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Tie the knot
Since bed frames were sprung with rope. To make yourself a marriage bed
you had to 'tie the knot'.
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Email: I have heard an alternitive definition of tie the knot. When a couple get married the bride and groom tie a knot to signify unity.
Email: Among the Germanic Goths of northern Europe in 200 A.D., a man usually married a woman from within his own community. However, when there were fewer women, the prospective bridegroom would capture his bride from a neighboring village. After the bridegroom captured his bride, he placed her on his left to protect her, thus freeing his right hand or sword hand against sudden attack. “To tie the knot” finds it origins here. To protect the virtue of this very young bride from the other lustful men, often times soldiers, the best man and future groom, would strip the poor girl and put upon her body layers and layers of clothing, types of corsets, tied with knots and only upon the day of consummation, would the groom then “free” his new wife and legally make her his property. It was a part of the ceremony, that as soon as the priest or lawyer, pronounced them married, it was not fully legal, until they consummated the marriage, which would be done immediately after the ceremony, sometimes in front of the guests. It is from this, horrible documentary, that the garter originates. You see, in order to untie all those knots, the groom would then have to rip off her clothing, and sometimes, those guests would join in. To take some of her clothes, was considered good luck for those other young lads, who so wanted a wife. Less they even become a servant to the groom. So, to fight off this rambunctious crowd, the groom would throw pieces of her clothing at them.
Email: Actually, I think the term "to tie the knot" comes from the Mexican culture. During their wedding ceremonies, the bride and groom do a special dance in which they both help in making a bow out of a piece of ribbon only using their feet in the dance, thus when you got married, you "tied the knot" in the bow.
Email: I think this term is from before rope beds. I think it comes from the fact that most peasants and poor farmers couldn't afford jewelry, so a string was tied around the finger. It is also where the use of a string around the finger for a reminder came from. It was a reminder to the newlyweds that they are taken.
Email: I'm writing to let you know that another possible origin for 'tie the knot' dates back to old pagan marriage ceremonies in which either the bride a groom or the priest or priestess performing the wedding would literally tie a length of rope into a knot, signifying their union and the eternal connection of their lives.
Email: This actually goes back to medieval and Pagan rituals of marriage or traditions in some cultures where the brind and groom have a cord tied around their wrists during the ceremony to show that they are bound together for life from that point forward.
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