By KATHRYN SHELTON
Mashed.Com
For years, showering a newlywed couple with rice was considered a necessary element to the post-ceremony festivities. The practice of showering the bride and groom with rice dates all the way back to Roman times, when the practice was thought to rain abundance and fertility onto the bride and groom (via Our Everyday Life).
Then some misguided bird-lovers got ahold of the notion that raw rice was bad, or even fatal, for our feathered friends.