Folk-Lore/Volume 27/Marriage Customs in Cromarty
Marriage Customs in Cromarty.
All friends of the bride give her presents of bedclothes, it being an honour or mark of superiority to have many pairs of blankets. All those bidden to the "Bedding," as it is called, have to heap their gifts on the bed, and in the end there is quite an erection. Most of it however is removed the night of the wedding.
The bridegroom has to supply the bride's boots and shoes for her trousseau, and all clothes, save underwear.
The bride has to have her feet washed the day before, money put in the water in which this is done, and when the bride sits with her feet in the basin or tub, her girl friends scramble for the coin, with which they buy sweets.
The top portion of the wedding cake is kept for the christening of the first-born child.
Collected neighbourhood of Cromarty, N.B., 1914.