Here Come the Brides

Describes the customs and traditions connected with weddings all over the world

Grade 2-6?Costumes and customs relating to weddings around the world and across time are presented in this lavishly illustrated easy-to-read introduction. Carefully detailed pastel drawings invite examination and comparison. They show an assortment of wedding trivia from times and places as diverse as medieval Japan, 18th-century Italy, and present-day Indonesia, and cultures as unfamiliar as those of the Masai, medieval Oriental Jewry, and 19th-century Quakers and Hopis. Traditions familiar to American television watchers and readers of spring newspaper bridal sections are also included. The information has been organized into sections covering engagement tokens, wedding dresses, hair and makeup, family and friends, symbols and traditions, and oddities. Further tidbits about traditional foods appear in "Did You Know" inserts.?Kathleen Isaacs, Edmund Burke School, Washington, DC
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