Confetti the Italian word for 'sweets'. In Itally sweets were thrown over the newlyweds as the left the church to bestow fertility on the couple as was the rice used by many poorer villages.
Carrying the Bride over the threshold of the new marital home symbolises medieval 'kidnapping' when they enter the marital home for the first time. If the bride entered the home with her left foot first, she would be visited by bad fortune. In order to avoid this disaster, the groom lifts her into the home.
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