Something Blue

"Something old, something new
Something borrowed, something blue
And a silver sixpence in her shoe."

These lines to a poem had been for centuries ringing alongside brides and grooms. Sounds cute and has a real "getting married-happy" tone to it. It has been for ages carried out as early as the Roman times where brides would be clad in goddess-like drapes in blue. I have never seen in my whole life a sixpence which is actually a silver coin minted valuing six pennies but I have researched it and it's meant to bring luck. While the English kept their sixpence inside their shoes for luck, it still, I hope been carried on through time. These may all end up in the bride's checklist, but do they really get them for what they are there for in a more realistic way.

"Something old" must mean the families that will marry along with the couple. They will embrace the traditions of both families while they will give life to new ones as they go along as a wedded couple, thus "something new" is given meaning.

"Something borrowed" will be the life experiences that will be shared by the friends of the bride and groom put together.

"Marry in blue, lover be true."

"Blue" as some may not know is the color of love, modesty and fidelity and a popular gown embellishing color has by time been impaled into an all white dress.

Getting married is not simply all these trivial facts but really a threshold to the more intricate, more embellished, elaborate and mystifying "high". A moment of unexplained mix of a million emotions and expectations of the unexpected. A celebration of love, who will be best celebrated by non other than the couple who is in cloud-nine-in-love, the bride and the groom.

To me, the part they say their "I do's" signals the beginning of many simple happiness that will bring both into smiles. It will open the doors to a thousand bumps and turns that may at first bring about ripples of resistance but given the overflowing love for one another, make them strong enough to welcome change. Love is as unexpected as how our day unfolds. But given the proper delivery of care it will spring eternal. This is my wish for each and every soulmate that will find themselves in each other and take the plunge and say I do. I say, "Say I Do And Worry Later, It will All Come To You." LE