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Carrying the bride both enables easy kidnapping and foils evil spirits. It’s a winning combination or the portal between two worlds and could easily enter a person through the soles of their feet. Therefore, the groom, to prevent this invasion, would carry the bride over the threshold to their new life.

Another version to this seemingly innocent gesture was that a wedding would have followed a kidnapping of a young girl, making them a reluctant bride. Marriage by captured was the norm during the Middle Ages. Carrying a reluctant bride over the threshold made her into a submissive wife.

Today, much, if not all, of the original meaning behind a groom carrying his bride across the threshold has been lost in modern Western weddings. It’s remarkable that the practice continues, even if a newly wed couple isn’t entirely sure why to do it. It’s almost as if a collective memory of the danger with which a threshold may be fraught remains. And after all, it’s better to be safe than sorry.

We will help you find the perfect hat or fascinator to match with your outfit, for any event or special occasion, whether it be the races or a wedding - we have an exclusive range of hats and fascinators with a full array of colours and sizes to match all outfits and requirements but if we don’t quite have what you are looking for, we are confident we will be able to get it for you.

If you have an outfit already, bring that along with you.

Pop along to one of our stores in Bromsgrove and Solihull.

We also stock a wonderful selection of shoes, handbags and accessories, to compliment your outfit. As with the fascinators and hats we can match all colours and find you the perfect look.

We want you to leave our stores with a complete outfit that makes you feel utterly fabulous!