Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps
Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps by Bruce Montague is a 288-page collection published by John Blake Publishing, Limited in 2014. This book presents a wide-ranging assortment of information about marriage, featuring a mix of facts, lore, anecdotes, myths, and superstitions. It explores various traditions surrounding weddings, from the reading of banns to unique customs like tossing the garter, making it an engaging read for anyone interested in the topic.
Readers will discover a variety of insights into marriage, including little-known facts about Amish weddings and the significance of items like the wooden spoon. The book caters to a diverse audience, including those who are married, soon-to-be-married, or even those who are single. With its humorous approach and rich content, this collection is designed to entertain and inform anyone curious about the traditions and quirks of weddings and family life.
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Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps is a wide-ranging, highly readable collection of information about marriage, a miscellany of facts, lore, old wives’ tales, anecdotes, myths and superstitions. From the origins of the reading of banns to marriages conducted by ships’ captains and the significance to a bride of the wooden spoon to the tradition of tossing her garter, and little-known facts on Amish weddings, here is a book in which readers married, soon-to-be-married, or determinedly single, are bound to find something to interest, amuse, astonish or even appal them. Whether dipped into by anxious groom, nervous bride, doubtful father-in-law, doting aunt, beaming bridesmaid – or simply anyone with a passing interest in some of our oldest traditions – this is a book to delight even the least romantically minded reader.
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