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Tinkers were said to have a similar custom of marriage called "jumping the budget", with the bride and groom jumping over a string or other symbolic obstacle.
While broomstick weddings have been associated with gypsies, the sources that make reference to the practice tend to repeat and recycle claims. They also reflect assumptions about how gypsies were thought to behave. Nineteenth-century newspaper reports of actual gypsy weddings indicate that they took place in church.
Some Wiccans have also adopted the custom.
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