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| A Cadillac decorated with a plethora of pink flowers for the newly weds. |
Cars are often decorated, and have wishes written on them, and
various streamers or trailing objects attached, in weddings of both the east and west.
A frequent wedding tradition
in the United States involves the decoration of the vehicle the bride
and groom drive take at the conclusion of the wedding ceremony.
Typically, various ribbons and streamers are attached, and words written
upon the surface of the vehicle, and often tin cans are attached to its fenders or bumpers by strings to serve as noisemakers.
Jan Brunvand's American Folklore: An Encyclopedia speculates that the decoration of the car and its equipment with noisemakers may perpetuate the shivaree, a custom in which newlyweds were given a noisy serenade; when honeymoon travel became a custom, it made a traditional local shivaree impractical, so the vehicle is given a noisy sendoff instead.
Some cars are used chiefly for special occasions and social rituals, such as limousines, and luxury cars like Cadillacs. And then, there are the cars that are designed to transport a bride and groom in specific: cars like the wedding car from China pictured below. Hours of patient labor went into the carvings which surmounted this motor car with the temple-like body in 1929.
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| The wedding car has been a tradition since, well, since there have been cars of course and in China no marriage is considered to have been fittingly solemnized until the bride and groom have ridden at the head of the wedding procession in an automobile similar to the one shown above. The special “gingerbread” body, decorated with gold leaf and hanging tinsel, represents an investment of about $5,000. |
How to decorate a car for weddings.
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