What Strange Wedding Traditions Have You Seen?
Since it’s Friday afternoon, here’s a fun question. What are weird or unusual wedding traditions that you’ve seen?
This past weekend kicked off the 2010 Wedding Season in which those of use in our twenties and early thirties spend at least one weekend per month from March to June and then September to October at some type of wedding activity for a friend or family member.
We have all participated in some odd wedding moments. The wedding I attended this past weekend was fun because the bride and groom are both artists. We made paper airplanes out of scrapbook paper to throw at the couple as they left the church, and they had an ice cream sundae bar in lieu of cake. Both of those were cool and unique.
This morning, a good friend of mine was discussing some wedding plans via gchat and shared a tradition that her fiance mentioned. At most weddings he has attended, the winner of the garter toss places the garter on the winner of the bouquet toss. Having only attended weddings in the South, this was a new one to me.
Intrigued, I posted the question on Twitter and got a few replies:
-I have seen that all too often..and it is…once it happened to be a brother and sister…
-Yep. Although I didn’t do it when I caught the garter at my brother’s wedding. The bouquet catcher was 8 years old.
-Yes-last Nov & the groomsmen were suppose to tell the guy how high to put the garter on the girls thigh. It was different.
As someone who finds the garter toss tacky, this is just well…creepy.
Hence, my Friday afternoon question: what strange wedding traditions have you seen?
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March 13th, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Mine are ALL african:
Throw rice at the bride and groom so that they have many children (Most of the traditions actually happen BEFORE the wedding
The groom’s aunties come with khangas/lesos (they are pieces of cloth that look like wraps) and they are put on the ground so that the bride steps on them when she is going to the car so that she does not get dirty/dusty (It’s dusty in Kenya). All these pieces of cloth go to the girl’s aunties.
The groom (through the best man) has to give some cash to the bride sister who she is leaving and will now be ‘lonely’, or else she will not release her luggage bag. THe sister/s carry the bride’s suitcase to the car and if she is not ‘paid’ she will not release the bride. (the bride is usually picked up from her dad’s or uncle’s house to the church and it is the best man who comes to pick her up. the groom waits in the church sweating) So much fun!
May 21st, 2010 at 11:57 am
As a wedding photographer, I’ve seen some pretty unique weddings. But I still agree – the garter toss is one of those traditions that you wonder, “where did that come from?”