Forgotten Wedding Etiquette - Some Interesting Facts

Even in the present day world this etiquette still exists. We have known this custom even before the Victorian era. They are best known for their edification, culture, astuteness, elegance and style.


The modus operandi of who should shell out for the expenses of the wedding has undergone a very minor change , even though the olden customs still subsist in the present day world. As in today’s world the groom and his bride earn their own living and thus are able to sponsor and host their own wedding.

On social elegances, some Victorian wedding styles, still survives, as in the bridesmaids and groomsmen on the wedding catch and throw the bouquet. This is the custom generally followed by them

The tipping on which the wedding etiquette is a custom practiced even in most parts of the European countries. But as time passed by the tipping of a hat to recognize an individual or bless or greet a newly married couple is almost become an outdated style.

One among the basis is that, wearing a hat is considered an old fashioned and this was suggested by one of the etiquette processionals. So thus if there is no such professional how would one decide on the fashions and trends.

The formal dressing of Americans does not include a bonnet, but the Europeans include and consider the bonnet an important thing to be worn. Thus this serves as a cause as to why the Europeans, tipping on wedding etiquette is still practiced.

The etiquette on wedding tipping is thus not a big deal to be considered these days in the American society. Of course, the books available on wedding etiquette do not reveal anything about the tipping nor nothing is revealed even about the old tradition of the American culture.

But some couples desire that their guests should go about the wedding etiquette tipping and practice them. These duos are the ones who want to celebrate their function with a wedding theme as in the Victorian era. During 1950’s the Casablanca theme which fashioned from these years necessitates a bonnet to be worn to have a complete ensemble.

Apart from the etiquette on tipping, the other vanished wedding etiquette is that choosing the bride’s friends younger than the bride and asking them to wear similar clothes to that of the original bride.

Everything is lost in the present day world. The etiquette on tipping is fully vanished. Brides now opt for the maids who are older than they are or sometimes even to the extent of them being married too.
This practice is not being a scorn today but since the time when the tipping on wedding etiquette is practiced.

The cause behind this is nothing but the Victorian era came from the previous custom that the evil spirit is tasked to kidnap brides on the marriage day so that , that person can take himself the bride before she gets married to the groom. These maids ensnare the kidnappers and confuse them and put them in a dilemma as to who is the original bride.

The style has been conceded on from generation to generation as it evolved now is the etiquette we practice in today’s wedding. According to the etiquette professionals this has been followed and forgotten as people, in the recent times have become more fashionable and less superstitious. These days the bride can now have her sibling or her best pal by her side on the special occasion.


There are still loads of things that have to undergo a major change to robust our current style and civilization. Even few of the modern practice has become oblates as the way the other practices vanished.