A Lifetime Together... with MORALES!!

The below fun-facts are in honor of my beautiful daughter and her handsome fiancee,
who are getting married in September!!   I love them both SO much!! 
Wishing them a lifetime of love and happiness together! 

In English tradition, Wednesday is considered the "best day" to marry, although Monday is for wealth and Tuesday is for health.  Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day, according to English folklore. Funny -- it's the most popular day of the week to marry!

The English believe a spider found in a wedding dress means good luck. Yikes!

Ancient Romans studied pig entrails to determine the luckiest time to marry.

Rain on your wedding day is actually considered good luck, according to Hindu tradition!

For good luck, Egyptian women pinch the bride on her wedding day. Ouch!

Middle Eastern brides paint henna on their hands and feet to protect themselves from the evil eye

Peas are thrown at Czech newlyweds instead of rice.

A Swedish bride puts a silver coin from her father and a gold coin from her mother in each shoe to ensure that she'll never do without.

A Finnish bride traditionally went door-to-door collecting gifts in a pillowcase, accompanied by an older married man who represented long marriage.

Moroccan women take a milk bath to purify themselves before their wedding ceremony.

In Holland, a pine tree is planted outside the newlyweds' home as a symbol of fertility and luck.

In Asia, wearing robes with embroidered cranes symbolizes fidelity for the length of a marriage.

Ancient Greeks and Romans thought the veil protected the bride from evil spirits. Brides have worn veils ever since.

Brides carry or wear "something old" on their wedding day to symbolize continuity with the past.

The "something blue" in a bridal ensemble symbolizes purity, fidelity, and love.

In Denmark, brides and grooms traditionally cross-dressed to confuse evil spirits!

In South Africa, the parents of both bride and groom traditionally carried fire from their hearths to light a new fire in the newlyweds' hearth.

The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, where revelers broke a loaf of bread over a bride's head for fertility's sake.

The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.

An old wives' tale: If the younger of two sisters marries first, the older sister must dance barefoot at the wedding or risk never landing a husband.

In many cultures around the world -- including Celtic, Hindu and Egyptian weddings -- the hands of a bride and groom are literally tied together to demonstrate the couple's commitment to each other and their new bond as a married couple (giving us the popular phrase "tying the knot").

The Roman goddess Juno rules over marriage, the hearth, and childbirth, hence the popularity of June weddings.

The bride stands to the groom's left during a Christian ceremony, because in bygone days the groom needed his right hand free to fight off other suitors.

Engagement and wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because it was once thought that a vein in that finger led directly to the heart.

August '13 STATS

 

St. Charles 

# Active 374

# Sold 98

MKT Time 93

Med Sold $ -- $297,500

Geneva 

# Active 150

# Sold 56

MKT Time 93

Med Sold $ -- $315,000

 

Batavia 

# Active 121

# Sold 37

MKT Time 82

Med Sold $ -- $275,000

   

Elburn 

# Active 85

# Sold 6

MKT Time 130

Med Sold $ -- $242,500

 

Sugar Grove

# Active 65

# Sold 12

MKT Time 26 (WOW!)

Med Sold $ -- $238,500

Maple Park

# Active 17

# Sold 6

MKT Time 504 (again, one listing must've skewed the #s)

Med Sold $ 260,500

And so begins another season
for this Soccer-MOOm!

    Diane MOOrales
Keller Williams Fox Valley Realty
          630.709.9882

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