One of England’s mellowest legends concerns a Countess of Salisbury who found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled ...
We think of the garter toss as a quintessential wedding tradition, right up there with cake-cutting and saying “I do.” Indeed, the prevailing wisdom is that the garter toss is a sacred ritual dating ...