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So, what are wedding customs in your country? That means, after and before the ceremony, what do you do the rest of the day/night/other time cycle?

For instance, here, guy comes to the fiancés home and brings flowers. Then, her family sends ... someone dressed in wedding dress (usually some ugly, ugly uncle) and the man is supposed to know if it is or isn't his wife-to-be. Well, after he recognizes who actually IS his partner, the couple gets blessing from fiancés parents and they go to ceremony.

After ceremony, owners of the hall the celebration/various dishes are taking place (we usually have weddings inside) welcome you by crushing a plate or a glass and the brand new wife helps the new husband clean all the mess up (because scrap glass brings luck ... supposedly).

There's plenty more, but these are the first few, just to start it up. Me and my fiancé are trying to look into other cultures to find nice things to do during our wedding :-)
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Fenixp: So, what are wedding customs in your country? That means, after and before the ceremony, what do you do the rest of the day/night/other time cycle?

For instance, here, guy comes to the fiancés home and brings flowers. Then, her family sends ... someone dressed in wedding dress (usually some ugly, ugly uncle) and the man is supposed to know if it is or isn't his wife-to-be. Well, after he recognizes who actually IS his partner, the couple gets blessing from fiancés parents and they go to ceremony.
In other countries? Even in the more civilized parts of this one we don't know this custom. :-D
That's really cool! Hmm...unique traditions...

Uh, our weddings here are fairly generic. I suppose a major one is that the bride carries a bouquet down the aisle of the church after the ceremony and is supposed to throw it into the crowd. Whoever catches it is supposed to be the next one lucky in love and marriage.
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Fenixp: So, what are wedding customs in your country? That means, after and before the ceremony, what do you do the rest of the day/night/other time cycle?

For instance, here, guy comes to the fiancés home and brings flowers. Then, her family sends ... someone dressed in wedding dress (usually some ugly, ugly uncle) and the man is supposed to know if it is or isn't his wife-to-be. Well, after he recognizes who actually IS his partner, the couple gets blessing from fiancés parents and they go to ceremony.
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Vitek: In other countries? Even in the more civilized parts of this one we don't know this custom. :-D
I think some states are trying to make it so that ugly man in the wedding dress could be your bride.
Post edited January 12, 2011 by Runehamster
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Vitek: In other countries? Even in the more civilized parts of this one we don't know this custom. :-D
Non-civilised? I'll beat you with rubber nuclear weapons you not-eastern-enough person!
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Runehamster: I think some states are trying to make it so that ugly man in the wedding dress could be your bride.
It's like Borat, only more awesome.
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Runehamster: That's really cool! Hmm...unique traditions...

Uh, our weddings here are fairly generic. I suppose a major one is that the bride carries a bouquet down the aisle of the church after the ceremony and is supposed to throw it into the crowd. Whoever catches it is supposed to be the next one lucky in love and marriage.
My girl's afraid it'll ruin her beautiful flowers :D
I have my own set of wedding customs, if someone is getting married and my family are going to the ceremony, I offer to take care of the animals and the house then lock myself in my room playing games
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Fenixp: Non-civilised? I'll beat you with rubber nuclear weapons you not-eastern-enough person!
See? Your only solution of all problems, violence. How barbaric. How eastern. I wonder whether you slam your wives with clubs to get them.
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Runehamster: I think some states are trying to make it so that ugly man in the wedding dress could be your bride.
In modern society it's quite risky custom. He could easily find his true sexuality and fall in love with the man posing as his bride.
In laws bitching at each other, people fucking in the supply closet, trailer trash fights...the usual.
I was recently at my friends wedding, and it had the touch of the country side. See, his bride comes from the "far from a town place". Anyhow, the church was one of the oldest in these parts, but also in the middle of a village with roughly 20 houses. The whole ceremony is usually typical and dull, though the priest on theirs was a mathematician [just like the couple] so he was all about some "equation of love", which was funny, when he tried adding God to that formula, and it didn't really fit. Then we got back to the hotel, where the party was. On our way, we were stopped about 10 times by something called "bramka" [gate], which consists of the local people obstructing the road, demanding payment, to let the couple through. When i say payment, i am, of course, referring to vodka. Sooo, at the hotel:

The newlyweds have to drink champagne and toss the glasses on the floor, then they have to clean it up.
Then they have to kiss, dance, and everyone can go eat. Though there is food on the table, and it switches fast, there's always a s@!tload of vodka around, the objective is to get pissed, actually. Then, when everyone is drunk enough, the dancing and games commence. Now, those vary from place to place, all over Poland, there are so many of those, i don't believe all GoGers from PL here could cover even 1/4 of them. Anyhow, from what i remember seeing, there's a mandatory dance with one of the newlyweds, and one of my friends won a bottle of vodka, in a game that involved spinning around, then quickly getting up, and trying to pin something on the bride. He collapsed 3 times, ran the wrong way at first, yet still won. There's a lot of games that i guess were supposed to mate other people into pairs, but they don't really work in the 21 century. Some involved lottery where people give away parts of their clothing [usually ties and such, so don't get Your hopes up], others involved doing a certain routine [i don't remember much from that one %_%, but i'm sure it was connected with the local folklore]. The party lasts until about 4 AM. The next day, there's an official breakfast/lunch, which consists mostly [sadly] from the things from the previous day, and again, a looot of vodka, that party is much more toned down, there are no games, just eating and treating hangover with more alcohol.
The trick with polish weddings is that not many remember the whole ordeal, hence testimonies are hazy at best.
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USERNAME:Rohan15#Q&_^Q&Q#GROUP:4In laws bitching at each other, people fucking in the supply closet, trailer trash fights...the usual.
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Same thing in my family. I mean it...occasions such as this are dreadful.
My wedding custom is to proclaim towards the wedding organisers what a fucking piece of egoistic bullcrap modern weddings have basically become, then proceed to not attend.

Doesn't help that there's still laws out there that give married couples economical advantages and such over couples who merely choose to live together.

Marriage is a fad.