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Tra­di­tions play such a huge part in wed­dings — from ‘some­thing blue’ to top table eti­quette, there are so many old-fashioned rules you can choose to take inspi­ra­tion from on your big day. I per­son­ally think every wed­ding tra­di­tion should be seen as an inter­est­ing idea to con­sider, rather than a hard and fast rule to fol­low — but it’s nice to know the his­tory behind them. Today’s guest blog is by Cather­ine on behalf of The Royal Mint! Enjoy

Coins and wed­dings — why a sil­ver sixpence?

In the run up to the big day, most brides will have the ‘some­thing old, some­thing new’ say­ing thrown their way quite a few times. It is a tra­di­tion which we are all famil­iar with, and many brides today still choose to col­lect the four items of the mantra for good luck. But did you know there are actu­ally five objects in the orig­i­nal rhyme? The full rhyme, dat­ing back to the Vic­to­rian era, is as fol­lows:  Read more…