10 Crazy Wedding Traditions From Around The World
One custom involves dissecting a chicken!
30 January 2017
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When it comes to wedding traditions, we’ve all heard about wearing something old, new, borrowed and blue. But have you heard about couples dissecting chickens to set up their wedding dates or brides pre-planning their crying session one month in advance (strange, right?)
Scroll through to find out some other crazy wedding traditions that — gross or strange as they might be — represent the century-old customs that keep people close to their roots.
1. Beat the couple
Pre-wedding celebrations get pretty nasty in Scotland. In some parts of the country, the couple is pelted with trash food, rotten eggs and cow’s dung. Apparently, if you can withstand this torture – you’re all set for a lifelong relationship.
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2. Dissect a chicken
In Daur, China – couples are required to dissect a chicken and check its liver. If it’s healthy — they can set their wedding date. If not — more chickens to kill!
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3. The big fat Mauritian wedding
A full bodied and well-endowed Mauritian bride is the symbol of prosperity and good luck. While the rest of the world’s brides-to-be sign up for diet plans, a Mauritian bride is force-fed to look fat on her wedding day.
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4. It's a serious business
The wedding day is supposedly the happiest day for the bride and groom but not in Congo. According to some customs, the couple is supposed to keep a solemn face throughout the day. Any sign of happiness means they aren’t serious about the marriage.
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5. A pricey dance
This is one way to pay for the wedding expenses. In some Greek cultures, the guests pin money on the bride and groom as they perform their first couple dance.
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6. Shoot the bride
In China’s Yugur culture, grooms are required to shoot their future brides - with three bows and arrows (without the arrowheads). Once done, the groom collects the arrows and breaks them, thus ensuring that they will love each other forever.
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7. Smash the evil
Potterbend is a pretty popular ritual in Germany where guests bring new dishes as gifts and the couple then smashes them — apparently to ward off the evil spirits.
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8. A whale of a bride
If you're in a relationship with a Fijian girl make sure to hunt for the rarest whale tooth — that's the only way you will win her father's heart and her hand.
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9. Jump the broom
There's quite a history behind this phrase. In the unfortunate days of slavery, many African-American couples would declare their union by jumping over a broom together. Today, the tradition thrives in many Celts and Gypsy cultures.
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10. Pre-planned crying
Brides and females of the Tujia people in China take wedding tears to a whole different level. Starting one month in advance the bride starts to cry for one hour — every day. Soon, the female members of the clan join the crying session. The tradition is believed to be an expression of joy, as the women weep in different tones.
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