Ellen - you might like to check out this website about wedding traditions and superstitions http://www.weddingchaos.co.uk/wedding-tradition-wedding-superstition-1.asp Heather Josie Morson wrote: > Hi Ellen, > > Being given a horseshoe for luck certainly became traditional, I was given > one in 1962 at my wedding, but it was not a metal shoe, it was one made from > silver faced card. My four sisters also were given their "Horseshoe's" when > they married. > > Josie > >