In Finland, a traditional bride-to-be walks door-to-door with a pillowcase, to receive her wedding presents. An older, married man walks with her, holding an umbrella or parasol to cover her. This pre-wedding tradition a symbol of protection and shelter for the new bride.

What immediately makes Ukraine wedding unique is that we never say we "celebrate", but always "play wedding".

Every country has unique traditions that take place at a wedding. Most often these are diversified as to the customs and religion of the various ethnic groups. Slovenia has such a zest for life and love and their marriages most aptly depict this.

Slovakia boasts with numerous wounderful traditions, where the wedding ones definately stand out from the rest of Europe!

Serbs are Orthodox Christians, and as such, are facing faith and church. Accordingly, much attention has been given a church wedding as seriously sanctity marriage, which is the basis and foundation of the family, and thus the church and state.

Wedding is one of the most interesting family traditions, in all cultures around the world. It supposes different customs for different people, which can be of religious, economical, legislative and folklore nature. The Romanian folk rituals are performed in order to bring about happiness, prosperity, social integration and fecundity to the young couple. These rituals vary from region to region, but one of common elements is the popular costumes the bride and the groom have to wear and which are full of symbolism.

Nowadays, Russian weddings come in a variety of different forms. They can contain elements of a traditional Russian wedding and also hints of a European or American-style wedding. The latter have become more and more popular and modern in recent years. True Russian weddings are unique in the fact that they are always lavishly played out! We say “played out,” as a Russian wedding ceremony is usually conducted as though it were a theatre spectacle where there is a script and everyone knows their role.

Portugal is a ancient and once-powerful country rich with tradition and heritage, including many ancient wedding customs.

The night before a girl in Poland hears her wedding bells, her mother and female relatives redo her customary single maidenly braid into two. This traditional wedding hair style symbolizes the new step the bride-to-be is taking into marriage.

Norway is a beautiful country of snow-capped mountains and beautiful long narrow lakes known as fjords. There are few places more beautiful to hold a wedding.