Wedding traditions of the different countries

Chinese Wedding Customs in Hong Kong

Wedding's in Hong Kong include many traditions that are handed down from generation to generation in China.

A Traditional Slovenian 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.

Russian Weddings

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.

Monaco Weddings

Monaco is the home of one of history’s most beloved love stories; the romance of Prince Rainier III and American cinema’s most famous actresses of all time, Grace Kelly. Start your love story in the most historically romantic atmosphere of all time.

Chilean Wedding Customs

Usually, in Chile, weddings go like this:The man proposes and (so long as the lady accepts), he offers her an engagement ring which she places on her ring finger, just like in England and most of Europe.

Timor People Marriage Tradition

Timor island is before 1976 splitted into 2, the east part was colonized by Portugal, and on the west part the area of Indonesia, yet after 1998 a movement of east Timor independence supported by Australia and Portugal succeeded in giving suppression to Indonesian government to organize a memorandum of opinion, under the watch of UN which brought east Timor ( Timor l'Este ) into their independency.

Polish Wedding Traditions

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.

Wedding in Mongolia

There are 2 kinds of important wedding ceremonies in Mongolia. One of them is the traditional wedding ceremony.

Traditions on Czech weddings

Wedding day is the most important day in life for every bride and every groom. It is a day that you want to remember forever. The way everyone celebrates this great event varies significantly according to country’s traditions. So what are Czech wedding traditions?

Wedding in Croatia

Couples arrange their own marriages. Young people usually meet in school, through friends, or at work. They often begin to spend time together in the company of a larger group of friends. A young man and woman usually have a serious relationship before they meet each other's families. Individuals theoretically have a great deal of choice about marriage partners, but Croats tend to marry people of the same nationality and religion and with the same educational level and social status.

Myanmar Wedding

When a boy and a girl come of age and, love one another and will want to marry and live happy ever after, a wedding ceremony will be performed for them where their parents, relatives, honourable guests and friends are invited, so that they will be recognized as a newly married couple. This wedding ceremony we present, celebrated according to Myanmar Traditions and computable to the modern age.

Swedish Wedding Traditions

Every country has its own unique wedding traditions. Sweden is a country that has some very interesting wedding traditions. The Swedish wedding traditions that you will find here were all practiced in the past.

Finnish Wedding Traditions

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.

Serbian Wedding

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.