Marriages and Pregnant Women Don't Mix

Last Saturday, I attended M & S's wedding while I was 8 months pregnant. Of course, at the time, I didn't know it was a bad thing to do. According to the Chinese beliefs, a pregnant woman isn't allowed to attend weddings. The reason behind this is because both weddings and pregnancy are such good news, the pregnant woman could take away some of the "goodness" of the wedding just by being present - or something along those lines.

Well, M and S are hardly the superstitious type and neither am I. During my wedding, my matron of honour was pregnant when she assisted me at my wedding and surely that's got to be worse than having a pregnant woman present as a guest. I vaguely recall getting the hint that all was not great with the fact that I'd chosen a pregnant woman but the tones were quite subtle so I chose to ignore it. CS is one of my closest friends in this region and there was no way I was going to have my wedding without her.

Superstitions are so tedious, I really wonder why people make such a fuss out of them? I could easily make up my own right here and say that the positiveness of pregnancy will make the married couple more bountiful. In fact, the more pregnant women present at the wedding the better!

Just to nail the point home, I can add a few experiences I've noticed. I've often heard of many couples having trouble getting pregnant, but hubby and I were able to get pregnant almost as soon as we started trying! Thanks CS! To increase the sample size of my little study of one... A little earlier this year, I attended B & C's wedding not long after we'd discovered I was pregnant. Well guess what? C's now pregnant with their first baby! Now how's that for good vibrations?