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Origin of the The Honeymoon Tradition and of the Word HONEYMOON
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The HONEYMOON is a tradition
which began with the
Teutonic peoples, who only celebrated weddings during the Full
Moon.
The origin of the word
Honeymoon
comes from the custom
that the bride and groom had to drink honey liquor (a fermented drink
also
known as mead honey) during the 30 days that followed the
wedding.
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Nowadays, a honeymoon
means the period after the wedding, usually
when the bride and groom go off to a Honeymoon
trip to exotic and
romantic places.
Honeymoon
trips began to become popular in England at the start of the 19th
Century where the newly married couple would travel to visit friends
and relatives who had been unable to attend the actual wedding
ceremony. Often other relatives and friends would accompany the
married couple on their journey. The popularity of
this
type of post-wedding journey rapidly spread throughout Europe.
Later in history,
around the end of the 19th and start of the 20th Century, the
type of honeymoon that we know of today began to become popular,
whereby the newly married bride and groom would a take a trip to spend
the start of their marriage alone together (usually without friends or
family) in a pleasant location. Popular ideas for Honeymoon
destinations at that time were the French Riviera and Italy, especially
Rome and Venice. which have been cosidered to be romantic destinations
for many a year.
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These days, not all
honeymoons occur
immediately after the wedding. For example, whilste over 90%
of German wedding couples have a honeymoon, not all of thse
are the traditional style which occur straight after the day of the
ceremony. In a study of honeymoons in
Germany, only 64% of the questioned brides and grooms took a trip
immediately after the wedding. However, 36%
of the couple took some time to get used to married life at
home
first before giong on their honeymoon at a later time.
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