Native American Wedding Traditions

If you are of Indian heritage you may decide to have a wedding filled with Native American wedding traditions. It may be very important to you to have a wedding connected to the Earth and celebrating our tie to the Great Spirit. You are in luck because right now the trend in weddings is to celebrate the world and have a “green” wedding. Therefore, it should not be hard to incorporate Native American wedding traditions into your special day.

The first thing you need to do is research the Native American wedding traditions of your tribe. There are quite a few of varied traditions you can incorporate into your day, but to make them truly special you will want to be specific.

Depending on your tribe that will influence what type of Native American wedding dresses you wear. In the Hopi tradition the groom and the men of his family stay at the bride’s house and make her traditional Native American wedding dress in white buckskin with a red line around the bottom. If you are a Cherokee Native American wedding traditions would then state the bride and groom each begin the wedding wearing a blue blanket and the priest will take it off during their wedding vows and they will be adorned with a white wedding blanket before the end of the Native American wedding ceremony has ended.

Native American wedding traditions are very much family oriented and no matter what tribe you are from you may decide to wear some Native American handmade jewelry on your wedding day. You may even follow the old parable of something old or something borrowed and wear a hand me down jewelry item.

Native American wedding ceremonies uphold the belief of the Great Spirit and our connection to the Earth. A girl may go to bathe herself in a nearby lake the morning of the wedding in the Native American wedding tradition of being blessed by nature and the Earth. Some great Native American traditional wedding quotes that pertain to this ceremonial tradition may be found if you talk to your Tribal leader or go to your local bookstore.

If you still need to learn more about Native American wedding bands, Native American wedding rings, Native American wedding jewelry or if you want to see pictures of the different tribes Native American wedding dress you should try a quick online source. One of the best things you could also do is talk to your mother or grandmother to find out what she did during her wedding. Incorporating Native American Wedding traditions into your special day will leave you connected to your fiancée and to the Great Spirit.