Jumping The Broom Wedding Ideas

Start your life together with this beautifully decorated jump broom.

Jumping the broom wedding ideas.

Leave the past single life behind and leap into a beautifully bright future. Bezeled and blinged jeweled wedding broom jumping the broom what a way to glam out just a beautiful tradition a modern day turn on african american wedding traditions. To do it the marrying couple simply lay a broomstick on the floor at their altar and hop over it together with joined hands usually following their wedding vows and accompanied by a prayer song or reading. Slaves were not allowed to enter into legal marriage so they jumped the broom to publicly signify their commitment.

The pics on this board are examples of my wedding broom design work. Whilst jumping over a broomstick together gave couples a relatively straightforward way of formalising their union it was also just as easy to undo the union. In practice this marriage ritual is pretty self explanatory. They are 34 inches tall with a satin lace handle and beautifully decorated flower arrangement.

What is jumping the broom. Wedding broom ideas ideas and more ideas about how to plan. The symbolism of jumping the broom. During enslavement black people would jump the broom as a way to unite two people into marriage.

So why do couples jump the broom during a wedding ceremony. It also signifies the freedom of a couple to choose who they love and commit to. So be careful not to leave your broomstick lying around in any doorways. If the couple chose to jump back over the broomstick and out of their house their commitment to each other was undone.