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weird wedding customs
« on: February 14, 2011, 01:10:37 AM »
Over the world, people practice numerous wedding customs that have been passed on through many generations. Although each has a long history of meaning and significance, many just seem strange and out of place in today’s culture.
Check out some of the historical wedding customs that are still practiced today, much to the intrigue and wonderment of its audience.

Blackening the Bride

To prepare for their marriage, Scottish brides-to-be must go through a very foul pre-wedding ritual. Friends of the bride take her by surprise and cover her with eggs, spoiled milk, feathers, pretty much anything disgusting. The blackened bride is then paraded around town. The purpose of this custom is to prepare the bride for marriage because after going through that, any marital problems will seem like nothing.


Polterabend

Polterabend is a German pre-wedding tradition where friends and family come together for an informal party. While that may not seem odd, what they do at these parties certainly is. They break dishes, flowerpots, tiles, toilets, pretty much anything except glasses or mirrors. To symbolize working together through future difficulties, the bride and groom must clean everything up. Due to the need to replace all the broken goods, I suspect that German sellers of housewares are quite fond of this custom.


Jumping The Broom

The “Jumping the Broom” is a ceremony practiced by African Americans, in which the bride and groom, either at the ceremony or at the reception, signify their entrance into a new life and their creation of a new family by symbolically “sweeping away” their former single lives, former problems and concerns, and jumping over the broom to enter upon a new adventure as wife and husband.
This “leap” into a new life (marriage as wife and husband is performed in the presence of families and friends. You can be as creative as you want when planning for this special ceremony.


Throwing nuts and Plums

Koreans believe that if the groom is smiling a lot at the wedding his first child is going to be a daughter. After the wedding groom's parents throw some nuts and plums to the bride. If the bride takes some nuts she'll get many sons.

Bathroom Ban

The Tidong are a group of people from northern Borneo with a particularly uncomfortable wedding custom. For the 3 days and 3 nights following the wedding, both the bride and groom are prohibited from using the bathroom. That means no urinating, no defecating, and no bathing. They believe that custom will lead to a long, happy, and fertile marriage. In order to achieve this, the newlyweds are allowed to eat and drink only very small amounts and are watched very closely by family members.
(Damn...This is seriously weird :laugh:)


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weird wedding customs
« on: February 14, 2011, 01:10:37 AM »

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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2011, 01:37:14 AM »
bathroom ban  X_X :surp:
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2011, 04:23:17 AM »
Interesting.
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #3 on: February 14, 2011, 10:58:46 AM »
Bathroom ban was awful.

We live in 21st century. People should refrain from following them.

Extirpate these weird customs!
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2011, 12:31:27 PM »
The bathroom thing is weirdest I have heard...  :omg:
The blackening teh bride is pretty bad in itself... wat if the marks dont go by the wedding day  :omg: Kinna makeup launa paina marks chupaan nuun :huhh:

Thank god we dont have some weird custom like this.

 
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2011, 03:48:49 PM »
BATHROOOM BAN HAHHAHAHA   :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh:



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:Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :Laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :excited: :excited: haye oye mar gya hass hass ke hahahahhaa holy crap
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2011, 02:55:12 PM »


Damn, bathroom ban! Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. :loll:

Don't we have any weird wedding customs?
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2011, 01:27:57 PM »
Quote from: Vivacious_jatt on February 14, 2011, 10:58:46 AM
Bathroom ban was awful.

We live in 21st century. People should refrain from following them.

Extirpate these weird customs!

on your viah, we're doing a bathroom ban. :pagel:
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #8 on: February 16, 2011, 07:53:18 PM »
I also reacted the same way when i saw this... then i thought of sharing with u all

Quote from: _noXiouS_ on February 15, 2011, 02:55:12 PM

Damn, bathroom ban! Talk about cruel and unusual punishment. :loll:

Don't we have any weird wedding customs?

We do have sum customs....in India..but they dont seem weird to us ...coz with time we have accepted them...but they may appear weird to people who are from other countries

examples are
It is considered bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other for several days before the wedding.
Pinching nose of the groom by his mother-in-law..to signify that the groom has come to ask for their daughter's hand rubbing nose at their doorstep.
Stealing and hiding shoes of a groom on day of wedding by bride's sisters and cousins
The bride will throw away some food on the door of her house
There is a gate money that needs to be paid by the groom to gain access to the bride.
Applying 'Surma' or kohl in eyes of groom  by his'bhabhi' (sis-in law) before leaving for girls house to ward off the evil eye

but definitely we dont have any custom such as 'Bathroom ban' :pagel:
seriously no comparison!!! :laugh:


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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2011, 09:06:10 PM »
@ Rubbie-- Tuhade Munde de HAthan de Mehndi layun da riwaaz v aa?? Jehdi Bhena, Bhra de layundiya ne Vyah teh..

           teh ik hor hunda.. CHATTIYAN Khedn da, jehde vich vyah toh next day bhabi, deyor de teh i guess jeth de, I mean
            newly wedded kudi sticks naal maardi hundi aa.. n i guess sarian bhabiyan v ohde naal hundiya ne ..
            something idda da hunda?
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2011, 12:15:14 AM »
Quote from: Kudrat K. Grewal on February 16, 2011, 09:06:10 PM
@ Rubbie-- Tuhade Munde de HAthan de Mehndi layun da riwaaz v aa?? Jehdi Bhena, Bhra de layundiya ne Vyah teh..

           teh ik hor hunda.. CHATTIYAN Khedn da, jehde vich vyah toh next day bhabi, deyor de teh i guess jeth de, I mean
            newly wedded kudi sticks naal maardi hundi aa.. n i guess sarian bhabiyan v ohde naal hundiya ne ..
            something idda da hunda?

I think i know wat u are talking about... i have seen this in my cousins wedding...its long time back..i think the bride and groom beat each other with sticks..on the very next day of their wedding in Gurudwara sahib... am not sure... I'll confirm this thing from sumbody..then i'll post here
But yeah that is also one of the weird custom

munde de hath te mehndi laun vala riwaz da nahi pata.. i have never seen that...but i'll ask my mom

Tusi dasso..thode vyah lai ki karna  :loll:


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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2011, 11:56:47 AM »
Quote from: _noXiouS_ on February 16, 2011, 01:27:57 PM
on your viah, we're doing a bathroom ban. :pagel:

geez hahahah get off the grass..

Still long time to go :( coz ma bapu goes putt vya layi vada ta hoja hahahahha fun stuff

Nd ohh, on your vya I'll make sure we follow that blackening the bride custom hahahaha

I'll gather quarters & dimes to get most rotten eggs hahhaha whoop whoop :)

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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2011, 01:27:51 PM »
Quote from: Vivacious_jatt on February 17, 2011, 11:56:47 AM
geez hahahah get off the grass..

Still long time to go :( coz ma bapu goes putt vya layi vada ta hoja hahahahha fun stuff

Nd ohh, on your vya I'll make sure we follow that blackening the bride custom hahahaha

I'll gather quarters & dimes to get most rotten eggs hahhaha whoop whoop :)


mae kado keha we getting you married now, kade ta houga, ohdo kar lawange...

and menu mere viah te kaala karna? aukha ni, nontheless, anything for loved ones :D
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Re: weird wedding customs
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2012, 02:53:52 PM »
Miss this missy Rubbie and her posts...

Quote from: _noXiouS_ on February 16, 2011, 01:27:57 PM
on your viah, we're doing a bathroom ban. :pagel:

I solicit your second thoughts missy. :hehe:
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