Gretna Green Weddings At The Mill Forge

Information on all aspects of Gretna Green weddings at The Mill Forge

Gretna Green hotel accommodation at the Mill Forge

Information on your wedding recepetion meal at The Mill Forge

Special Offer 1 - £395
Hire of The Mill Forge for your wedding and two nights in our luxurious bridal suite with bridal treats

Special Offer 2 - £245
Two nights in our luxurious bridal suite witth bridal treats

Special Offer 3 - £150
Hire of The Mill Forge for your Gretna Green wedding

Special Offer 4 - 30% Off Rooms
Accommodation discounted by 30% on selected days

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Weddings are one of the most primeval and least changed rites of passage. Most of the customs observed today are harking back to bygone days. Everthing from the veil, flowers and old shoes to bridesmaids once bore specific and significant meanings. Today we incorporate many of the traditional olde worlde customs into weddings.

Definition of "Wedding"
Marriage by purchasewas once the preferred custom. The word "wedding" comes froom the anglo-saxon word wedd which meant that the groom would vow to marry the bride and that the barterted goods and/or currency would go to the bride's father.
The word "wedding" itself comes from the root term meaning to gamble or wager. Thus the ceremony was little more than the purchase of a bride for breeding purposes.
 

Choosing the Day & Month
Although most weddings now take place on a Saturday it was considered unlucky in the past. A Friday was also considered unlucky (Especially Friday the 13th). The famous rhyme advises a wedding in the first half of the week.

Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all, Thurdays for losses, Friday for crosses, Saturday for no luck at all.

The following rhyme advises in which month to be married

Married when the year is new, he will be loving, kind and true.
When February birds do mate, you wed nor dread your fate.
If you wed in March winds blow, joy and sorrow both you will know.
Marry in April when you can, joy for maiden and for man.
Marry in the month of May and you will surely rue the days.
Marry in June roses grow, over land and sea you will go.
Those in July do wed, must labour for their daily bread.
Whoever wed in August be, many a change is sure to see.
Marry in September shrine, 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 joys will come remember.
When December snows fall fast, marry and true love will last.