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FOR TALL BRIDES September 14 im Pages The cedar chest A wedding tradition preserved by Cedar CI thai hold llfrllmr of The thr lime honored funrtion of Ing for today 5BfflnWK The old fashioned wedding Is buck And it s with all time honored traditions engagement rings organ mu cakes and some mod em adaptations such as cedar chest Many of customs and rituals which today and grooms pledge their troth are rooted in antiquity The engagement ring for example goes back more than year while another marriage symbol the wedding ring has been with us since A D Roman custom called for a man give his betrothed a ring thai was in essence a promissory note on the term of marriage contract The circle represents eternity and in the marriage ceremony ting is a pledge of fidelity Marriage lore ascribes the veil which conceals the bride beauty to man Tear that a jealous demon might Meal his beloved Others say it rep resents an early form of courtship in which the bridegroom his wife by force wrapping her up in a bridal veil to carry her off For centuries the cedar chest has been the heritage of young lovers and a legacy of their courtship according to Linda at The Lane Company During the Middle Ages wooden chests were repositories of such church and state treasures as gold silver money and religious relics More common folk used chests to store family clothing pccially the trousseau of a bride tobe As the Renaissance dawned Dalton says bridal est s became v rt works of art replete with carvings in lay work and beautiful paintings on the top and sides Sometimes ihe bridal would bear nuts of arms of the lies being united In century Italy a bride to her husband house on top or her bridal Throughout her life every imidc the chest would rema n her property unlike her lands or money which legally passed to her husband at their wedding Cedar became part of making during the century and served most as sacred material for storing and preserving ecclesiastical vestments says Soon secular chests and especially chests were mode of cedar nut or oak then lined with cedar We still make cedar lined chests this way today The custom of the bridal chest spread quickly from southern Europe northward to England and from here colonies and comments often to serve as the only real piece of furniture in a rug colonial home Settlers arriving from other parts of Europe brought bridal chests bearing all the ethnic color and design endowed by culture and tradition in ihe New World chests per formed riles of courtship and a young man announced his intentions when he gave his girl a hope chest Today says cedar chests enjoy the same widespread popularity they have known for hundreds of years While it remains a safe haven for precious heir looms cedar chest can function as a coffee table window or bed side nights a as well The Lane Company maker of the fin est quality cedar chests for of fersovcr 100 different styles of chests from the traditional foolof the bed de sign to caches foyen and Today women who value practical ity and versatility alongside romance and prize the cedar as much as their counterparts of yeiicr year Dalton says Cedar chests have a rich history of romance and tradition she adds And tradition and romance arc back in When they exchange wedding rings share the first piece of wedding cake or fill a cedar chest with their hopes and dreams of a life together couples give new meaning to old traditions A special Give each child to commemorate the day Something that they can enjoy immediately like a camera engraved jewelry or lope recorder will further re mind them of how special ihe day was when you became a family Celebrate the from your honey moon which you should lake without your children with a date for the whole familylickeisiolheiheatre event Enjoy a 7 Day SuperLlner Cruise This Fall Including Air Fare From Toronto serving travellers since Pike is per person occupancy plus US port Charges and I Registered In Panama and Liberia 235 ST GEORGETOWN 8770103 Photography Call 8772322 for an appointment