Seven New Wedding Traditions

Seven New Wedding Traditions Every Modern Couple Will Love

When it comes to planning a wedding, much goes into consideration – including the wedding day traditions that come along with the ceremony and reception. For years, it’s always been customary for the bride to wear white, with a veil covering her face and for the father of the bride to give the woman away (as well as foot the bill). However, as time has passed, things have been changing and the matrimony customs of the past don’t necessarily work for the contemporary couple.

1. Toss out the bouquet toss.

Traditional wedding games like tossing the bridal bouquet and removing the garter belt are being done less in favor of more dancing time. 2. Keep your bridal party intimate

Couples are shying away from large bridal parties and opting for a small group of friends to stand by their side as they exchange vows. Large bridal parties have their own set of logistics that can be difficult to navigate, including booking hair appointments, makeup schedules, fittings, clothing pick up and drop off and stretch limos. Keeping it intimate will save you time, money and frustration. overlays – specifically for their wedding day, to tie in their theme for branding purposes.

4. Ask guest to check their cell phones at the ceremony

While social media is on the rise for the reception, asking guests to limit their use of their cellphones during the ceremony is also becoming a growing request. Limiting guest interaction with their cell phones during the nuptials is on the rise. You’ve hired a professional photographer to capture your guests’ faces, not a sea of cell phones.

5. Focus on the guest experience

The wedding may be a big deal for the bride and groom, but it’s also a time for the guests to have fun. Some couples are booking performers – singers, dancers, bands, acrobats, live painters – all for the sake of giving their guests a night they’ll never forget. .

6. Find music that speaks to you

When it comes to ceremony music, couples are choosing songs that speak to their relationship, rather than the traditional bridal chorus of ‘Here Comes The Bride’ or a wedding march of classical music.

3. Socialize guests with social media

A growing tradition among soon to be newlyweds is using social media during the big day with hashtags and filters. Snapchat is a big trend on the rise with weddings this year. Couples are creating custom geofilters – location based

7. Don’t forget to keep some of the classics

While there may be a few changes here and there, when it comes to the style of décor or the overall look and feel of the occasion, it’s always good to keep some of the classic concepts.

STRANGE ABOUT FACTS

-Remember the Steagles! Yes, the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers did merge one season to form a team called the Steagles. It was during World War II when hundreds of football players joined the military. Desperate, with only a handful of players each, the teams combined in 1943. Not only did they merge nicknames but also uniform patterns. The team put together a respectable 5-4-1 season.

-Milton Hershey and the Titanic – Milton Hershey, found of Hershey Company, put down a $300 deposit for a first-class stateroom for the maiden voyage of the Titanic. But the chocolate gods were on his side, and he never stepped aboard the doomed ship. Hershey and his wife, who were rich after opening up their chocolate factory in 1905, spend the winter of 1911 in Nice, France. They planned to travel home on the Titanic, in a suite costing at least $3,000, but ended up returning home earlier aboard a German luxury liner, the Amerika.

-The Big Mac was invented in Pennsylvania – A McDonald’s franchise owner in Uniontown (south of Pittsburgh) created the two-burger concoction. He spent a couple of years figuring out the right ingredients for the sauce, and started selling it in his restaurant in 1967. It swept the nation the next year. You can visit the Big Mac Museum Restaurant. It is a working restaurant in North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, with memorabilia such as a 14-foot tall Big Mac.

-Yuengling invented an early energy drink. Pennsylvania residents know that D.G. Yuengling and Son is the country’s oldest operating brewery, started in 1829. What’s less known is how it survived Prohibition, from 1920 to 1933. The company thought Prohibition would be shortlived and it just needed to ride things out. It created three “near beers” with a low alcohol content of 0.5 percent. They were Yuengling Special, Yuengling Por-Tor and Yuengling Juvo. The latter was an early energy drink made with cereal grains. The company also started a dairy that produced ice cream and other dairy products.

-The nudist, free-love Battle Axes: A small religious group settled in the 1840s in northern Chester County in an area that became known as Free Love Valley. It was founded by a guy named Theophilus Ransom Gates, who thought marriage was too restrictive and people should be

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able to have sexual relations with other people. Services were held in each other’s houses, and they were known to bathe nude in local ponds. Eventually, some members were arrested on charges of adultery or fornication and the group faded away.

-Pennsylvania’s Zippo is a pop culture icon. The Zippo lighter, made in northern Pennsylvania’s Bradford, has been featured in more than 1,500 movies, stage plays and television shows, the company says. They have been prominent in productions ranging from “I Love Lucy” and “Mad Men” to “The X-Men” and “Hairspray – the Musical.” And the Zippo click sound has been sampled on songs.

-We started the first oil boom – The country’s first oil well was drilled in western Pennsylvania’s Titusville in 1859. The “Pennsylvania oil rush” continued to the early 1870s. That first 70-foot deep well, Drake Well, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

-Punxsutawney Phil has competitors – Our own Punxsutawney Phil is the most famous, but he’s certainly not the only groundhog who predicts the weather. His competitors include Buckeye Chuck of Ohio, General Beauregard Lee of Georgia, Staten Island Chuck and Wiarton Willie of Ottawa, Canada.

-You Can Thank Us for Bingo – Bingo was born in the early 1920s in and around Pittsburgh. A guy named Hugh J. Ward was the creator and began running the game at carnivals. He took it nationwide and wrote a book of Bingo rules in 1933.

-Gravity Hill in Bedford County – So-called gravity hills can be found throughout the world. These are places were objects appear to roll uphill. They are optical illusions, but that doesn’t take away from the fun. Bedford County is so proud of its hill that it will even send you a brochure with directions on finding it. The point is to go there, put your vehicle in neutral and experience the strange sensation of it seeming to slowly roll uphill.