They’re hoping for the best, but preparing for the wurst.
A long, spherical hunk of meat isn’t necessarily on a bride-to-be’s mind the night before her nuptials.
But these superstitious soon-to-weds depend on a weirdly specific piece of protein to produce the picture-perfect atmosphere on their big days.
“Here’s your reminder to plant a sausage the night before your wedding,” Meg, a wedding content creator in the UK, stamped in the closed captions of a TikTok clip, featuring a bride burying the uncooked breakfast bite in a garden.
“It’s supposed to keep the rain away on your wedding day,” added Meg in the caption of the video, which has raked in a yummy 2 million views. “Luckily, it worked!”
And the tame game of hide the sausage seems to be working for fiancées all across Europe.
Bratwurst. Chorizo. Kielbasa — the type of log apparently doesn’t matter.
Much like the “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” bridal garb tradition — or the old wives’ tale that it’s bad luck for a couple to see one another before walking down the aisle — the act of burying a sausage to ward off bad weather is a kooky custom folks have passed down throughout the decades.
And to avoid having to hunker down in a basement like Wisconsin newlyweds Alex Schilke and Sarah Hipke — who were forced to take shelter underground while a tornado ransacked their late-June “I Do’s” — brides such as Erin McGregor, UFC fights Connor McGregor’s sister, are taking the porky precautions.
“I’m on the deck with the ‘bury the sausage’ for nice weather for your wedding day,” the blond announced to Instagram fans in April. Erin also revealed that she’d, too, be following the Irish ritual of planting the Child of Prague statuette — a flamboyantly frocked figurine of baby Jesus — in the ground as a good wedding day omen.
But foodie brides seem to be having good enough success with the sausage.
“Plant the sausage the night before your wedding … tried and tested,” raved Kayleigh, a bridesmaid, who chronicled Scottish bride Lauren sowing the meat and reaping a sunshiny wedding day this month.
“Plant a sausage the night before your wedding for good weather,” urged Eleri Anne in a separate post. “It deffo worked for me!!”
“Brides, if you’re wondering whether to plant a sausage the night before your wedding,” said Dannie Turnock, another newlywed.
“Just do it! (Even if people laugh),” she encouraged, showcasing a series of snapshots from her sun-drenched ceremony.
“They were not laughing when they saw the sun out.”
