{"id":12193,"date":"2019-05-02T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T16:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/?p=12193"},"modified":"2025-03-21T22:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T22:09:50","slug":"wedding-traditions-from-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/cleveland-wedding-dj\/wedding-traditions-from-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Traditions From Around The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\"><span class='et-dropcap'>Y<\/span>ou&#8217;ve probably heard that rain is good luck on your wedding day \u2013 or ironic depending on whether you&#8217;re an Alanis Morissette fan and your definition of \u201cironic\u201d \u2013 but you may not be familiar with these other cultural wedding traditions and superstitions. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">If you&#8217;re looking for something unique to add to your wedding, either to symbolize your culture or personalize your union, consider selecting one of these symbols or customs \u2013 or try putting a new spin on an old favorite to make it truly yours!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Asian:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">Asian couples often wear robes embroidered with cranes to symbolize fidelity for the length of a marriage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Czech: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">In accordance with Czech tradition, wedding guests throw peas instead of rice. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Danish:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">In Holland, couples often plant a pine tree outside their new home as a symbol of fertility and luck.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Egyptian:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">Egyptian women often pinch the bride on her wedding day for good luck. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">In Egypt, the bride&#8217;s family traditionally cooks for the couple for a week after the wedding so the newlyweds can relax.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">English:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">In England, if a bride finds a spider in her wedding dress, it is said to be good luck.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">English couples traditionally consider Wednesday the &#8220;best day&#8221; to marry, although couples who marry on Monday are said to do so for wealth, while those who marry on Tuesday marry for health. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day, according to English folklore, even though it&#8217;s the most popular day of the week to marry!<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Finnish:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">A Finnish bride traditionally went door-to-door collecting gifts in a pillowcase while accompanied by an older, married man who represented long marriage.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Greek: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greek brides often place a <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sugar cube in their glove to sweeten the union.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Korean:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">Forget white! In Korea, brides traditionally wear bright hues of red and yellow to take their vows.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Moroccan:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">Moroccan women often take a milk bath to purify themselves before their wedding ceremony. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">South African:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">In South Africa, the parents of the bride and groom are said to carry fire from their hearths to light a new fire in the newlyweds&#8217; hearth.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: karla;\">Swedish: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\">A Swedish bride traditionally places a silver coin from her father and a gold coin from her mother in each shoe to ensure she&#8217;ll never do without. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: karla;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, contact SPE at (216) 870-4513 or<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto: scott@spedj.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">scott@spedj.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve probably heard that rain is good luck on your wedding day \u2013 or ironic depending on whether you&#8217;re an Alanis Morissette fan and your definition of \u201cironic\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[145,147,146,148,149,144,150,151,152,153],"class_list":["post-12193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cleveland-wedding-dj","tag-asian-wedding-cleveland","tag-english-wedding-cleveland","tag-eqyption-wedding-cleveland","tag-finnish-wedding-cleveland","tag-greek-wedding-cleveland","tag-international-wedding-cleveland","tag-korean-wedding-cleveland","tag-moroccan-wedding-cleveland","tag-south-african-wedding-cleveland","tag-swedish-wedding-cleveland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18041,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12193\/revisions\/18041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spedj.com\/spe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}