What are your old, new, borrowed and blue?

dinglefoot

And are you having a silver sixpence in your shoe?

My parents and I were discussing my old, new, borrowed and blue the other day, when I mentioned a silver sixpence and they said they'd never heard of that part of the rhyme. They got married in the mid-nineties. Is this a new development or an Americanism, or has it always been there without them realising?

My old is going to be my headdress, my new is going to be my dress, my borrowed is going to be my Mum's garter which she's said she'll lend me, and the blue is the details (birds and bows) on my shoes

Stephb1986_2

I don't have a clue not even thought about it

Faith177

It is part of the rhyme but just seems to have been passed over in recent years.

My nan found a load of sixpences when she moved so I had one for my shoe

jackieblack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_old

Apparently the "something borrowed" should properly be the undergarment of some woman who has been blessed with children! :eek:




My "something old" was my Mum's veil
My "something new" was my dress
My "something borrowed" was a heart shaped gold locket that belonged to my BF & CB
My "something blue" was my garter

Never heard of the sixpence bit

floss2

My "old" was my mum's engagement & wedding rings
my "new" was my wedding ring and gold watch DH gave me on the morning we got married
my "borrowed" was my mum's gold locket which my brother inherited when mum died
and my "blue" was my garter which was made with the blue fabric from my godmother/aunt's bridesmaid dress she wore when my parents married in 1954.

DigForVictory

My 'old' was my veil, my 'new' was the dress, the 'borrowed' was (another) petticoat & the 'blue' was the colour which we embroidered names & dates down the seam on (yet another) petticoat. (I still use that latter occasionally!)
I had a sixpence carefully taped to the tongue of my shoe.

Our family holds by having a pregnant woman as a guest to ensure fertility - one of my cousins obligingly sailed along. A family snap of us chuckling together was sent to her a couple of months after her delivery - turns out this particular 'fertility rite' had proven remarkably effective. (I got two slightly-unexpected wedding invites in consequence & bellied along in turn...)

dinglefoot

jackieblack wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_old

Apparently the "something borrowed" should properly be the undergarment of some woman who has been blessed with children! :eek:

Wow :eek: Well, I won't be following that bit by the letter then:rotfl: