Interesting Traditional Wedding Traditions in the World
Interesting Wedding Traditions
Would you like to take a break from your wedding preparations and find out what the bride and groom in the world are going through? There are wedding customs at least as interesting as ours, just be sure.
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Interesting Marriage Traditions around the World
In its geography, traditions, religious beliefs, wedding customs influenced by the political structure, show us the world big differences.
Even you cannot believe what you would read about marriage customs. Who shocks you more; those who swearing at the groom or those who dirty the bride and walk around in the middle of the street? In fact, it doesn’t matter where the matrimony will be, what tradition, all we want solid marriage for candidates. Let’s start reading marriage traditions all over the world.
Indian marriage traditions
In the past casts and colonies system with religion tradition customs Indian weddings drift with the side has different traditions. Indian weddings are being 3 parts. The first part is before wedlock preparations and before wedding parties. They gave a name to the bride ‘’ Mehndi ‘’ in the night of henna; they are dancing and painting with henna.
The second part is Matrimony. In the union day, mother in low meets the groom. After cleaning the groom's foot, offers honey and milk to him. And the brides instead of white the bridal wedding dress wearing embroidered fabric ‘’ Sari ‘’.
The third part is the grooms and brides fire dance. They turning around the fire for 4 times and running to their bridal table. They believe that who comes and sit first his or her word will valid at home.
Chinese marriage traditions
Chinese wedding traditions apply to astrology. The groom’s family goes to an astrology expert and asking about couples. The expert prepare horoscope. If the grooms family verifies the horoscope after they send it to the bride’s family and asks to do the same.
Before the matrimony grooms family sends so many gifts and the important gift is the Tea. Brides at the wedlock wear a red nuptials dress, red shoes, and red veil because red is symbol of luck and happiness. When the bride goes out of the family house she is crying to show how much she depends on her family.
African Wedding Traditions
Africa has an interesting tradition they own the house for candidates. In some parts of continents if the family of the bride confirms the grooms request to marry their daughter than the grooms’ family gift money and peanuts. The bride shares the peanut with the groom first. Then they share peanuts with persons who helped to get them together. Also sharing peanuts with relatives, neighbours, and friends means an invitation.
On the wedding day, the bride and grooms complete the traditions by jumping over from the broomstick. It means to leave all the bad things in the past.
Russian Interesting Wedding Traditions
In Russia, the bride and grooms wear a ring to their right ring fingers on the civil marriage ceremony. If the groom or bride wears a ring to the left ring finger it means he or she has been married before or lost their second half.
The ceremony loaf is a Russian interesting and traditional ritual. Loaf cooks especially by the woman who has a happy family and who has many children. On that day the groom and bride bite the Loaf. Who bites more then he or she will be the head of the Family. Also before the matrimony when the groom comes to take a bride he will have tests from the bridesmaids. In that test, the groom must answer questions. 1 false cost a certain amount of money.
German Wedding Traditions
In Germany, guests pour rice on the bride and groom that symbolizing fertility. They believe that it how much grains of rice on the brides hair will be, that many children they will have. At the end of the ceremony, they cut the log together. It means they will stay strong together until the end.
Italian Wedding Traditions
Italians believe that getting married on Mondays brings them luck. They have an interesting ritual to come chapel and drop the loop. South Italia has a traditional dance The Tarantelle and the bride and groom must dance this traditional dance. It is believed that this dance brings them fertility. The bride and grooms bed-making by not married two girls.
Bosnian Traditions
In Bosnia, the bride’s family invites the grooming candidate and talks about matrimony with the elders of the family. After taking the decision the bride’s family passes to offer coffee. Coffee with sugar for groom means approved, plain coffee for grooms means refused.
Wedding Traditions in Pakistan
In Pakistan, the groom candidates pass a hard test from the brides elder family. In that test, the elders of the family abuse the groom to check how calm he is. If the elders approve, it means that the groom passes the test.
Wedding Traditions in Scotland
Scotland is a country with interesting traditions. Before the ceremony, the brides’ relativities mix eggs with tomato paste and pour it on her. To show that she poured with that mix, she is walking in the city. The purpose of this tradition means to be ready for bad and hard moments in marriage. Furthermore, in Scotland, the bride and grooms clean each other feet. We can see that this tradition which symbolizes humility is still in modern weddings.
Wedding Traditions in Korea
In Korean weddings, traditions have an important place for duck and goose. Once upon a time, the grooms were gone to the bride’s house on a white horse with goose. Nowadays, symbolically uses wooden goose. Another tradition is to leave a couple of wooden goose at the newly married house. It is believed that if a couple of wooden geese will be placed reciprocal, they will live happily but, if a couple of wooden geese will be placed adversely, they will fight.
Wedding Traditions in Belgium
One of the important traditions in Belgium is to embroider the name of the bride to the handkerchief. Then the family shows embroidered handkerchief to the marriage guests. Later, the bride wears the handkerchief throughout the matrimony. After the ceremony, if the bride has a little sister then the family embroiders the name of the sister and keeps it for her marriage. Or the bride can keep it for her daughter.
Wedding Traditions in Finland
Finn's brides wore a handmade golden crown. After the ceremony, the bride chooses one of the single girls from the matrimony and gifts her golden crown. It is believed that the chosen girl will be married early. In past Finns tradition, there were auctions. The groom and brides Father bargain. After determining the price, the money will be used for dowry.
British Wedding Traditions
When the bride and groom come in and out to church where will be made the ceremony they ring the bell to protect from evil spirits. Also, the guests at the marriage ceremony throw flowers. So, it is believed that the couple will have a happy family.
Wedding Traditions in France
In France, the wedding guests bring flowers to the new getting married couple. The bride and groom will drink a wine that is passed down from generation to generation, it is a France tradition.
Wedding Traditions in Israel
According to the Jewish faith in Israel, there is a tradition of embroidering fully of cloth with glass pieces, symbolizing the destruction of the holy temple at weddings in Jerusalem. To break the glass in ceremony symbolizes happiness and sadness in life.
Wedding Traditions in Bulgaria
In Bulgaria, when the groom goes to ask the girl he loves from her family, he took his friend and brings homemade whiskey ‘’Rakia ‘’ which symbolizes happiness, health and, richness and, brings the green flower bouquet of ‘’Zdravet ‘’. If the bride’s father accepts the wedding, then he will ask her 3 times. If the answer is ‘’ yes ‘’ than the bride’s family sends gifts to the grooms’ family. Also, before the wedding on Thursday cooks special bread that symbolizing a new family.
Marriage Traditions in the Philippines
In the Philippines, %80 of the people are Catholic and the wedding ceremony is showy in church. One of the interesting rituals is the veil ceremony. In ceremony one end of the veil is in the head and the second end is in the grooms shoulder. This ritual symbolizes the brides and grooms who wish to protect and care for each other and to be healthy. The Philippines can only divorce in the Vatican.
Turkish interesting wedding traditions
Turkish weddings are also interesting like all over the world. For example, in the henna night the groom will be stopped, he must hit the eggs that are in high placed tree. If the groom cannot hit the eggs, the girl's side punishes themselves. Before sending the dowry to the groom’s house, the groom steals one pillow. The youth’s chase the groom and that catches him and took the pillow will get tips.
In Afyonkarahisar, while asking for a girl to than man side offers only water. After accepting the girl’s family invites them next Friday for tea.
In Aydin, the grooms’ family meets the bride with money, rice, wheat, and sugar.
In Diyarbakir, they have tradition to break the jug. The bride, in front of the groom’s house, breaks the jug to flow like a water whole life.
In Sanliurfa, the wedding ceremony is extraordinary. If somebody didn’t wear jewellery at the wedding or if somebody didn’t come to the wedding then they can come and wear jewellery for the next 3 weeks on Fridays.
