Q 01/05

What color is a traditional Western wedding dress?

A) Red

B) White

C) Blue

D) Gold

Answer · why

B) White

White: a royal wedding in 1840 set the fashion for white gowns; before that brides simply wore their best dress in any colour.

Q 02/05

Complete the Victorian rhyme for what a bride should carry: 'something old, something new, something borrowed, something…'?

A) Blue

B) True

C) Due

D) Through

Answer · why

A) Blue

Blue completes the rhyme, a Victorian custom from Lancashire; 'and a sixpence in her shoe' is the final line most people drop.

Q 03/05

What does a groom traditionally carry his bride over after the wedding?

A) A bonfire

B) A puddle

C) A bridge

D) The threshold

Answer · why

D) The threshold

The threshold: carrying the bride over it into the new home is held to bring luck, and the word names the strip of wood or stone at the bottom of a do...

Q 04/05

What does the bride traditionally throw over her shoulder to the unmarried women at a Western wedding reception?

A) Her shoes

B) Her veil

C) A garter

D) Her bouquet

Answer · why

D) Her bouquet

Her bouquet: whoever catches it is said to be the next to marry, which is why the toss is aimed at the unmarried guests.

Q 05/05

Where is the wedding ring traditionally worn in Western cultures?

A) Index finger, left hand

B) Third finger, right hand

C) Fourth finger, right hand

D) Fourth finger, left hand

Answer · why

D) Fourth finger, left hand

Fourth finger, left hand: folklore held that a vein ran from that finger straight to the heart, though anatomy says otherwise.