Married life inevitably has its ups and downs, so a strong bond between the couple is needed to overcome all obstacles. In the long days past, the newlyweds to give a good start in their new life together, friends and family rites are performed to appease the gods and ward off evil spirits and give gifts to help the young couple to establish a home and wedding ceremonies include as many "lucky charms" as possible.
Although Wedding ceremonies and customs have changed much over the centuries and differ between cultures, we all celebrate the link between the newlyweds. Thus, when you are planning your wedding in foreign shores, why not add some local customs to the ceremony? It will make your wedding day as unique as the link between the two and provide lasting memories.
Paving the Way Ahead
Many countries have customs to ensure the wedding day is a kind and not marred by discord, bad luck or evil spirits. In Germany, friends and family to break the crockery in the door of the young couple on the night before the wedding to scare away bad luck. For the same reason, the church bells are played in an English wedding where the bride enters the church to walk down the aisle. Way of the bride, or in some countries of the bed, is strewn with flower petals to wish the young couple a happy life together. And to give the newlyweds the opportunity established in the married state without a truckload of homework, the family of an Egyptian bride prepare enough food to last a week.
Continuity
The continuity of Customs are part of the celebration of the marriage ceremony in many countries. In southern Africa, fire is brought from the house of the bride and the groom's parents to light a fire in the house of the young couple. In Bermuda, is the custom of the couple to be given a tree sapling with the wedding cake. The tree is planted in the couple can watch him grow throughout their married life. French couples wedding drink the cup, during their wedding ceremony. These cups are often highly developed and passed from one generation to the next.
Commitment
The heart of any wedding is the public commitment that the partners are doing to each other. It's not enough that, in many countries, the bride and groom are "forced" to show the wedding guests and the wider world that are installed on married life and the possibility of sharing common tasks. In parts of Africa, couples jump over a broom held across the door of the church or at the threshold of their new house to indicate their willingness to keep the house together. In Germany, the newly married couples have to perform a task such as sawn timber or hanging washing to prove they can work as a team.
The tradition of exchange and use of wedding rings, now a publicly accepted way of showing commitment, could be traced to the ancient Egyptians. A wedding ring, without beginning or end, never meant endless love. However, rings are not the only exchange items to show your love. In Wales, it was customary for the groom to carve a wooden spoon, make your girlfriend put on a string to show that he was "spoken".
Good Luck Charms
Red, the color of love and joy, play an important role in a Chinese wedding, where the brides often wear red dresses and wedding candles, accessories and table decorations are all red, while a Japanese bride dressed in white, long before this became a popular custom in Europe or America. Everyone has heard the song "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a sixpence in the shoe "which is traditional in England and America and symbolizes the past, future, happiness, fidelity and prosperity. In a similar vein, parents of the bride Sweden will give their two coins to use in each shoe to protect her from a life of poverty.
Special symbolic foods served at many weddings to bring health, long life, happiness and wealth to the young couple. Dried fruits and nuts, the signs of abundant harvest, a feature of many cultures, as well as "luxury" foods such as marzipan and Sugarcraft luxury.
Passing It On
Weddings never ends with the couple and guests to return home. Instead, the end of the day the wedding is the time to pass some of the good fortune to the newlyweds had to single friends and relationships. In Finland, the bride is blindfolded surrounded by single friends and give one of them her wedding crown. The girl is giving the crown, he says, will be the next to marry. In England and the United, the brides throw their bouquets in a group of single friends, while in Germany, the bride "the veil dance.
A wedding is an occasion happy, no matter where or what country you come to get married. Rites and customs may be different, but all celebrate the bond between the bride and groom and their objective is I wish the best of luck. If you are planning a wedding abroad, and are able to incorporate some of the local customs, you create a wedding day is deliciously different and will give both of you and all your guests memories that will last for many years.
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Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – How to Tie the Knot: Wedding Customs From Around the World
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