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Text document with red question mark. Some of this article’s listed sources may not be reliable. Please help this article by looking for better, more reliable sources. Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. Weddings in the United States follow traditions often based on religion, culture, and social norms. Weddings in the United States were once based out of commodity, rather than desire or love.

The word “wedding” implied the security the groom’s family provided to the family of the bride when the couple married. Brides were chosen based on their economic worth. In the 19th Century, weddings were typically small, intimate ceremonies at the home of either the parents of the bride or the parents of the groom. The announcement of the newly married couple took place at their church on the Sunday following the wedding. In the 1820s and 1830s, weddings became more elaborate, when upper class couples had wedding ceremonies similar to modern custom.

Today, couples in the United States are waiting later in life to get married. The average age for males getting married in the United States is 27 years old, whereas, women’s average age is 25. A silver sixpence in her shoe. A silver sixpence in her shoe,” dates back to the Victorian era and requires the bride to accessorize her wedding attire in certain ways to promote good luck in her new marriage.