{"id":47312,"date":"2016-05-18T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=47312"},"modified":"2016-05-17T12:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T16:04:58","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-wedding-etiquette-do-i-have-to-invite-the-underworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-wedding-etiquette-do-i-have-to-invite-the-underworld\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge<br>Wedding Etiquette: Do I Have to Invite the Underworld?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/first-kiss-personalized-art?source=blog_uk_160518\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-47317 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/uk_160518_Item_21415.jpg\" alt=\"First Kiss Personalized Art | UncommonGoods\" width=\"650\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a>Weddings are spirited occasions. Love. Happiness. Cake. Champagne. The Electric Slide. There was a time, though, when couples would want their big day to be anything but, taking many measures to ensure that an RSVP was not extended to evil-intentioned souls from the underworld.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to popular belief, matching bridesmaids dresses was a tradition started not by brides with a twisted sense of humor, but rather Romans who believed having certain female guests wear dresses that matched the bride\u2019s would confuse supernatural party crashers seeking to do harm to the newlyweds. If they didn\u2019t fall for that, then surely wearing a veil\u2014another spirit-deterring measure\u2014would do the trick. Finally, a lift over the threshold was thought to prevent underworld beings from turning a love nest into a haunted house. Boogie-woogies, after all, should always remain at the reception.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/first-kiss-personalized-art?source=blog_uk_160518\" target=\"_blank\">First Kiss Personalized Art<\/a> | $300.00 &#8211; 500.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weddings are spirited occasions. Love. Happiness. Cake. Champagne. The Electric Slide. There was a time, though, when couples would&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":47317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47312"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47319,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47312\/revisions\/47319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}