Reese Barcelon
- Many people prefer to stand out and be unique among everyone else – especially during their Wedding.
- A lot of countries have made themselves stand out by creating their own wedding traditions which are believed to bring good fortune to the couple.
A wedding is a much-awaited event in every person’s life as it only happens once. Although there are a lot of couples who like to renew their vows, nothing beats the first time, isn’t it?
Usually, couples add something unique to their special occasion to make it more memorable and have a one-of-a-kind wedding. Sometimes, they do this by incorporating a unique theme for their wedding. While there are some who prefers to have their ‘special tradition’ before the wedding to preserve the holiness of the ceremony.
In the Philippines, a unique wedding tradition that usually happens is the releasing of the doves. If you have gone to a Filipino wedding before, you surely have seen how the newlyweds release the doves.
But did you know that the Philippines is not the only country which has a unique wedding tradition? To prove it, here are the nine weird wedding traditions you should know!
- Dissecting before Wedding
For the Daur people who live in Chinese Inner Mongolia, couples are required to kill a chicken and inspect its liver to see whether they can already set a date for their marriage.
If the chicken’s liver looks good, it means they can do as they wish.
- Dental Check
In Fiji, if a man already wants to see his bride walking down the aisle, he still needs to impress the woman’s father. Well, the man only needs to get the bride’s father a whale’s tooth.
- One Last Cry
Usually, crying people can only be seen at funerals. The only time you’ll see a family member cry is when the bride is already at the altar and saying her vows.
But in a Chinese Tujia wedding tradition, the bride and all female members of the family crying together is pretty much normal. Some people might think that it somewhat contradicts the mood of the occasion, the natives believe that it can create a harmony said to be an expression of joy.
- Ma-tree-mony
Meanwhile, in India, the locals believe that if a bride is cursed if she was born in an astrological combination between Mars and Saturn are under the 7th house. The said women also called as Mangliks, are believed to cause their husbands’ early death if they chose to ignore it and failed to abolish the curse.
Therefore, in order to get rid of the curse, women must marry a tree and then destroy it afterward to make sure they have a long happy marriage.
- ‘Til UTI do us Part
The Tidong community in Northern Borneo also has a weird tradition that requires the newlyweds to stay in a house together for three days without going to the toilet to make sure that they will have a harmonious relationship. Therefore, they need to hold ‘it’ in even though they really need to use the toilet.
- My Bride is a Mess
In Scotland, a wedding tradition called ‘the blackening of the bride’ exists wherein brides are being thrown at with rubbish or any kind of a waste. According to their beliefs, if a married couple can survive this; they can also survive anything.
- I Spit on Your Bride
Have you ever experienced what is it like to be spit on in your face? No?
Well, in Massai weddings, the attendees sometimes see the bride’s father blessing his daughter through spitting on her head and chest before she leaves the village with her new husband.
- Abducted
In Spartan culture, it was custom for women to shave their heads and dress like a man before being kidnapped by their future husbands – which simply means, brides won’t be able to do their dream hairdo since they won’t have much hair by that time.
- La Soupe (French word for toilet soup)
Now, this might be the grossest tradition that you’ll ever hear of:
In France, after the couple’s wedding, the friends of the bride and groom shall put all the leftovers from dinner in the toilet pan and then force the newly-weds to drink out of it.
At the end of the day, their traditions don’t really have much importance in such events. What matters most is that the couple is able to unite as one after years of searching for their the one.
And that’s where the list ends. What are your thoughts about it? Would you still want to get married abroad?
