why is june the month of marriage?
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Since it is the auspicious month here.
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In most places its the third weekend in June, but there is no "Gay Day" per se.  A few cities celebrate it later in the year.\n\nJust as side note, the reason why its in June is that it is the anniversary of the Stonewall "Riot" in 1969, one of the important events in the gay movement.
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You know, many of our wedding traditions come from strange things.  Originally weddings took place in June because that is when most people took their yearly bath and that made the wedding party more attractive by being less stinky (also easier to assemble a large group without folks fainting from stink).  The wedding bouquet also was related to our hygiene - the bride and brides maids would carry very aromatic flowers to camouflage any odor they would have due to infrequent baths.\n\nWhat I am trying to say is that many of the old customs don't really apply today, though they are still nice to observe.\n\nHaving said that, in all the weddings I have attended, I never heard that a veil indicated virginity - only the color of the wedding dress.  Pure white implies pure and virginal (which mean hymen membrane in tact - no intercourse i.e. penetration) Off white implies less than pure and darker than that implies previously married (my mother wore a light blue dress at her second wedding).\n\nSo where a veil if you want.  Where white if you want.  Your Virginity is your own private business.  Peace!
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Yes and no based on why those events took place. Marriage appears to be the way of life in the society so most of us are getting married. That is the divine way to continue the  life cycle. Divorce is a result of modern civilization. If purpose of life is to have peaceful life and then for some divorce may be a solution.
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Man, I thought you were going to say marijuana before I read the rest of marriage. Uh, no. Marriage is because of love. Not sex. People don't get married just to have sex.
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May Day was originally a Celtic thing it celebrates spring the season of fertility
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Yes, it is called Marriage.
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When you and your groom are of a complete understanding of the commitment to one another and truely in love with each-other.  What time of year/day/month is not an issue....when there is real love, the time is right!
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does it really?\n\nthink over it ....\n\nwhat is marriage all about?\n\nto me it is a proclamation of mutual love and committment.\nit is what binds two hearts and souls in love in a committment wherein they are loyal to each other and help each other in enhancing their lives and caring for each other in a special way. it is also an assurance to be with the one you love in joy and in pain. in health and in sickness. it is a bond that helps you feel belonged and know that you are loved no matter what. it is allowing someone to witness your entire life, second by second, minute by minute, and you get to do that too.\n\nand in all of what i have said above, correct me if i am wrong, where does the word, sex or gender come???\n\nif it doesn't then we can safely conclude that MARRIAGE does not harm anyone, and as a by-product of this conclusion even GAY marriages can't harm anyone.
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Or if you marry too soon and get divorced a few months later you could call Marriage a Blind Institution. hahahahh
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What's the point in getting married?
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Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day or Emancipation Day, is the annual holiday celebrated on June 19 in the United States to commemorate the end of slavery. Juneteenth has its origins in Texas, where it was primarily celebrated for more than a century. More recently, however, its observance has spread across the nation.
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There are very few societies in human history that don't have the concept of marriage.  It's the concept of marrying out of love that's the newest development.
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Anytime of the year! When you are ready, that's the right time. To get married sometimes you need to find the best time of the year due to weather consideration, honeymoon plan, etc. But a proposal? I would say anytime!
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It depends on what time of year you prefer, and what day of the week. The most popular months are: April-Oct, and most popular day is Saturday. I would say you're probably safe if you have 6-9 months to go. But, your best bet is to just contact churches and reception sites as soon as possible, especially if you're interested in a particular range of dates in the Spring and Summer months.\n\nGood luck, and have a wonderful wedding!
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Today, the tradition of a honeymoon following nuptials has, long way from its original meaning. Today's "happy ending" to the wedding event is a far cry from its much different beginnings. The word honeymoon has its roots in the Norse word "hjunottsmanathr" which was anything but blissful. Northern European history describes the abduction of a bride from neighboring village. It was imperative, that the abductor, the husband to be, take his bride to be into hiding for period of time. His friends assured his and her safe keeping and kept their whereabouts unknown. Once the bride's family gave up their search, the bride groom returned to his people. This folkloric explanation presumably is the origin of today's honeymoon, for its original meaning meant hiding. \n\nThe Scandinavian word for honeymoon is derived, in part, from an ancient Northern European custom in which newlyweds, for the first month of their married life, drank a daily cup of honeyed wine called mead. The ancient practices of kidnaping of bride and drinking the honeyed wine date back to the history of Atilla, king of the Asiatic Huns from A.D. 433 to A.D. 453. \n\nSo that leaves us with the question of where the "moon" in the word "honeymoon" originates. One piece of folklore relates that the origin of the word moon comes from a cynical inference. To the Northern Europeans the terms referred to the body's monthly cycle and, its combination with honey, suggested that not all moon's of married life were as sweet as the first. British prose writers and poets, in the 16th and 17th centuries, often made use of the Nordic interpretation of honeymoon as a waxing and waning of marital affection. \n\nCertainly we have, long way and there is a vast difference between the original meaning of honeymoon and its present-day connotation. The newer version is, of course, the more pleasant one!
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Many are: July, May and June are women's names, August a man's name.\n\nFor example:  June Cleaver was named June, and the famous playwright August Strindberg was named August (as was my geometry teacher.)  July is less common, and is often a nickname for "Julie" or vice versa.  Mae West is "May" spelled differently, and Spiderman had his "Aunt May."\n\nIf you count Playboy, women are named after every month (Miss January, Miss February, . . . .) ;)