Seriously Unlucky
April 24th, 2008 @ 2:57 pm by Mrs. Tiramisu
There are so many superstitions surrounding weddings. And most are completely ridiculous. Check out how doomed the Tiramisus are:
When to Marry
Marry when the year is new, always loving, always true,
When February Birds do mate, you may wed or dread your fate
If you wed when March winds blow, joy and sorrow both you’ll know
Marry in April when you can, joy for maiden and for man,
Marry in the month of May, you will surely rue the day,
Marry when June roses blow, over land and sea you’ll go,
They who in July do wed, must labour always for their bread,
Whoever wed in August be, many a change are sure to see,
Marry in September’s shine, your living will be rich and fine,
If in October you do marry, love will come but riches tarry,
If you wed in bleak November, only Joy will, remember,
When December snows fall fast, marry and true love will last.
Strike one for the July marrying Tiramisus! No free bread for us.
Wedding Day of the Week
Monday: Brides will be Healthy.
Tuesday: Brides will be Wealthy.
Wednesday: Brides do best of all.
Thursday: Brides will suffer losses.
Friday: Brides will suffer crosses.
Saturday: Brides will have no luck at all.
Strike two! With Saturday being the most popular day to wed, at least there are a lot of unlucky couples out there with us. Friday is not looking so hot either. I wonder what happens to Sunday brides- left out of the fun because of the rhyme scheme.
Mirrors
It is considered good luck for the fully attired Bride to glance in her mirror just once before leaving for her wedding, but it is bad luck to look in the mirror after she has left the bedroom to commence her journey to the ceremony.
I’m definitely out on this one. I’ll be checking myself out all day long 
Wedding Dress
Married in white, you have chosen alright.
Married in green, ashamed to be seen.
Married in red, You will wish yourself dead.
Married in blue, you will always be true
Married in yellow, ashamed of your fellow.
Married in black, you will wish yourself back.
Married in pink, of you he’ll think.
At least I picked “alright”. Good to know.
Any Wednesday in December, blue dress wearing, mirror shy brides out there?
Best of luck to the rest of you
Source of totally valuable advice: here
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20 Responses to “Seriously Unlucky”
I do believe I would be considered the most Ill-fated bride of them all, we’re getting married Friday the 13th of June! We’d originally planned for the 14th, and had begun booking, but our reception site wasn’t available ANY Saturdays in June, so instead of moving all the vendors we’d already booked to a different week, we just moved the wedding up a day. Maybe I should replace my BMs with black cats, and pew decorations with tulle covered ladders to walk under?
I love this and have never seen it before! How funny:) Who really gets married on a Monday-Wednesday anyway? At least I did alright by picking June and a ivory (Is that close enough to white or will something odd happen?)!
I do know a nurse who “married in blue” because she wore white every day to work, and she’s been married for 30+ years, so maybe there’s something to that.
But I was a Friday July bride, myself, and I was definitely checking what I looked like in the church right before I walked up the aisle. Three strikes!
I like to add my own rhymes to make them all bad (since I’m being married in a Saturday on May and making my own cake - more bad luck)
Married in June - Death can’t come too soon.
Well considering I was married on a TUESDAY in SEPTEMBER I should be wealthy and rich. Obviously these sayings came before the high gas prices!
Ooh, ooh! I’m getting married on a TUESDAY (bride will be wealthy) — it’s a destination wedding, so days of the week don’t really matter — in December, and my girls are wearing blue, but not me…so I could hijack one of their BM gowns for myself if it means meeting all the lucky requirements of these old sayings! As for the mirror thing, though, no way. I’m paying people to make me look good, and I want to see it!
Hmm, Saturday, June, in blue. But according to my mom it’s not a “lucky” day to marry on, based on some Chinese calendar thing.
So we’re doing the legal day on a better date, which will probably be a Friday in May. Hmm, I’m not sure what it means ‘to suffer crosses’, but it doesn’t sound like fun.
Looks like I’m screwed by one culture or the other on both dates =P
I’m a may saturday bride —
I will have no luck and I will RUE the day!?!? COME ON… isn’t it to be the best day of my life?
Ahhh man~~ (I am in white though)
This is hilarious - I’ve never heard these before.
I got married in green(for glowing), on a Saturday, in April… Hey, I can always try re-calculating according to the Jewish calendar…
Married in May? Hip Hip Hooray!
New Years Eve falls on Wednesday, December 31st, so I guess I’m doing ok. What a lucky coincidence!
lol..so ALL chinese brides are wishing for death??? damn!
I’m a Friday December bride, wearing ivory. Don’t know what that means.
But red is the traditional color in Asian weddings … they’re not all ill-fated.
This may not be a big deal to some, but that website is Scottish and NOT American! So I don’t think those are American superstitions.
Check this out instead:
http://wintersteel.homestead.com/Weddings.html
Too Funny!
I was a Sunday in November bride who wore light blue and checked myself in the mirror of our bathroom trailer before the ceremony, because I had to hide in there so my husband could walk by without seeing me! Classy, right? =)
At least I wore blue.
LOL! I will also have to labour for my bread, Miss T. But it’s worth it for, like, a good crusty sourdough with butter.
Mrs. Tiramisu, Annapolis, MD/Maine
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Ugh. As a July bride… That poem sucks!