_Old-Shoe throwing at Weddings._--Can any of your readers inform me what is
the origin of the custom of throwing an old shoe over the bride and
bridegroom upon their leaving the church, or the "maison paternelle" after
their wedding?
This ceremony, though peculiar as I believe to Scotland and our northern
counties, has lately been adopted at our aristocratic marriages in London,
and more should be known of its history.