Vintage WeddingRetro White Wedding VeilIn the Bible "the receiving of a shoe was an evidence and symbol of asserting or accepting dominion or ownership; the giving back the shoe the symbol of rejecting or resigning it."
Thus in Deuteronomy the ceremony of a widow rejecting her husband's brother in marriage is by loosing his shoe from off his foot ; and in Ruth we find that "it was the custom in Israel concerning changing that a man plucked off his shoe and delivered it to his neighbour." More Wedding Ideas: |
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