Monday, 26 August 2013

Interesting wedding customs of different Countries

Each country has its own wedding customs. Their wedding dresses are different. Besides, some of them seem unable to understand for us, but they are all very interesting. Let us have a look!

Spain Wedding: Air stunt Training!
There is a unique ancient Marriage tradition in Spain Malda city: on the wedding day, the bride and groom being hanged upside down. If they were able to skillfully kiss in the air for a long time, they could be up. Or all the wedding guests would not be allowed to take a seat at the feast.
Danish Wedding: preparing secretly!
Danes organized their weddings in secret, because they think being openly would offend the ghost and cause their jealous. At the end of the wedding, people carried a large jar of beer to the garden. The bride and groom put their hands above the wine altar and then shattered it. The marriageable woman at presence would pick up the fragments. And the one who picked up the biggest pieces of all destined to be the first to marry, and the one picked up the smallest destined not marry for life.

Russian wedding: The kiss resolves bitter wine!
On the Russian wedding someone would shout: “Bitter! Bitter!” Whenever someone shouted, everyone else at present would echo him in unison. Then the couple would stand up kissing an affectionate kiss in the public. In a few minutes, some people would complain loudly again, the bride and groom had to stand up again with a sweet kiss to calm the crying sound of relatives and friends. Such a program in the wedding repeated at least a dozen times until the relatives and friends gave up. Originally, according to Russian custom, wedding wine is bitter, the couple kiss need to sweeten it.
Indian weddings: first abducting the bride!
Indian honeymoon is not after marriage but before marriage different with other nations. Boys will “steal” their loved one away by Moonlight and put her in the deep forest. There they will live an isolated life for one month. One month later, the two sides will go home to meet the parents. This is the Indians’ marriage trilogy: abducting, honeymoon and wedding. Then they hold their wedding ceremony. And the bride will spat on the groom’s face at the wedding, which is said the most popular way of expressing deep love.


Mauritania Wedding: fat bride is the favorite!
Moors is a major nation of Mauritania, their wedding is unique. For a long time, the daughter’s marriage is called the shot by the mother while the father can not intervene. When a young man fell in love with a girl, his mother would bring gifts to the girl’s mother to propose for marriage. If the girl’s mother agrees, they agreed to the marriage on the spot. In the eyes of Moorish, only the bride with thick waist, short neck, prominent buttocks and tall breasts is acknowledged the beauty. Obese woman is a symbol of wealth. If a young man marries an obese wife, and it is inevitable to hold a grand wedding. Relatives even far away will come to the wedding to see the bride.
Ancient West Africa Nigeria wedding: the bride should be fat enough!
Nigerian girls are the same! Once you have decided to get engaged. You have to start bingeing, the more fat the better. Because the locals believe that the fat wife will bring good luck to her man and the family. So before the marriage, if the groom feels that the bride is not fat enough, he can temporarily cancel the wedding and request the bride “fertility” first!

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