Historical Wedding Facts:
It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-inlaw with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the 'honey month', or what we know today as the honeymoon.
The wedding ring. Why is it worn on the third finger of the left hand? Romans believed that the vein in the third finger ran directly to the heart and joined the couple's hearts and destiny.