charlie813's Chocolate wedding

So I'm still on my kick (no pun intended) of researching traditions, and I just found this little.. ahem... gem

"In Anglo Saxon times, to establish his authority the groom symbolically struck the bride with a shoe. Brides would then throw a shoe at the bridesmaids to see who would marry next. Makes you appreciate the bouquet toss, doesn't it?

Throwing old shoes after the bride is a sign that authority is being transferred from the bride's father to her new husband. A variation is for the bride's father to throw her shoe after the groom as a token of his surrender of his daughter."

I think this is the craziest thing I've ever heard. Please! Nobody throw a shoe at me during my wedding!!