Wedding are full of traditions. Almost every aspect of a traditional Western wedding

involves customs that may date back hundreds or even thousands of years.

However, most people have no idea where these customs or traditions come from.

They simply do them because that's what you do when you have a wedding.

Learn more about wedding traditions and their origins on this episode of everything everywhere

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Weddings are probably the events we celebrate that have the most traditions and the

oldest traditions. Today's modern weddings are really just a mash-up of

traditions that were created at different periods throughout history.

We might as well jump right into our discussion of tying the knot by understanding the origin of the phrase tying the knot.

The best that we can tell the phrase comes from a

Celtic tradition called hand fasting. The bride and the groom would literally have a

knot tied around them why they were holding hands. The symbolism of a knot implies a bond or a union. In fact, up until

1939, hand fasting was considered a legal form of marriage in Scotland. Before you have a

wedding, of course, you need to have an engagement.

Traditionally engagements had nothing to do with the bride and the groom and everything to do with their two families.

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