According to French wedding customs, a newlywed couple usually needed to begin preparing for their wedding two or three months in advance.
White wedding dresses only became fashionable after World War I. Before World War I, wedding dresses were blue. If a family truly could not afford a blue wedding dress, they could use a blue handkerchief instead.
Georgiana now regretted more than ever disguising herself as the Girl with a Pearl Earring. The girl in that painting wore a blue headscarf, as if it were an invitation: Hey, you boy looking at the painting, why don't you come marry me?
According to the original plan, the gift packages distributed to the vagabonds contained a piece of chocolate and a bar of soap. Now, the chocolate had been replaced with sugared almonds.
There was a legend in ancient Greece about a young Greek man who, just before marrying the woman he loved, suddenly received word that his father was dying. He decided to return to Athens to see his father one last time. He promised his bride that he would return before the wedding, but he misjudged the time and did not return until three months later.
During those three months, the bride desperately believed that her man would never return, so she hanged herself and ended her life. When God learned of this, He was moved by their love and transformed the woman into an almond tree. From then on, sugared almonds represented eternal love. Wedding guests received them as keepsakes, and even guests unable to attend would receive sugared almonds sent by the newlyweds as proof of their devotion.
Sugared almonds again, along with soap and handkerchiefs packed in blue cloth pouches. If they still could not understand what it meant, then those soldiers were beyond saving.
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