What effect you throw at the bride and groom? Nowdays hurling a shoe is likely to be an insult – but that was not the way the Victorians saw itShoe-throwing may now be mostly a political act. But not long ago,it was a common rite of marriage, writes James Crombie of Aberdeen, and who has gathered some matrimonial footwear-hurling facts into a 24-page treatise called Shoe-Throwing at Weddings.
This was in 1895,when readers may have empathised with Crombie’s opening thought: “Pelting a bride and bridegroom with stale shoes when they start on their honeymoon is a custom we are all familiar with, and in which many of us have participated.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com