Repost This ArticleAll over the globe, marriage is celebrated in unique ways. Here’s a look at cultural wedding traditions in different countries of the world.
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Pakistani bride
A Pakistani bride's hand are adorned with henna during the mehndi ceremony a few days before her wedding. The henna is meant to bring good luck to the marriage. Photo: tela Chhe
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Korean bride and groom
A Korean bride and groom wear traditional wedding clothes. The custom of the bride wearing hanbok and groom wearing gwanbok dates back 2,000 years. Photo: markhillary
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Moroccan bride
Moroccan brides wear an elaborate kaftan and heavy jewelry. The bride and female guests decorate their hands with henna. Photo: FreriekeIntermission
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Scottish wedding party
Male guests wear traditional Highland outfits of kilts, jackets, and hose to weddings in Scotland. Photo: connor395
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Yoruba wedding ceremony
In a Yoruba wedding in Nigeria, the groom and his friends prostrate themselves to the bride's family before the bride is presented under a veil. Photo: Lola Akinmade
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Bolivian wedding tradition
In Bolivia, a wedding party enjoys a meal next to Lake Titicaca. The bride and groom's heads are doused with confetti and flower petals after the wedding ceremony. Photo: anthonyletmon
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Bouquet toss, USA
In the United States, unmarried female wedding guests participate in the tradition of the bouquet toss. Catching the bouquet is believed to bring good luck in getting engaged soon. Photo: jmayer1129
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Japanese wedding tradition
A Japanese couple perform the ritual of drinking 9 cups of sake during their wedding at a Shinto shrine. Photo: paulsynnott
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Ethiopian wedding crowns
An Ethiopian couple dons crowns and robes that symbolize marriage as a special covenant before God. Photo: runakoIntermission
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Chinese bridal carriage
A Chinese bride is presented to the groom's family in a traditional red wedding carriage. Photo: cormacheron
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Punjab mass wedding
Mass weddings in India relieve families of financial strain associated with a traditional dowry and large wedding. These brides wear white instead of the traditional Indian red wedding dress as they belong to the Christian minority population in Punjab. Photo: gopal1305
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Croquembeuche, French wedding food
In France, the traditional wedding cake is croquembeuche, a majestic tower of cream puffs. Photo: Nice Croissant
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Mexican wedding procession
A bride and her parents assemble for their street wedding procession in a small town in Mexico. Photo: presagio
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Uigher bride
Uigher brides often wear two different dresses: a white, western-style dress for the first day's "cafe event" and a traditional Uigher dress on the second day when she greets the guests as a married woman. Photo: Rebecca Layton
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Afghani wedding tradition
Men in Afganistan dance to the beat of the dhol during a wedding celebration in downtown Jalalabad. Afghan women often celebrate separately in the home of the bridal party. Photo: isafmediaIntermission
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Malaysian tea ceremony
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the bride and groom offer tea to family elders in a traditional tea ceremony. Photo: samantha-l
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Russian wedding doves
A Russian bridal couple releases a pair of white doves to represent their union and love in St. Petersburg. Photo: kimpierro
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Wedding party in Macau
We couldn't resist including this picture of a wedding party at the Wynn Hotel and Casino in Macau, the new gambling capital of the world. Hardly typical for this former Portuguese colony in China, it features French maid wedding attendants. Is it the start of a new tradition? Photo: boccaccio1
Mary Richardson
Mary Richardson is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Namibia. She currently lives in Okinawa, Japan, where she is a tour guide and travel writer. Read her stories at worldcurioustraveler.wordpress.com/.
I chose this picture because I liked her hands because it may be a sign that they were married and that tradition is a very beautiful and very special and for that I chose this picture …her hands look very nice because maybe it a sign of marriage (Pakistani bride) I love that picture because everything that I find very nice that they do all that when they want to marry … and I like the tradition of Pakistani
I like this picture because althought it seems that it so hard to do it the drawings she has in her hands are terrific I just love them and also that she is wearing a lot of jewerly and her dress is green. This kind of cloth and accesories are not so common for me, I haven´t even saw something like this before so this is awesome I would like to learn how to draw that so I could use it.
a liked very much the scotish wedding party, because it seems to be very happy, and they also seem to have fun when they are going to get married, because in other parts of the world, the parties where people get married are very sad, or it seems like someone died.I also liked very much their clothing, because they are different from other parts.I also become thinking, ¿why there are no women in the photo?, I think it is because it is no allowed, but I liked, that the wife is the first that you will see in the picture, because she is wearing a different clothe.
I just like to point out that wedding picture in Malaysia where the bride and groom offering tea to the elders; that just apply to Chinese culture. Malaysia consists of many ethnics and every each of them have their own wedding traditions.
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