I came across a little wedding tradition that I happen to think that’s something quite interesting. Serving groom’s cakes on weddings.
I found out that this is a tradition typically associated with the American South1 and is usually flavored fruitcake.
If wedding cakes are usually decorated white, light and more feminine, the groom’s cake takes on a more fun, elaborate and unconventional cake designs.
The groom’s cake seen above is one of the better examples of how one can look like. It takes on the funny wedding cake topper showing off a bride dragging a fireman to the altar.
Other designs can be as …read more

If someone mentions the words, “wedding dress” I’d automatically think of white, lace, taffeta, organza, beading, satin and chiffon. These are some of the few elements that usually compose the wedding dress of today. So when I saw this Turkish wedding dress, my imagination became alive with thoughts of foreign wedding traditions and other historical bits about one of the important events in our life.
Technically, the dress itself is an amazing piece of costume. Deep purple velvet – one could call it aubergine – upon which was heavy real gold thread embroidery and spangles, couched over cardboard and padding. Entirely …read more

The reason why I love looking through random photos online is that I discover a lot of different wedding ceremonies. Naturally, what sets these photos apart is the apparent uniqueness in how the wedding couple were garbed. In this case, my attention is turned to a Shinto wedding ceremony being held at the Tamukeyama Shrine wonderfully captured by a photographer passer-by.
No, these people aren’t dressed up for Halloween — too early for that anyway — or some play. It’s the real deal. They’re getting hitched!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpellgen/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
“As I was taking some photos of Sangatsu-do, I noticed some photographers …read more

With all the varied influences in fashion and design tastes nowadays, a bride’s vision of her own wedding can be lead astray. Who wouldn’t want the romance of roses and silver or the allure lush garden weddings? Or perhaps finding yourself grabbing the opportunity to include a Vera Wang wedding dress in the wedding budget.
But in these things, though appropriate and fabulous choices, do you truly find yourself or simply see a victim of all the sales pitches and peer pressure? I encourage you to find beauty in letting yourself shine on your big day.
One of the most admirable wedding …read more

My tween daughter and I just watched the old movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding on cable and it made me think that falling in love and deciding to get married to the one you love  may require you to convert to another religion just like what Ian Miller (John Corbett) did in the movie. His fiancee, Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) is a Greek Orthodox and for them to marry, Ian had to be baptized as a Greek Orthodox.
Changing or converting to your loved one’s religion is a serious matter. It is something you need to think about before taking …read more

Is Mike Tyson of Chinese blood and heritage? How come he got married two weeks after his daughter’s death? Under Chinese customs, if a death in the family occurs, you either have to get married a few weeks or month after the death or you have to wait a year or two after the death in the family.

If it was me, I’d postpone my wedding if someone as close as my daughter dies! A wedding is meant to be an occasion to celebrate. How can you do that if you’re grieving? Perhaps Mike Tyson and new wife, Lakiha Spicer ain’t …read more

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Hmm, it seems that churches in England are on the offensive if they are relaxing their rules to attract more brides and grooms to get married in church. I wonder when the Catholic church will relax their rules?
Brides and grooms seeking the perfect wedding will be allowed choose almost any church, as long as they can prove some link with the parish – even through parents or grandparents.
Idyllic churches which feature in films, or are used for celebrity weddings, are expected to see a surge in applications.
As the new rules take effect, clergy are being issued …read more

I read this article about Humanist Weddings gaining popularity and it made me pause and think what it means and how it is different from other wedding ceremonies. Apparently, more and more Scots are getting married the ‘humanist’ way.
So what is it exactly?
According to Wedding Guide UK

Humanists do not believe in God, but simply in ‘the good within human beings, in their equality, and in the individual’s right to freedom of choice in the main decisions of life’.
Consequently, a humanist wedding allows you to have a ceremony that focuses on these values and beliefs while still allowing you to …read more

Are you engaged to an Afghan Muslim and unsure about the wedding traditions? Fazl ur Rahim Muzaffary has a great article on everything you need to know about Afghan muslim Weddings.
Marriage in the traditional Afghan culture has a deep-rooted process through which it treads step by step. Rarely do young men and women have an opportunity to meet each other, and the to-be wife is usually chosen in a haste. When a young man wants to marry a young lady who is from an unknown family, first his parents do some kind of background check about her, trying to …read more

Each culture has their own wedding traditions. I know for my own wedding, we incorporated both Filipino and New Zealand/
English traditions. I was trolling through the net when I stumbled into old Russian Wedding Traditions and I thought it will be cool to share them with you, in case, you know, you get engaged to a Russian
In the Old Rus’ it was a custom to marry quite at a young age, starting from 12. It was taken for granted that the bride and the bridegroom did not know each other very well before the wedding or, often, had …read more