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| Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 3:34pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
The one thing every human society has in common is marriage. It doesn’t matter how isolated or backwards it is, if you stick around long enough then you’ll find yourself at something at least resembling a wedding. That being said, it will almost certainly not be what you expect. In fact it is likely to be gross, confusing, terrifying, or any mixture of the three. But as you read this list of strange wedding traditions just think to yourself – who’s the weird one  |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:29pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Blackening Of The Bride To get the blessing to go get married in Scotland, you’ll have to endure gross things getting thrown at you. Mostly it’s oil and other equally disgusting thick liquids that will blacken the bride. After that, the bride gets tied to a tree. The purpose of this exercise is to prepare the bride for the difficulties of marriage. Now imagine all of your friends throwing those things at you, covering you in grossness, and then tying you to a tree. This is the typical pre-marital humiliation that Scottish brides endures in certain parts of the country. Supposedly if you can handle this you can handle anything, including marriage.   |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:31pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Chick Killings Daurs of Chinese Inner Mongolia have a weird tradition of expecting the bride and groom to kill a baby chick while holding the knife together. The purpose of this is to find a healthy looking liver that will serve as the sign that their relationship is healthy and ready for marriage as well. In order to finalize the wedding date the bride and groom are required to kill a baby chick while holding the knife together. They then proceed to gut the chick and inspect it’s liver. If the liver looks good then they are allowed to set a date. If not, then they have to repeat the process until they find a satisfactory liver.   |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:32pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Married To A Tree Indian women who are born as Mangliks are considered to be cursed. That’s why marriage isn’t an option for them unless they first marry a tree that is then destroyed so the curse gets broken.  1 Like |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:33pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Toilet Ban   The Tidong tribes that live in Northern Borneo ban the newly married couples from going to the toilet either to urinate or empty their bowels for three days straight. It’s supposed to mark bonding time between the wife and the husband. In France, after the wedding ceremony is complete, the friends of the bride and groom would collect all of the leftovers, bits of trash, and anything else they deem to be sufficiently gross within a toilet bowl which they would then force the bride and groom to drink out of. Although these days the trash is often substituted with chocolate, you’re still drinking brown stuff out of a real live toilet bowl. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:38pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Whale Tooth To get married in Fiji, a man must bring a tooth of a whale to his future wife’s father. So in order to get married, a man must face the largest mammal on Earth and steal a tooth. Lets think about this, excluding the black market the only place in the world to get a whale tooth is in the mouth of the largest mammal on earth, which also happens to spend most of its time underwater. That’s true love.   Lalasticlala,Mynd44 |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:44pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Feet On The Ground   During the celebration in Ireland, the bride’s feet must at all times stay on the floor so the evil fairies can’t sweep her away. The Irish believe that if they don’t, evil fairies will come and sweep her away. The logic? Evil fairies like beautiful things. The bride is beautiful. The fairies can only get to her if she is not touching the ground |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:47pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Arrow Shots   In Yugur culture, which is a part of an ethnic Chinese minority, the groom is scheduled to shoot his bride with a bow and arrow right before the wedding three times. The arrows aren’t equipped with arrowheads, but the act is still considered one that builds trust. In Yugur culture (an ethnic Chinese minority) the groom will actually shoot his bride with a bow and arrow before the wedding…three times. Ok, so the arrows don’t have arrowheads, but still, thats like getting shot with rubber bullets. Once the deed is done, the groom will collect the arrows and break them, thus ensuring that they will love each other forever. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:49pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Human Rug   After the wedding reception is over in French Polynesia, the relatives of the bride all lay side by side in the grass with their face pressed into the ground. The newly weds then walk over them. The bride and groom then walk across them like some sort of human rug. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 4:50pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Motherly Assistance    In some tribes in Africa it is a custom for the mother of the bride to join the bride and groom in the bedroom in order to show the bride how it’s done Although this is usually a village elder, sometimes it can be the brides own mother. And you thought your parents were nosy. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 5:03pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Massai mucous  At a Massai wedding in Kenya it is not uncommon to see the bride’s father bless his daughter by spitting on her head and breasts before she leaves the village with her new husband. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by austinereds(m): 5:05pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
wow. strange really interesting. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 5:09pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Strawboys  One of the stranger wedding traditions on our list, this one comes to us from the Irish counties of Leitrim and Mayo. In these counties there are 9 young men that are collectively designated as “straw boys”. On the eve before the wedding the strawboys go to the house of the bride and dance with her. If there are any other women in the home they dance with them too. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 5:26pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Serious Business In the Congo, if you want to ruin someone’s wedding just hire a comedian. In order for the marriage to be taken seriously the bride and groom are not allowed to smile throughout the entire ceremony.  1 Like |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 5:31pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Kidnapping the bride  Practiced in many countries throughout Africa and Asia it can often lead into woman being raped and/or forced into marriage, especially in nations like Rwanda. |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by abduljabbar4(m): 5:32pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
You didnt eve mention the one the one that requires the bride to sleep with the grooms father |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 5:33pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by Nobody: 5:34pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
talk2saintify:Tell me this is a lie please?   |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by makydebbie(f): 5:40pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
talk2saintify:Madness! Death sentence!! Barbaric!!! 1 Like |
| Re: Check Out The Strangest Wedding Traditions Around The World by talk2saintify(m): 5:46pm On Oct 09, 2017 |
Rokia2: lol IS NAT dear |
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