Martha & Walter George Kluck
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Martha & Walter George Kluck
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Stuart Steele
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12/06/2014
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AncientFaces
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07/21/2015
Haven’t seen the bride holding a horseshoe before…Perhaps for good luck?
Jill Brooke
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07/21/2015
I had one at my wedding in 1970s for good luck along with my bouquet
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sweet, I will try it. Was your upwards or downwards?
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My mum had a couple of those lacey horse shoes too..
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Arr yes I had a horshoe blue n silver bouquet and a lucky black cat too lol . 1969 uk ..
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Well, doesn't the horseshoe have to be upwards to hold the good luck in? Downwards is letting it drain out. Or, at least, that's what I was told.
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Good ole Southern traditions...LOL. love them.
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Downwards can also mean "showering" good luck onto the couple.
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Yes! I guess it's all in how one reads it! Crazy superstitions --
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i have one over my doorway, mine is upwards, but I've known people who use it downwards.
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Well, you're safe with that one, Dalila! I hope that it works overtime for you!
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In the UK, in my religious tradition, the horseshoe must be open downward, to let luck out.
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My inlaws got married in 1939 in the UK and had one ,but it was turned round the other way I thought to have horse shoe that way round as in the pic was bad luck .I was given one for my wedding in 1969
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Me too, as you said Susan- hung the other way up to keep the luck in.
Becky Randall
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07/21/2015
The woman looks so much older than she more than likely is! How times have changed!
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As a flowergirl I gave the bride a horseshoe. Traditional in Scotland.
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How did this horse shoe thing begin. Do u know?
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That is a nice tradition. Glad to know of it.
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Lite lustigt är det att hon håller hästskon neråt! Lyckan skalll ju fångas in genom att hålla öppningen uppåt. Kan inte skriva deta på engelska dock....
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The horseshoe is pointed around incorrect ,its blessings are leaking
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Its quite customary for younger members of the family to give horseshoes to the bride in Ireland .
Honor Spitz
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Lots of brides have horse shoes - maybe it is more of a tradition in the UK. In Wales, brides traditionally get a wooden love spoon. I had a real horse shoe from the horse I ride, though you can buy plastic ones. You can also get horse shoe shaped confetti.
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My mum made a beautiful horseshoe for my wedding as a surprise, bound in cream ribbon with a spray of flowers and a ribbon to carry it with. I have it in my wedding keepsake box - God, it's heavy!
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My dad also put a sixpence in my shoe for luck just before I walked down the aisle - this was in 2008, mind you, so it hadn't been legal tender for nearly 40 years. What with that, the horseshoe, and my nephew dressed up as a chimney sweep for me to shake hands with, I was a very lucky bride!
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My understanding is same as yours Weebah Gee you are supposed to link it in brides wrist upright so luck doesn't run out😊
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I had horse shoe given to me when I walked back down from the alter but I don't i think I had luck in the marriage oh well better the horses keep wearing them 😉 🐴
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Hey neither Weebah Gee or I had much luck eithet😩
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Yeah Martina Smytheand Janet Van Der Krans. The horseshoe should have stayed on the horse!!! I still have the horseshoe-not the husband!!!
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I love it. Maybe the horse shoe was to hit the groom in the head in case he got cold feet and tried to take it on the lamb. (a 1940's expression.)
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Oops. Linda Virtue: You're SO right. Sorry 'bout that. I knew that but appearantly my fingers didn't when they typed it. lol
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That would be really funny, someone taking it on the lamB. Poor little lamb.
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Yes Ive seen this plenty of times...the only thing about this horseshoe is that it is upside down..meaning all the luck is falling out. Hope the marriage worked ! :)
Will Rainey
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07/21/2015
Brides always carried a satin covered horseshoe in the '50s/60s..And the men wore orange blossom in their lapel.
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Here in New Zealand we have up until maybe the 1980s, always given Brides Horesehoes for their big day, often babies or young family or friends present them to the Bride and Groom as they come out of the church or Ceremony Venue, I was given two , one by my Matron of Honours baby, and one from my husbands wee adopted brothers.Yes they are for goodluck
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Symbolic horseshoes at weddings were traditional in the UK up until the late 70's pretty much! Some confetti still has horseshoe pieces in it.
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Thanks for saving me the trouble of explaining this Stevan Chambers
Cherie McNaul
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07/23/2015
my thoughts exactly.....wonder if the marriage lasted? (respectfully, of course)
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I remember my cousins, who were quite a lot older than me, getting silver cardboard horseshoes at their weddings, can't recall whether they carried them with the bouquet or were given them by a well-wisher. The one in the photo is upside down, the luck can run out of the ends!
Angela Rickett
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07/27/2015
This was very traditional in England - usually a small girl would present the bride with one - when my sister got married in 1968 she received one.
Stuart Steele
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07/29/2015
This is Walter George Kluck marrying Martha Mary Gablonski in 1945. Walter although always known as Bill is the half brother to another post of mine--Albert Schekoske marrying Emma Marquardt. Both wedded couples never had children and both boys are my first cousins twice removed.
Loren Hoffman
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07/31/2015
Oh no! The horseshoe opening is facing down . . . all the luck is running out.
Sheree Brown
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08/05/2015
Maybe she wasnt ready for marriage just yet. was she in the family way?
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Surnames: McNaul (McAnaul)/Griffin/Buick/Moore/Gooch/Luttrell/Lantz/Claiborne/West-Howard-Boleyn/ Geisinger * Bates/Hooley/Wallace/Follett(La Follette)/Hitchcock/Price/Warren/Black/Whipple/Hill All have been confirmed through dna tests. Special surname: McQueen/McQueston(McQuistion) have been identified through the Big Y dna from a mutant gene only known to be from Scottish Highland Kings and the Connaught Dynasty.
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