Wedding traditions around the world

Everyone knows that in all countries there are unique wedding traditions and customs.
In fact, very interested to see how to celebrate a wedding, for example, in Morocco and Macao.

Pakistani wedding.

A few days before the wedding, the bride's hands decorated with Pakistani designs of henna. This is done specifically for the mehendi ceremony, rite, which is believed to have to bring luck in the future family.





Korean wedding.

Korean bride and groom in traditional wedding attire. For two thousand years, there is a wedding tradition, according to which the couple in Korea clothed in hanbok, the traditional Korean costume of bright colors and simple lines.



Moroccan wedding.

Moroccan bride usually wear ornate caftans and lots of jewelry. In Morocco, the bride and all the women invited to the wedding, decorated with henna hand designs.



Scottish wedding.

All men are invited to the wedding ceremony, wearing traditional dress Highlanders: kilts woolen plaid fabric - tartan, jackets and long golf course.



Wedding Yoruba (Nigeria)

During the wedding ceremony of the Yoruba people, before you withdraw the bride, hidden under a veil, the groom and his friends prostrate themselves before the members of the family of the bride.



Bolivian wedding.

Wedding dinner on the shore of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. With head bride and groom have not showered confetti and flower petals that showered them during the wedding ceremony.



American Wedding.

At the wedding in the United States unmarried girls traditionally catch the bride's bouquet. It is believed that the one who catches the precious bouquet, soon also will get married.



Japanese wedding.

Japanese couple in a traditional ceremony, during which they should drink 9 cups of sake. Photographed in Shinto temple.



Chinese wedding.

In China, the bride is brought to the groom's parents wedding traditional red wagon.



Mass wedding in Punjab, India.

Mass wedding in India facilitate the financial burden on families, which entail the collection and organization of the traditional dowry expensive wedding ceremony. Bride wearing white dress instead of the traditional Indian bridal wear red because women belong to the Christian communities of Punjab.



French wedding.

In the photo - French wedding cake croquembouche, which is a majestic tower of cream cakes.



Mexican wedding.

The bride and her parents are willing to make a wedding procession on the street of a small Mexican town.



Uighur wedding.

Uighur brides are ready for wedding Two outfit: a white wedding dress western style for the gala dinner, which takes place on the first day of the wedding, and a traditional Uighur outfit for the second day of the wedding, during which she welcomes guests as a married woman.



Wedding in Afghanistan.

Afghan men dance to the rhythms of the Armenian dhol drum on the street in the center of Jalalabad. And Afghan women are often celebrate the wedding alone, without leaving the house.



Wedding in Malaysia.

The bride and groom during the wedding ceremony of a tea tray tea tradition older family members. Photographed in the Malaysian capital - Kuala Lumpur.



Russian wedding.

Newlyweds released two white doves as a sign of their love and harmony. The picture was taken in Saint Petersburg.



And it is not a traditional wedding in Macau.

This picture was taken at the hotel, the Wynn Macau, the new Asian center of gambling entertainment. Such a wedding - not typical for this region of China, which was once a Portuguese colony - an eclectic bride dressed in white dress in a retro style, and bridesmaids and guests - in costumes in the style of French maids. While it may be this is the beginning of a new tradition?

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