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I suspect it’s got something to do with the old Romany marriage ritual. The couple would hold hands and jump over a heap of gorse, otherwise known as broom, which is a yellow-flowering bushy plant, and then they’d be declared married. The gipsies were doing this in the 20th century, and maybe still do.
