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HERE Now, for this week's poll...
It's June, the month for weddings and blushing brides. It's an interesting history, this idea that June is the best month to wed. Before the poll, here's a few fun bits of trivia. You can read the entire article
HERE - The month of June derives its name from Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage. It was thought that couples who married in June would be blessed with prosperity and happiness.
- During medieval times a person’s annual bath (yes, you read that right - just one really thorough bath per year!) usually fell in May or June, meaning that June brides still smelled relatively fresh. The brides would have smelled more pleasant then than before but just to be safe, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide their body odor. Hence the custom of carrying a bouquet when walking down the aisle!
- On a practical note, others chose June in order to time conception so births wouldn’t interfere with harvest work.
- Also, ancient tradition promoted it would be most unlucky to marry in the month of May because in Roman times the Feast of the Dead and the Festival of the Goddess of Chastity both occurred in May. (I doubt that husbands would be too inclined to want their new partners mourning lost loves on their honeymoon!)
So, with all of that tucked neatly into our collective mental file cabinets, let's see how an UNCLE agent embraces or flees the prospect of matrimony. The poll will reference several episodes: The Bow Wow Affair; The Apple A Day Affair; The Concrete Overcoat Affair; The Arabian Affair; The Birds And The Bees Affair; The Turfuf Affair. You can review each of them, and all of the series, at
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