Ancient Rome weddings

The Ancient Romans threw walnuts at the Bride and Groom

The most important part of an ancient Roman wedding was the domum deductio, when the bride traveled from her family’s home to the home of her new husband, often after a staged kidnapping. The procession was public and frequently included an entourage — sometimes friends and family, sometimes random people — and, even in high-class weddings, the journey was accompanied by some extremely bawdy songs. During the domum deductio, it was customary to throw nuts, particularly walnuts. Walnuts were considered sacred at weddings, both as a fertility symbol and because the sound they made as they hit the ground was believed to be a good omen. It’s also possible that throwing nuts, which Roman children played with, symbolized the groom giving up childish things — similarly, the bride gave away her dolls the night before the wedding.
According to historians, nuts also may have been thrown by the groom after the bride reached his house, possibly as an offering to the god Jupiter, who was associated with sacred oaths such as weddings. Additionally, the Roman scholar Servius wrote that some people believed the sound of nuts clattering and children scrambling after them could drown out the sound of the marriage being consummated. It’s also possible that the Roman tradition of scattering walnuts grew from an ancient Greek tradition, in which the bride and groom had fruits and nuts poured on their heads during their nuptials.

I don't have an actual picture of them throwing those walnuts because my computer files don't go back that far but heres a facsimile of a wedding in Rome and there does appear to be one guy( second from right with red dress ) that's on his side that got hit with a bunch of walnuts and may be recuperating  !
Did he really get attacked because he was wearing a dress ?
Is this how "Pauly Walnuts " got his nickname ?
Did they switch to rice because the Roman pigeons were choking on the walnuts ?

They don't look kosher.

lol....'my computer doesn't go back that far'. <chuckle> okay.

Daily Bread wrote:The Ancient Romans threw walnuts at the Bride and Groom

The most important part of an ancient Roman wedding was the domum deductio, when the bride traveled from her family’s home to the home of her new husband, often after a staged kidnapping. The procession was public and frequently included an entourage — sometimes friends and family, sometimes random people — and, even in high-class weddings, the journey was accompanied by some extremely bawdy songs. During the domum deductio, it was customary to throw nuts, particularly walnuts. Walnuts were considered sacred at weddings, both as a fertility symbol and because the sound they made as they hit the ground was believed to be a good omen. It’s also possible that throwing nuts, which Roman children played with, symbolized the groom giving up childish things — similarly, the bride gave away her dolls the night before the wedding.
According to historians, nuts also may have been thrown by the groom after the bride reached his house, possibly as an offering to the god Jupiter, who was associated with sacred oaths such as weddings. Additionally, the Roman scholar Servius wrote that some people believed the sound of nuts clattering and children scrambling after them could drown out the sound of the marriage being consummated. It’s also possible that the Roman tradition of scattering walnuts grew from an ancient Greek tradition, in which the bride and groom had fruits and nuts poured on their heads during their nuptials.

I don't have an actual picture of them throwing those walnuts because my computer files don't go back that far but heres a facsimile of a wedding in Rome and there does appear to be one guy( second from right with red dress ) that's on his side that got hit with a bunch of walnuts and may be recuperating  !
Did he really get attacked because he was wearing a dress ?
Is this how "Pauly Walnuts " got his nickname ?
Did they switch to rice because the Roman pigeons were choking on the walnuts ?

I saw something like that on The Rifleman.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:I saw something like that on The Rifleman.

Chuck Connors in a red dress ! No freakin way !

Daily Bread wrote:

HawkTheSlayer wrote:I saw something like that on The Rifleman.

Chuck Connors in a red dress ! No freakin way !

Lol. No! No!

A wedding where they tried to have a wild party with the bride and the groom, separately.

three choices:

1. walnuts

2. dried rice ( flocks of dead birds litter your previous path

3. pinecones

birdseed

I guess they didn't have any Swedish meatballs at the reception. I'm fairly sure there were nuts at the honeymoon.