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Ever wondered why brides wear white, throw bouquets, or exchange rings? 🤔 The wedding traditions we cherish today carry thousands of years of surprising history, ancient superstitions, and clever political moves! From Roman brides disguising themselves as fire goddesses to Queen Victoria accidentally creating a global fashion trend, these customs reveal humanity's creative (and sometimes bizarre) attempts to ensure marital bliss.

Think you've seen it all when it comes to wedding weirdness? Think again! 🤯 From couples getting married in zero gravity to laws requiring grooms to kill blackbirds before they can wed, the world of matrimony is full of absolutely bonkers traditions, record-breaking stunts, and head-scratching legal requirements that'll make your "normal" wedding look pretty tame.

From "something old, something new" to avoiding black cats on your big day, wedding superstitions are everywhere! 🐱 Whether you're the type to throw salt over your shoulder or someone who thinks superstitions are silly, these traditions have been shaping weddings for centuries. Some are sweet, some are bizarre, and some will make you wonder who came up with this stuff in the first place!

From celebrity train wrecks to iconic movie moments, pop culture has given us some seriously memorable wedding drama! 💫 Whether you're obsessed with royal ceremonies, can't get enough of Ross saying the wrong name, or secretly judge every celebrity's ring choice, these trivia questions will test your knowledge of entertainment's most talked-about "I dos" and "oh nos!"

Celebrity weddings are where enormous budgets meet questionable decisions, and the results are gloriously entertaining! 💫 From a princess who got her gown free from a film studio, to a rock star who turned up to his own wedding in pyjamas, to the priciest ceremony Guinness has ever recorded, the famous have been doing weddings very, very differently for the best part of a century.

Cinema has never been able to leave a wedding alone. 🍿 If a film needs a big emotional finish, a family meltdown or a genuinely catastrophic day out, it books a church, hires a string quartet and lets chaos do the rest. The result is decades of wedding scenes that everybody has seen and almost nobody remembers accurately.

Ask a room of wedding guests who started the white wedding dress and most of them will say Queen Victoria. They are right, sort of. Victoria did not invent white for brides, but her wedding in February 1840 is why white went from an option for the very rich to the dress almost every bride in Britain wanted.

The word honeymoon does not come from a month of drinking honey mead. The earliest record of it, from 1546, is a joke about how quickly newlyweds stop being sweet on each other: honey now, then it changes like the moon.

"Here Comes the Bride" is the Bridal Chorus from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, first staged in 1850. In the opera it is not an entrance march at all: the wedding guests sing it after the wedding, as they lead the couple to their bedroom. Then the marriage falls apart before the night is out.

The oldest explanation we have for carrying a bride over the threshold is Roman, and it is not about luck or evil spirits. Around AD 100 the writer Plutarch said Roman brides were lifted into their new home because the first Roman brides, the Sabine women, were carried off by force. And according to Plutarch, it wasn't even the groom who did the lifting.

Eloping English couples raced to Gretna Green because it was the first easy stop over the Scottish border, and Scottish law let a couple marry simply by declaring it in front of two witnesses. No banns, no licence, no parents' consent, no church. The famous blacksmiths had no special power at all; they just provided the witnesses and charged a fee.

"Spend a month's salary on the engagement ring" is not an old tradition. It comes from advertising: a campaign for the diamond company De Beers that started in the 1930s, run by an American agency, which suggested a month's pay and later raised the figure to two months in the US and three in Japan.

It was never the bath. June brides were said to be better off than May ones because of an old Roman belief that May was a bad month to marry, which Ovid wrote down about two thousand years ago. The story that everyone had their yearly bath in May, and so still smelled fresh in June, is made up. It first turns up in a chain email in 1999.

Nobody really knows. The custom that a woman may propose in a leap year is real and old, but where it began has never been pinned down. The famous answer, a law made by Queen Margaret of Scotland in 1288, has no record behind it, and the queen it names was a little girl living in Norway.

Before it meant a restless marriage, "the seven-year itch" was an itchy skin disease, usually scabies, that people in America said you were stuck with for seven years. An advert was already offering a cure for it by 1839. The marriage meaning turns up much later, with a 1952 Broadway comedy called The Seven Year Itch, and the 1955 film of it took that meaning around the world.

In the 1950s and 60s, March was the most popular month to get married in England and Wales. It came top every single year from 1950 to 1968, and the reason was income tax: a husband got the married man's allowance for the whole tax year, however late in it he married, and the tax year ended on 5 April. Today the top month is August (14.3% of weddings in 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics), and June, the obvious guess, did not come top in a single year of the ONS monthly figures from 1947 to 2011.

The 1923 royal wedding was kept off the radio because Westminster Abbey said no. The brand-new BBC asked to broadcast the service, and the reason on record had nothing to do with the equipment: the Abbey worried the service would be heard by "a considerable number of persons in an irreverent manner", and that it "might even be received by persons in Public Houses with their hats on". In other words, the pub.

The tune of "Can't Help Falling in Love" is borrowed from "Plaisir d'amour", an old French love song with music by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini and words first printed in 1784, in a story by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. In that story the words are sung by a young goatherd on the day his sweetheart marries his rival. So one of Britain's favourite first dances borrows its tune from a song written for the man who lost the bride.