Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps - Hardcover

Wedding Bells and Chimney Sweeps is a wide-ranging, highly readable collection of information about marriage, a miscellany of facts, lore, old wives' tales, anecdotes, myths and superstitions. From the origins of the reading of banns to marriages conducted by ships' captains and the significance to a bride of the wooden spoon to the tradition of tossing her garter, and little-known facts on Amish weddings, here is a book in which readers married, soon-to-be-married, or determinedly single, are bound to find something to interest, amuse, astonish or even appal them. Whether dipped into by anxious groom, nervous bride, doubtful father-in-law, doting aunt, beaming bridesmaid - or simply anyone with a passing interest in some of our oldest traditions - this is a book to delight even the least romantically minded reader.

Bruce Montague has over two hundred television credits to his name, including "Butterflies", "The Vision", "Keeping Up Appearances", "Doctors", and "Double Act". He has performed on stage in "The Phantom of the Opera", as well as with Topol in "Fiddler on the Roof" and in national tours of "Charley s Aunt" and "Oliver".