Ethnic Wedding Traditions

With so many ways to form the style of your wedding it is a great idea to incorporate ethnic wedding traditions. A wedding is a time to bring families together and create and celebrate a union. What better a place to share what is special about your heritage? You may have family that is all too familiar with your father’s nut and leckvar Hungarian cookies, but your college buddies may have never tried one. Ask your grandmother what her grandmother did for a dress. The white dress was not always a tradition until one special English princess wore one.

Ethnic wedding traditions and wedding culture is a beast all its own, but you can tame it and incorporate a little or a lot into your special day. Weddings and culture can not be separated with so much formal tradition so why not bring in ethnic wedding tradition as well.

One of the things popping up these days is the ethnic wedding traditions of the Celtic people of handfasting. This is literally tying the knot around the bride and grooms hands. With so much going on the day of your wedding this is a great cultural wedding technique to keep the two new lovers together all day. This ethnic wedding tradition keeps you both holding hands all day. It is your day and it will go by so fast, spend as much as possible together. Just keep in mind that you will now be so close that you will have to hold the stall door for each other when nature decides to drop in on your big day.

One different cultural wedding tradition is called Jumping the Broom. This is an African wedding tradition meant to ward off evil spirits. A broom is waved over the head of a Bride and Groom at the beginning of the ceremony and then they jump over the broom at the end of the ceremony. This has become a popular ethnic wedding tradition because a broom is said to symbolize the center of a family and health. It helps take the regular tradition and put a special ethnic wedding tradition spin on a day you all will remember; and it never hurt to ward off evil on your big day.

It is important to know your own ethnic wedding traditions and how they will relate to your history and culture. Incorporating ethnic wedding traditions into your celebration may be as elaborate as those mentioned above or very simple. There are different wedding processional or recessional patterns to follow based on your religious beliefs. You can do something as simple as a culturally inspired pair of earrings instead of pearls or take the leap and jump the broom.