PHILIPPINE BELIEFS AND SUPERSTITIONS FROM WIKIPILIPINAS

Wedding

• Brides shouldn’t try on their wedding dress before the wedding day or the wedding will not push through.
• Knives and other sharp and pointed objects are said to be a bad choice for wedding gifts for this will lead to a broken marriage.
• Giving an arinola (chamberpot) as wedding gift is believed to bring good luck to newlyweds.
• Altar-bound couples are accident-prone and therefore must avoid long drives or traveling before their wedding day for safety.
• The groom who sits ahead of his bride during the wedding ceremony will be a hen-pecked husband.
• Rains during the wedding means prosperity and happiness for the newlyweds.
• A flame extinguished on one of the wedding candles means the one whose candle was extinguished will die ahead of the other.
• Throwing rice confetti at the newlyweds will bring them prosperity all their life.
• The groom must arrive before the bride at the church to avoid bad luck.
• Breaking something during the reception brings good luck to the newlyweds.
• The bride should step on the groom’s foot while walking towards the altar if she wants him to agree to her every whim.
• A bride who wears pearls on her wedding will be an unhappy wife experiencing many heartaches and tears.
• Dropping the wedding ring, the veil, or the arrhae during the ceremony spells unhappiness for the couple.
• The member of the couple stands first after the ceremony, will die ahead of the other.
• A bride who cries during the wedding will bring bad luck to the marriage.
• It is bad omen for the newlywed couple if their parents cry during the wedding.
• Upon entering their new home, the couple should go up the stairs alongside each other so that neither one will dominate the other.
• An unwed girl who follows the footprints of a newlywed couple will marry soon.
• If a woman is widowed during the new moon, she will marry again.
• A person who habitually sits at the head of the table during meals will never marry.

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