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Bridal Traditions
The American bride sweeps down the aisle ivith all the selfsatisfaction of a modern Diam returning from the hunt with a stag slung over her shoulder.’
But this spring ritual wasn’t always the victory! celebration of the female and everything about the wedding—including the word itself—is designed to remind her that she once was, at best, a marketable commodity—and at worst. fair game for marauder.
any strong-armed
The best man, lieved to be a
from home. The
for exampe, is berelic
of the da vs when a man sirriiplv carried off a girl who had vyondered too far
husband-to-be usually brought a|long a muscular friend to fight off pursuers. The bridegrooijn had to hide out for a while until the girl’s family got tired of sea
rchjng for them. This was the beginning of the honymoon.
Of course, t! oste- togethem tr.rted the cont ween a husband
-:e tactics didn’t
eifs—and may have
nuing battle beand
his mntherm
-!The practice
especially when thought she was O'. The bethotha ccrur.-a, mong ops. The bride;
“wed”—security price of the bride
of buying a wife left a. girl with iewer bruises. But it didn’t do much for her pride.
me African tribes
worth about one
of children was
early Anglo-Saxrooms
pledge of marriage was accompanied by a
for the purchase
. From this comes cur won “wedding.” “Giving the bride away” merely represents the tinjie when the father delivered his daughter to her fiance who paid up. Among some modern tribes, how
ever, notions of [romance have persuaded the father to renounce his loot, and the bride gets the traditional gifts.
Selective Service
Some time niter he has registered, each man| will receive from his local board a questionaire. The answers provide!the basx information which the local board will use
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