Dyou still have your wedding dress /outfit

[Plantaholic]

Not heard about the sixpence Avo

[Shemadee]

The sixpence is new to me as well! My wedding veil was in the dressing up box for years. I think my dress was discoloured and binned years ago.

[Clover]

Yes I do still have my wedding dress and accessories. I haven't seen it for a good few years as it is buried at the bottom of a cupboard some where.

[Nanto2girls]

I haven't heard about the sixpence either Avo. my wedding outfit looks faded now, but I suppose it is one of those things I just can't get rid of.

[Avo]

This tradition comes from an Old English rhyme ("Something Olde, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, A Sixpence in your Shoe"), and the four objects that the bride adds to her wedding outfit or carries with her on the big day are just good luck charms. Don't stress too much about them -- they are the little tokens of love your mother, sister, other relatives, and attendants will give you at the eleventh hour (although you can give them to yourself, too). Something old represents continuity; something new offers optimism for the future; something borrowed symbolizes borrowed happiness; something blue stands for purity, love, and fidelity; and a sixpence in your shoe is a wish for good fortune and prosperity, although this remains
largely a British custom.

I borrowed this from a Wedding Website...

[Nanto2girls]

I know about Something Olde, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, it's the sixpence I had never heard of.
You see, we learn something new every day.

[Gemini]

Mine was a dusky pink Laura Ashley long dress, with that tiny floral pattern popular in those days (1975). I had it for years, and intended to ask someone to make dresses for my daughters from the material. I'm not sure what happened to it, I may have sent it to the charity shop.

[Avo]

Isn't it strange so many people know the 'something old, something new...' bit, but not the last bit about the sixpence! I wonder when it started to get dropped off, or perhaps it is geographical - some parts of the country use it and others not?

[Gemini]

I have never heard the sixpence part either.

[Daisy]

The silver sixpence is new to me as well, but I think it calls for a proper 6d (in old money). Would the equivalent today be 2 ½ pence? It might be a bit uncomfortable, especially since the ½ p would have to be 1 penny cut in two (which I think is illegal anyway). I think it's lovely that you had kept your 6d, Avo, and your DDs used it as well.