the
United States. While Americans routinely decide to create their
own customs such as the recent craze of choreographing a dance
for the wedding party at the reception, we also follow customs
that have been handed down through generations. However, a
closer look at how these customs came to be may free you to not
follow tradition and save yourself some money. Many of today’s
wedding customs are rooted in the fact that weddings used to be
less about love and more about business. Simply put, weddings
were a business arrangement, and this can be seen through a
variety of customs we still embrace. Consider the following
wedding customs: The groom did not see the bride before she
walked down the aisle… …because the families feared he may not
want to go through with the arrangement once he saw her.
Weddings were often simply for an agreeable transfer of land,
and the groom likely never met the bride until the wedding day.
Likewise, the bride wears a veil…