Food is the center of many events and occassions in our life, and your wedding is no exception. Brides and grooms hoping to add some good fortune to their marriages have some interesting options when planning your wedding feast.
Many cultures have identified foods for newlyweds that supposedly bring good luck, fertility or other luck. The foods range from fried crickets to candied almonds to fish.
In Mexico, brides and grooms sometimes dine on fried crickets, lentil soup, and a bean, rice and agave dish. The crickets and rice dish are said to bring fertility and good luck, and the soup is associated with good luckand good fortune.
Italians serve almonds at weddings becasue their bittersweet taste represents life. The almonds are sugarcoated to wish the couple more sweetness than bittersweet.
Moroccan couples also eat fish because it's an ancient symbol of fertility.
Fish appears on the menu at many weddings! Fish and other white meats, like turkey or chicken, are common wedding foods because of old beliefs that women had whiter blood than men, and these white meats were thought to strengthen the woman's blood, so they were served at weddings to energize the bride.
Wedding cake, one of the oldest elements of a wedding banquet, also has connections to luck and fertility.
Early English cakes were fruit cakes, and brides used to count the number of raisins in their piece of cake to see howmany children they would bear.
Interesting food ideas, do you know any more?!
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