Why Do People Get Married in June?
Historically….. How The June Wedding Tradition Started 0 points The tradition of being married in June started in the 1500’s, and that tradition held fast until recent years, with brides deviating from the traditional June wedding, and planning their nuptials for other months. How did the June wedding become so popular? In the 1500’s, people took their yearly baths in May, when the weather warmed up. By June, they were still fairly clean and smelled pretty good, compared to the rest of the year. However, body odor had returned, so the bride’s carried a bouquet of fresh flowers to mask the scent of the body odor. June weddings and bridal bouquets started because people only took a bath once a year in May.
Did you know that many of the customs observed at weddings today date back to the days of the Roman Empire? For example, the month of June, which is now the favorite month for marriages, was also the most popular month for weddings in ancient Rome. That’s because June was the month of Juno, the goddess of marriage. A wedding cel
Well, I looked this up, and it seems the first month of summer holds limitless metaphorical promise for young lovers. That, and it’s good weather in which to hump like metaphorical bunnies. So that was June — dropping tons of money on gifts, traveling all over the country and breaking out the ol’ clip-on tie, weekend after weekend. Nothing but tedious church services and blurry receptions, where I vaguely remember flabby-armed conga lines of inebriated white people jerking arhythmically to The Village People. For a process that’s supposed to hold so much meaning, it sure is trite. And expensive. Tell me it’s not wack to swindle all your friends into buying you silverware, sheets and, depending on the wedding, baby clothes. I’m not sure how many more times I can enter Bed Bath & Beyond with my gonads intact. Speaking of gonads … not to cause an uproar among my large contingent of fundamentalist Christian readers, but you can have sex without getting married. Hear that? YOU CAN HAVE SEX
