The weirdest tradition for me by far, is the insanely stupid amount of money people splurge on it, which they simply don't have or can't afford. Worse of all, it's imposed by other people. As if it's some kind of competition? Nice way to already start your marriage by having a huge debt? It just makes zero sense to me. My view is that it's not up to me to judge how, why and when people want to get legally bonded together. It's their lives, not mine. If I'm invited,great! If not, also great!
But you can also view it as one of the great challenges that a couple can go through and learn to compromise. How to spend money? Who is important to who? Planning organizing. I don't think you feel forced to spend money that you don't have but you should talk to your partner about what they want and save towards to that goal.
Honestly getting married during Covid was one of the best ways I saved money lol. We spent less than $1000 and had just our parents and grandparents that could make it. Had our friend officiate and all the other guests were on a zoom call streamed on the TV in the living room where we had it
Its so funny, I was a wedding DJ and sound engineer for about 750 weddings in South Africa, and honestly, it was so amazing to see the difference between, English (South African), British, Afrikaans, French, Dutch, Hippie (thats a thing), Indian, Jewish, Xhosa, Zulu, Congolese, Nigerian.... Every single one, was both beautiful and horrifying. Thank you so much for this video!!!
Congrats!!! Marriage is great - my wife and I just had our 40th anniversary. Weddings can be fun and also crazy. I hope yours is everything you want! Keep in mind it’s just one day out of your lives.
Amen to that! So often it seems that the focus is on the wedding and not on the life together, which is days then weeks then months then years. Not just the day of the wedding. My husband and I are close to 30 years.
I went to a wedding that played instrumental versions of break-up songs at the reception and each guest received an ashtray with the happy couple's names hand-embossed in it by the bride.
French, our wedding: 1500€: 1000€ for the restaurant (24people: only close friends and close family), 500€ for our rings (mine -gold- was on sale, and his -silver- was made out of my own concept). No suit for him, just a nice jean shirt. And my dress was handmade, by myself, with jean fabric. Short ceremony at the town hall, restaurant till midnight(no party, no DJ, just an homemade playlist on a usb) and that's it. No photographer either. We did put a box for money (it pais us a quick honeymoon in a fancy hotel in Annecy), no gifts, no weird traditions, except the one for drinking champagne...but it wasn't champagne, it was a local fizzy white wine. Not all weddings are big, not all weddings are expensive... What matters is to do it with people you cherish and who you know cherish you in return. It was 11years ago. Last year, we celebrated our 10years at the restaurant, 28people, 2000€. I do hope we won't spend a thousand more money for our 20th!
In certain parts of Finland it is a custom that a small group of uninvited people arrive at the wedding reception, and are wholeheartedly welcomed, fed and given lots of alcohol for the whole evening. Also someone has to kidnap the bride, preferably using an uncommon vehicle, like a horse carriage.
Mon mariage a coûté genre 1500$ canadiens tout inclus lol. On a été à un restaurant médiéval qui prenait tout en charge, animation musique et gâteau compris ! Tout le monde s'est bien amusé, on s'est mariés dans notre sunday best et tout le monde était encouragé à juste s'habiller comme ils voulaient, et c'était trop bien
Our wedding $2000. 8 guests at my parents house, catered food, flowers, $60 white dress and $30 blue shoes, and I went to a hair salon for a pretty French chignon. Did my own makeup, we had our own cameras. And we signed our self uniting marriage papers. No officiant needed. Didn't need a dance party or DJ. Just the company of the closest family members related to us. We celebrated with friends when we saw them later on. Saved money to buy a house.
Only 8 people and 2 000 $?! How? I had over 100 people and paid waaay more for the dress, makeup and the rest and yet I paid around 11 000 €. We had a great DJ, catered food with 5 warm meals, fresh flowers everywhere, ballroom, rented car etc. We didn't have one thing - big wedding cake. We paid around 120 $ per person with all that and you double of that. With all the gifts we managed to actually win some money and it wasn't the goal...
@@stopkaralublin7578 if we did a regular wedding we would have had 50-60 people. But we wanted to buy a house asap. The party later on in our home with the same people we would have invited costs less.
Here in Southern Germany, the bride is also kidnapped traditionally, but by the groomsmen. They take her to a local bar and drink until the groom comes and finds her. The groom has to do some drinking challenges to free his bride and has to pay the tab for everyone as a ransom. After that everyone is drunk and the party can begin. Or so they say. We opted out of that tradition 🙈
Thank you Loic for posting this video today! I was just told that I have a non cancerous brain tumor which I did surgery for yesterday. This video has really brightened my day!
Clinking while keeping eye contact is hard. In my country, it is expected to not only do that but also say the name of the other person right before clinking. And boy is it awkward when the other person smiles and calls you by your name but you can't recall the other persons name so you just say "cheers".
Thank you for making our lives livlier, bien plus belles car plein de rires et sourires. Delight and joy to your marriage always, and many good laughs -- n'en parlant même pas de plusieurs autres occasions pour une bonne soupe à l'oignon après qui ne seront jamais plus après pour cette raison là !
Back in days of old - 1955 - my parents got married at city hall with their best friends as witnesses. Dad's family had a reception two months later and another by mom's family a month after that; the families lived well over 3,000 miles/5000 km apart as airplane flights were not in the budget and this was before the Eisenhower Interstates were built. I'm not sure both families ever met.
6:35 As an Indian, I know that's true but you got one thing wrong, it's not just brides who have to do it, even some grooms have to do it due to certain astrological things... (I still don't understand astrology)
Npt especially weird... But at my sisters wedding (we are germans) there was an auction for her shoe. My brother made a little play for the guests. Because my sister is a chemist, he said "I accidentally got chemicals on it and now its a toy truck! We need money to turn it back!" and then they went up and down the hall to recieve little donations from the guests. They also had a wedding news magazine... Well, we called it "Hochzeitszeitung" with little stories about the bride and groom and a little quiz and stuff and you could buy it for a donation. It was quite cute. The only thing is: I'm not sure if it's a german tradition or if it comes from the UdSSR, cause my parents (and most of my extended family) grew up there, so some traditions may have got mixed up... I also heard of a cousin who had to pay to get his bride from her "kidnappers" while doing some stuff (if I remember correctly, the money came from the family helping him and all of the money would go to the newlyweds afterwards) And my sister and her husband had to do a few quests like cutting a big heart out of linen and then step through it together (with little scissors to make it more difficult and entertaining) and I heard of a tradition were you have that stuff that lays around after you cut wood with a saw ("Sägespäne" in german) mixed with coins and the pair has to search for all the coins that are spread in the ground. ... Most traditions I heard of are those were money is collected from all the guests and gets then to the pair to have a good start. Or pay off the wedding hopefully. Oh! And one thing I remember vividly was the last dance of the day, where my sister danced with her godfather while the women hold her veil above her. It was into the midnight hour. And I know of the practice to dance the waltz with your significant other and then with your parents and your parents-in-law... I forgot the line up, but something like that. And when all of them danced a bit, everyone is welcome to join. Don't know if that's a german tradition or just a normal thing at a wedding... If I get to marry, I will probably take all the good stuff to enjoy it and have my guests enjoy it. For my family it was always "just family at the wedding" but my sister and brother for example had also friends and coworkers... My extended family is way too big to have them all invited and I see why "a small wedding" is still quite big in numbers... Well, I'm gonna see who will be necessary to be invited and who not, if it gets to it xD And in germany it is also necessary to have the official documents signed at the city hall. Some do only that and party afterwards, without church involved. A cousin of mine did that and partied at another date with a preacher doing the chuchy stuff (without having to be in a church, but the same vibe)... So it comes down to how you like it in the end. Some even marry quite quickly and party afterwards, cause it gives you a discount on taxes if you're officially married. So some do it like in december to have the benefit and the party big in summer or spring or even later~
@@Hariya-b5g I don't know but I am pretty sure not all Indians do that as in the video he says "some lesser known traditions" but India has variety of traditions. People will generally not understand that because most of the countries its just one thing all over. So most of his followers who are not from India would think that all Indians marry trees. That's why I put that statement.
My husband and I decided to ditch the huge party. We had a small ceremony under a tree planted by my grandfather. $500 total for food and decorations and entertainment. The money that would have gone to a traditional American wedding went to a family car. Neither of us regret starting off our life debt free with money in our savings.
6:58 In India, we also do that but we steal the grooms shoes not kidnapping the bride. And then, the groom and family have to negotiate, it's generally done by sisters in law (sisters of the bride) and sometimes by brothers in law (brothers of the bride), although only the sisters get the money. And it's considered a mandatory tradition and even if you save the shoes from being stolen, you still have to give money as tradition...
I’m in the wedding industry and I always love when people talked about wedding cuz I just think and it pays my bills lol I have definitely worked wedding where I thought they could have saved money by doing a backyard wedding
Had a town hall wedding in the fall of 2020. Me, my wife, and one friend who was good with a camera. It was the best decision of my life. Due to a town hall mistake we got married for free. It only cost us the rings. 😊
There are two ways to give money to someone: Directly or through employment. As long as you're spending money it doesn't matter and paying someone to do something has better results, unless of course they can't work. It's a misconception that money spent on such a wedding doesn't end up to people, because it does through through jobs. Even if it goes through other companies or rich people it still ends up helping people. That's how the economy works. The only problem is when paying a company or an individual who won't spend the money but that's usually not the case. In fact, creating more jobs means that the ratio of working people to jobs improves, which means that salaries go up.
Kidnapping the bride is common in Austria and at least the southern part of Germany as well. Usually after the meal, in a moment when the the groom is less attentive, some friends will take the bride to a nearby restaurant or bar and continue their celebration there. (It is advised to leave a hint with someone staying with the original party, where they are actually going.) The groom and maybe some of his friends, best man, etc. then must search the bride. As soon as they find the escapees, they may shortly join the remote party, then the groom pays the bar's or restuarant's bill, and everybody returns to the original site.
Not only in Romane, I'm from Finland and I know we had that same kidnapping the bride tradition here. I think it's not that common anymore but I've been on a finnish wedding when I was a kid where the bride was stolen. This happened after the ceremonial at the church, it happened at the party afterwards, I remember it being weird but people where laughing...
If I was the one who paid my own money for that whole luxurious party then at least let me enjoy every moment of it and don't even try to withdraw me from that expensive fun for any minute!
In Germany the tradition of kidnapping the bride also exists… she’s taken to a local bar and the groom has to pay the tab for the drinks of the bride, her kidnappers and other patrons when he finds her 😅
@@kristinatimblin1766 yeah I know that it exists and some ppl do that here, too. Just saying that for me personally I'd be p*ssed off if anyone dared doing that to me/ my bride. But we don't care about most traditions anyway. Happily unmarried for over 17years now. 😄
In Austria we also have the tradition of kidnapping the bride. Although here it's called "Braut-stehlen" which translates to "stealing the bride". The thing that is different here is that the groom wont know where the bride is. He dresses up like an elderly lady and looks for his wife. And all that is accompanied by an ensemble of the local brass band who are playing a few "Landler". (those are short traditional pieces of music) When the bride is found the groom can put off the costume of that elderly lady and the party continues until the morning.
Also forgot to say: in French marriage (and in Belgium too), when you get married you can do a list of what you would like your guests to offer to you (that day or later) OR you can put a special box where you have dinner or the party where people can put money for you (to finance a big trip or begin to buy a house or whatever you want).
Bridal registries are super common here - a list of the plates and towels and whatever which the bride and groom would like. Historically, made more sense when the couple was just launching from their parent's homes and didn't have any of that stuff.
03:03 - 03:14 In Italian we are less tragic. We simply call it"farewell to the bachelor/spinsterhood".😅 04:33 - 04:43 I discovered this thanks to the TV show"Faking It".😁
You haven’t seen a Lebanese wedding then. For people who are well off, it’s like going to the circus! The average normal wedding will have some 200 guests, complete with fireworks, dancers, welcome drink with a pianist, full buffet. The works. But guests will still be making critical comments. And I personally despise all that. I can have a great wedding day to remember without having to make down payments.
A left-handed marriage, also known as a morganatic marriage, is a marriage between people of different social ranks. In the context of royalty or other inherited titles, this prevents the spouse or any children born of the marriage from receiving the principal's privileges or position.
a few weird traditions from Germany include the kidnapping of the bride (like in that eastern European country you mentioned), the entire village coming by your house or wedding location and smashing porcelain in front of the door, including entire toilet bowls and sinks and the day you announce to get married a hunter shows up at your house and shoots 12 rounds of shotgun shells in the air out of which the groom has to drink a shot of schnapps, followed by the entire village showing up for more drinks served by the bride..... i am so glad i am no longer German :D
The bride "kidnapping" is done here in Austria too. Usually the best man and bride leave together during the wedding party, to go bar hopping. The best man has to keep buying the bride drinks and the groom has to go find her and "win her back", ideally before she's too drunk. 😂
8:20 Ce moment j'ai le vécu tel quel, au Canada!!! J'ai demandé le prix pour la location des nappes de table pour mon mariage: -J'ai besoin de 30 nappes de table pour un évènement, combien ça coûterait? - 20$ chaque nappe, quelle est votre événement? - un mariage - alors dans ce cas, ça serait 250$ par nappe, plus 100$ de plus pour des frais de réservation. - mais c'est la MÊME nappe blanche simple!!! - oui, mais vous comprenez... C'est un mariage!! Il faut juste ajouter le mot mariage pour que la facture soit gonflée! 😢
It was and often still is a way to insure that land and power and money are secure for the families or village or countries. And that girls are virgins when they marry and no longer cost money or insure a family line. Sometimes to hold war at bay. And consitutional weddings for royalty is a whole different ball game, law wise. Weddings weren't, and often still aren't about love and romance in large parts of the world, and in lots of families. That is a very Western and recent idea of marriage historicly speaking. Congrats on your upcoming wedding🎉. Great vlog
selon les régions en France le mariage varie (pas la cérémonie mais la fête) dans certaines régions (et aussi en fonction des moyens) ça ne dure que quelques heure et fini tard le soir...point final. J'ai personnellement été habitué aux mariages qui durent 2 à 3 jours : vin d'honneur le matin du mariage, avant la cérémonie (comme ça les mariés sont déjà rincés avant la cérémonie) cérémonie (donc en France la mairie et l'église et le petit verre pour monsieur le maire et le curé question de rester dans la tradition) et là on passe à table (oui car il est déjà midi à ce moment là), le repas dure jusqu'aux environs de 18 ou 19h ou il y à toujours quelqu'un (un vieil oncle) qui dit qu'il faut commencer à se préparer pour le repas du soir (l'apéro bien évidemment...mais version mariage), le repas du soir commence aux alentours de 22h (j'avoue il faut un sacré estomac), les mariés disparaissent aux alentours de minuit quand le repas se termine (il faut déjà penser à ranger les plus imbibés de coté) et aux alentour de 3 ou 4h du matin on part à la recherche des mariés pour la soupe à l'oignon (oui à leur recherche car ils se planquent pour éviter d’êtres dérangés pendant qu'il consomment leur mariage...ou qu'ils essayent parce qu'eux aussi sont imbibés). Une grande partie de l'assemblée part se coucher vers 5 ou 6h du matin et se fait réveiller par les gamins aux alentours de 8h, tout le monde prend un café (tellement noir que la cuillère tient debout toute seul dans la tasse mais il y à toujours un tonton qui pense à ouvrir la bouteille qu'il garde depuis quelques années (en général il l'a eu pour son mariage et le contenu est relativement....intense d'un point de vu degré d'alcool) et là on commence à se préparer pour le repas de midi qui se résume au restes de la veille mais il y à la gamelle de fayots sur la table avec les tranches de pain de campagne grillées qu'il faut généreusement beurrer avant d'y rajouter les fayots en question le temps de manger tout ça et la deuxième journée touche déjà à sa fin 23 heure 40 12 le deubième bour se permine quand le tonton propose de terminer sa bouteille (une autre car sa cave en est pleine)...après...je ne sait pas....généralement c'est à ce moment que je déconnecte
How do Americans manage to spend so much on a wedding? Do they borrow from a bank? What kind of bank loans money to someone who already has student debt and can't afford to go see a doctor when they are sick or take an ambulance when they break a limb, and who might get shot for accidentally stepping on someone's lawn?
That getting shot for accidentally stepping on someone's lawn - not at all common. I would say, exceptionally rare. I've lived in the US for many decades, as a native, with a large family and many friends with the same profile. Not saying it never happens. Saying it's really, really rare.
@dianedavidson5283 Glad to hear it. But you won't deny that the risk of getting shot for whatever reason is higher than in most countries that aren't in the middle of a war.
@@lucasbrelivet5238 I asked Google: What country are you most likely to get shot? According to Our World in Data, the top three countries with the highest gun death per capita are El Salvador, Venezuela, and Guatemala. These countries have rates of 35.5, 32.75, and 28.23 respectively. In general, these countries are characterized by high levels of crime, violence, and drug trafficking.
@@lucasbrelivet5238 And also: The U.S. has the 28th-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 4.31 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021. That was more than seven times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.57 deaths per 100,000 people - and about 340 times higher than in the United Kingdom, which had 0.013 deaths per 100,000.
@dianedavidson8536 Yeah, sadly there are still countries much worse than the US. I sure am not going to any of those.
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In Hungary too traditionally kidnap the bride for 1 hour and the groom must find her. :) The bride wears something new, something old, something blue and something borrowed. The groom cannot see the wedding dress before the wedding. female guests are not allowed to wear white clothes, black clothes and often red clothes. The wedding witness often later becomes the godparent of the child that will be born
In my French family we used to replace the onion soup with a chamber pot filled with champagne (representing urine) and fake dejections made of chocolate.
We had a small wedding with somewhat around 15 guests. After everyone had left, we wanted to pay for dinner but were told that someone already had taken care of that. 7 years later, and still everyone present that night denies to have taken the bill...
Fist fights between sister of the bride and a guest she thought was trash talking about the bride was one of the oddest wedding experiences when I was there.
My wife and I had a wedding where only a couple friends attended - my mom couldn't attend (different country), same for her mom and sister, my father and her father already passed away. We spend around 300€ that day at a restaurant (Nuremberg, Germany) and another 1800€ on a party a couple months later with around 50 people attending. 5 years in and we're still going strong. I read somewhere, that the cost of the wedding is anti-proportional to its stability and duration. So who knows.
I think the big difference between a US and French wedding is the focus . In France, as you pointed out, the focus is on the quality of food , the reception because you want your guests to be happy and have fun. In the USA, today the focus is way too much on the bride and "her" day , as if all the guests were just an audience , there is emphasis on the bridesmaids' role because they are supposed to be at the service of the bride, hence the " bridezilla" trend on social media.
I got married a couple of months ago lol Since we’re not from the same country, we got married at the city hall without my family or anyone I know ! In spite of that, I was stressed and hated the entire thing 😂 For sure that wasn’t the happiest day of my life 😂 Don’t get me wrong ! We love each other so much but we hated the idea of weddings ! I find them absolutely useless so here we are ! Happily married without inviting anyone to my “wedding” 😂
In the Philippines, during the couple's first dance, guests and sponsors take turns clipping or pinning actual cash, or tokens of their gift, on the bride's dress. Basically, it's for good luck and actual starting fund for the newly weds. This is outside of the boxed wedding gifts. The tokens pinned on the bride's dress can be like a key, representing a car, or a piece of rope, representing a water buffalo (especially if the couple were already gifted with a plot of farm land).
Will say as a Scot, I've not heard of the messing up of the bride & groom. A lot of grooms will hire their suits or kilts (kilts aren't cheap!), so messing them up is really not an option unless you earn a good 100k per year.
Usually in France the friends and family of the bride and groom follow them honking the car horns and they drive around the town honking. People don't really mind the noise😊, but if you live near the Marie it might get annoying.
Do I love being married to my wife....yes Do I think it was worth it....let's see now, we don't currently own a home and had we used the money for a home back in 2017 instead, something tells me we would have been much better off. So NO, not worth it one damn bit.
Average wedding cost is $30K but the median cost is $20K. The median is a better number to use as the highest cost weddings (which are crazy expensive) affect the average. So, half of all weddings in the US cost less than $20K and the other half cost more.
I am Scottish and have been to lots of wedding none had the tradition you mentioned! There are many traditions that you don't see anymore because they aren't practised anymore. I think getting the garter in an American wedding is weird! It seems very improper for the groom to take it off surrounded by family and friends. I saw my sister have it done, and it was uncomfortable to watch! I never got married and been together with my other half for 30 years 😂😂
I agree with the garter being awkward. We didn't do that. He wouldn't have suggested it, and I would have been very against it. It's super creepy. I'm a US citizen. Another thing just occurs to me - the "traditional" vows include "love, honor, and obey" and I assure you I would NOT have agreed to "obey." I think it was changed to "love honor and cherish" or something. About 30 years ago.
I agree with the vow issue! That would be changed lol. I don't get the amount of brides and grooms men! I don't get how He needs that many to help him ready! Lol. As a child in Scotland it was and still is just on a smaller scale to do a "poor oot" or pour out. Throwing change out to the "poor" children as a act of kindness and to bring luck to the marriage. It was quite good as a child extra pocket money! 😅
At my church, most of the church is made up of the Pastor’s family, (he has about 14 great grandchildren so you get the idea of how big it is) and when one of them gets married, after the wedding, for some reason, they have a tradition, where the men take the groom, zip tie the bottom of his pants, undo his belt, and poor bird seed down his pants… yeah.
In Italy people used to cut the groom's tie during the party (maybe to raise money from the guests by giving them parts of the cut tie). The most stupid thing which I witnessed was doing the same thing with the groom's shoe...
In most countries, it's also tradition for the venue, catering, guests and other services to either refuse to take part or actively try to stop a wedding as long as it is between people of the same sex/gender. A truly "beautiful" time-tested tradition (sarcasm).
I'm French & have attended several French weddings, but haven't eaten any onion soup during any if them. I know it used to be a custom, but I don't think ppl do it that much anymore. unless I didn't witness it bc I went to sleep before the onion soup 😅
Name is Lous and from Ghana. Well weddings are beautiful. I just advice my brothers that hey if you dont have the money to spend on it then make sure to stick to a tight budget but if you are having and willing hey why not got for an expensive one. I have seen low budget weddings that are so memorable same for High expensive weddings. It all boils down to your pocket.
Been to a lot of weddings, most in the U.S. But I have been to a Chinese wedding with a mix of western ceremonies which kinda confused me since majority of the individuals are Chinese. No one other than a few friends who are westerners were invited. The majority of the celebrations are Chinese traditions except for the crying cause that was taken out. But the matching of days of when is best to get married base on both persons lunar birthdates, to giving gifts to your neighbors and friends to tell them you’re getting married, to kidnapping the bride to be from one home to another home and negotiations (which is likely done for show) to then walk the entire way from a village or neighborhood to the place you’d be getting married (granted a lot of places are far when it comes to the countryside, so everyone would take a car after the walk). Three dress changes for the bride while two suit changes for the groom. 1 dress is the western wedding dress, 2 traditional Chinese dress, 3 for the after party. So the events we organized to have bride wear traditional Chinese to then walk down the aisle in white then changed for after party. I’m just glad I haven’t been part of a long see wedding, 3 days was enough.
She proposed to you? What do you think is the reason that you didn't propose, and did you feel ready to accept if you hadn't been planning to propose to her? Wishing you both all the happiness in the world and many years of good health.
@@superpieton y a un peu de ça et pourtant pas que 😉. Ça peut donner des idées et en même temps, quand je ne suis pas dispo je suis tout autant content de faire travailler mes collègues à travers la France 😊! Après tout, n'avons-nous pas le parfait instrument pour rendre une cérémonie magique? 😇 (pssst, cest encore plus beau avec de la flûte ou du violon, mais chut 🤫)
We have a lot of wedding ceremonies, one of my favourites is when the bridesmaids steal and hide the groom's shoes, and the groom has to negotiate money with the bridesmaids to get his shoes back.
Being an India I was literaly crying to know that brides first get married to trees and then replaced by human. I've never even heard of a tradition like once and I'm honestly so glad that I won't have to get married to a tree at some point of my life.😭🌳🌳👰♀👰♀
I love this video. its so funny. and I love all the videos. so very informative.. but havent gotten married yet.. this has actually helped me figure out ways around getting things done, at a cheaper cost lmao.. thank you for this.. American here.. going to have a poor mans wedding because well... homeless for now. hopefully its temporary.. 4 years later.
the kidnapping is or was from the people who were decendent from soviet or the bulkan..are called the sharkas... I don't know the english term of that but yeah this is part of their culture
mine was ad a wedding for my aunt her hubby got a nipple pircing insted of a ring. was filmed by a German news station. we were in the Netherlands near the border
The weirdest tradition for me by far, is the insanely stupid amount of money people splurge on it, which they simply don't have or can't afford. Worse of all, it's imposed by other people. As if it's some kind of competition?
Nice way to already start your marriage by having a huge debt? It just makes zero sense to me.
My view is that it's not up to me to judge how, why and when people want to get legally bonded together. It's their lives, not mine.
If I'm invited,great! If not, also great!
But you can also view it as one of the great challenges that a couple can go through and learn to compromise. How to spend money? Who is important to who? Planning organizing. I don't think you feel forced to spend money that you don't have but you should talk to your partner about what they want and save towards to that goal.
Honestly getting married during Covid was one of the best ways I saved money lol. We spent less than $1000 and had just our parents and grandparents that could make it. Had our friend officiate and all the other guests were on a zoom call streamed on the TV in the living room where we had it
just hope you could give the kiss without a mask ^^
Its so funny, I was a wedding DJ and sound engineer for about 750 weddings in South Africa, and honestly, it was so amazing to see the difference between, English (South African), British, Afrikaans, French, Dutch, Hippie (thats a thing), Indian, Jewish, Xhosa, Zulu, Congolese, Nigerian.... Every single one, was both beautiful and horrifying. Thank you so much for this video!!!
Have to gotten to do a Vietnamese wedding in the states? They are very different, but fun
Congrats!!! Marriage is great - my wife and I just had our 40th anniversary. Weddings can be fun and also crazy. I hope yours is everything you want! Keep in mind it’s just one day out of your lives.
Amen to that! So often it seems that the focus is on the wedding and not on the life together, which is days then weeks then months then years. Not just the day of the wedding.
My husband and I are close to 30 years.
I went to a wedding that played instrumental versions of break-up songs at the reception and each guest received an ashtray with the happy couple's names hand-embossed in it by the bride.
French, our wedding: 1500€: 1000€ for the restaurant (24people: only close friends and close family), 500€ for our rings (mine -gold- was on sale, and his -silver- was made out of my own concept). No suit for him, just a nice jean shirt. And my dress was handmade, by myself, with jean fabric.
Short ceremony at the town hall, restaurant till midnight(no party, no DJ, just an homemade playlist on a usb) and that's it. No photographer either.
We did put a box for money (it pais us a quick honeymoon in a fancy hotel in Annecy), no gifts, no weird traditions, except the one for drinking champagne...but it wasn't champagne, it was a local fizzy white wine.
Not all weddings are big, not all weddings are expensive... What matters is to do it with people you cherish and who you know cherish you in return.
It was 11years ago.
Last year, we celebrated our 10years at the restaurant, 28people, 2000€. I do hope we won't spend a thousand more money for our 20th!
In certain parts of Finland it is a custom that a small group of uninvited people arrive at the wedding reception, and are wholeheartedly welcomed, fed and given lots of alcohol for the whole evening.
Also someone has to kidnap the bride, preferably using an uncommon vehicle, like a horse carriage.
Mon mariage a coûté genre 1500$ canadiens tout inclus lol. On a été à un restaurant médiéval qui prenait tout en charge, animation musique et gâteau compris ! Tout le monde s'est bien amusé, on s'est mariés dans notre sunday best et tout le monde était encouragé à juste s'habiller comme ils voulaient, et c'était trop bien
Our wedding $2000. 8 guests at my parents house, catered food, flowers, $60 white dress and $30 blue shoes, and I went to a hair salon for a pretty French chignon. Did my own makeup, we had our own cameras. And we signed our self uniting marriage papers. No officiant needed. Didn't need a dance party or DJ. Just the company of the closest family members related to us. We celebrated with friends when we saw them later on. Saved money to buy a house.
This!
Best move ever 👌
Without a doubt, a couple that lasts a long time together. And if not, at least you spent little money on the ceremony..
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Only 8 people and 2 000 $?! How? I had over 100 people and paid waaay more for the dress, makeup and the rest and yet I paid around 11 000 €. We had a great DJ, catered food with 5 warm meals, fresh flowers everywhere, ballroom, rented car etc. We didn't have one thing - big wedding cake. We paid around 120 $ per person with all that and you double of that. With all the gifts we managed to actually win some money and it wasn't the goal...
@@stopkaralublin7578 if we did a regular wedding we would have had 50-60 people. But we wanted to buy a house asap. The party later on in our home with the same people we would have invited costs less.
I dreamed of having a wedding last night. It was a bit chaotic (even though very small), but I was happy and it was nice.
Good night everyone
6:42 the tree probably also has a far more impressive wood that stays hard for much longer...
Ayo what
Here in Southern Germany, the bride is also kidnapped traditionally, but by the groomsmen. They take her to a local bar and drink until the groom comes and finds her. The groom has to do some drinking challenges to free his bride and has to pay the tab for everyone as a ransom. After that everyone is drunk and the party can begin. Or so they say. We opted out of that tradition 🙈
Thank you Loic for posting this video today! I was just told that I have a non cancerous brain tumor which I did surgery for yesterday. This video has really brightened my day!
Best to you in your health!
Best wishes to you!
@@taurtura7677 Thank you!
"And will those be for a wedding?"
"Uhhh nooo?" 😂😂😂
Clinking while keeping eye contact is hard. In my country, it is expected to not only do that but also say the name of the other person right before clinking. And boy is it awkward when the other person smiles and calls you by your name but you can't recall the other persons name so you just say "cheers".
😂 Awkwaaaard
Thank you for making our lives livlier, bien plus belles car plein de rires et sourires. Delight and joy to your marriage always, and many good laughs -- n'en parlant même pas de plusieurs autres occasions pour une bonne soupe à l'oignon après qui ne seront jamais plus après pour cette raison là !
Back in days of old - 1955 - my parents got married at city hall with their best friends as witnesses. Dad's family had a reception two months later and another by mom's family a month after that; the families lived well over 3,000 miles/5000 km apart as airplane flights were not in the budget and this was before the Eisenhower Interstates were built.
I'm not sure both families ever met.
6:35 As an Indian, I know that's true but you got one thing wrong, it's not just brides who have to do it, even some grooms have to do it due to certain astrological things... (I still don't understand astrology)
Npt especially weird...
But at my sisters wedding (we are germans) there was an auction for her shoe. My brother made a little play for the guests. Because my sister is a chemist, he said "I accidentally got chemicals on it and now its a toy truck! We need money to turn it back!" and then they went up and down the hall to recieve little donations from the guests. They also had a wedding news magazine... Well, we called it "Hochzeitszeitung" with little stories about the bride and groom and a little quiz and stuff and you could buy it for a donation. It was quite cute.
The only thing is: I'm not sure if it's a german tradition or if it comes from the UdSSR, cause my parents (and most of my extended family) grew up there, so some traditions may have got mixed up... I also heard of a cousin who had to pay to get his bride from her "kidnappers" while doing some stuff (if I remember correctly, the money came from the family helping him and all of the money would go to the newlyweds afterwards)
And my sister and her husband had to do a few quests like cutting a big heart out of linen and then step through it together (with little scissors to make it more difficult and entertaining) and I heard of a tradition were you have that stuff that lays around after you cut wood with a saw ("Sägespäne" in german) mixed with coins and the pair has to search for all the coins that are spread in the ground.
... Most traditions I heard of are those were money is collected from all the guests and gets then to the pair to have a good start. Or pay off the wedding hopefully.
Oh! And one thing I remember vividly was the last dance of the day, where my sister danced with her godfather while the women hold her veil above her. It was into the midnight hour.
And I know of the practice to dance the waltz with your significant other and then with your parents and your parents-in-law... I forgot the line up, but something like that. And when all of them danced a bit, everyone is welcome to join. Don't know if that's a german tradition or just a normal thing at a wedding...
If I get to marry, I will probably take all the good stuff to enjoy it and have my guests enjoy it. For my family it was always "just family at the wedding" but my sister and brother for example had also friends and coworkers... My extended family is way too big to have them all invited and I see why "a small wedding" is still quite big in numbers... Well, I'm gonna see who will be necessary to be invited and who not, if it gets to it xD
And in germany it is also necessary to have the official documents signed at the city hall.
Some do only that and party afterwards, without church involved. A cousin of mine did that and partied at another date with a preacher doing the chuchy stuff (without having to be in a church, but the same vibe)... So it comes down to how you like it in the end. Some even marry quite quickly and party afterwards, cause it gives you a discount on taxes if you're officially married. So some do it like in december to have the benefit and the party big in summer or spring or even later~
Indeed it was lesser known tradition.. because as an Indian even I didn't know that some one actually married tree 😐
Bro 'manglik' log karte he
Wood all day and night, not just morning wood.
@@timotheelegrincheux2204 🤣🤣🤣
@@Hariya-b5g I don't know but I am pretty sure not all Indians do that as in the video he says "some lesser known traditions" but India has variety of traditions. People will generally not understand that because most of the countries its just one thing all over. So most of his followers who are not from India would think that all Indians marry trees. That's why I put that statement.
My husband and I decided to ditch the huge party. We had a small ceremony under a tree planted by my grandfather. $500 total for food and decorations and entertainment. The money that would have gone to a traditional American wedding went to a family car. Neither of us regret starting off our life debt free with money in our savings.
6:58 In India, we also do that but we steal the grooms shoes not kidnapping the bride. And then, the groom and family have to negotiate, it's generally done by sisters in law (sisters of the bride) and sometimes by brothers in law (brothers of the bride), although only the sisters get the money. And it's considered a mandatory tradition and even if you save the shoes from being stolen, you still have to give money as tradition...
I’m in the wedding industry and I always love when people talked about wedding cuz I just think and it pays my bills lol I have definitely worked wedding where I thought they could have saved money by doing a backyard wedding
Tu peux faire une vidéo sur les écoles en Frances et aux USA et le système de notation, please ? C'est la vidéo que j'attend le plus !
0:30 your face 🤣 that's the face I make while discussing marriage etc etc with my parents 😅
Had a town hall wedding in the fall of 2020. Me, my wife, and one friend who was good with a camera. It was the best decision of my life. Due to a town hall mistake we got married for free. It only cost us the rings. 😊
Bride-kidnapping is a common tradition in Hungary too. The groom needs to solve some fun tasks to prove his love and get back the bride. :)
9:35 Exactly what I though. Spending so much money when so many people struggle to survive is indecent.
Anyway great video as usual ! 👍
There are two ways to give money to someone: Directly or through employment. As long as you're spending money it doesn't matter and paying someone to do something has better results, unless of course they can't work. It's a misconception that money spent on such a wedding doesn't end up to people, because it does through through jobs. Even if it goes through other companies or rich people it still ends up helping people. That's how the economy works. The only problem is when paying a company or an individual who won't spend the money but that's usually not the case. In fact, creating more jobs means that the ratio of working people to jobs improves, which means that salaries go up.
Kidnapping the bride is common in Austria and at least the southern part of Germany as well.
Usually after the meal, in a moment when the the groom is less attentive, some friends will take the bride to a nearby restaurant or bar and continue their celebration there. (It is advised to leave a hint with someone staying with the original party, where they are actually going.) The groom and maybe some of his friends, best man, etc. then must search the bride. As soon as they find the escapees, they may shortly join the remote party, then the groom pays the bar's or restuarant's bill, and everybody returns to the original site.
Not only in Romane, I'm from Finland and I know we had that same kidnapping the bride tradition here. I think it's not that common anymore but I've been on a finnish wedding when I was a kid where the bride was stolen. This happened after the ceremonial at the church, it happened at the party afterwards, I remember it being weird but people where laughing...
If I was the one who paid my own money for that whole luxurious party then at least let me enjoy every moment of it and don't even try to withdraw me from that expensive fun for any minute!
In Germany the tradition of kidnapping the bride also exists… she’s taken to a local bar and the groom has to pay the tab for the drinks of the bride, her kidnappers and other patrons when he finds her 😅
@@kristinatimblin1766 yeah I know that it exists and some ppl do that here, too. Just saying that for me personally I'd be p*ssed off if anyone dared doing that to me/ my bride. But we don't care about most traditions anyway. Happily unmarried for over 17years now. 😄
In Austria we also have the tradition of kidnapping the bride. Although here it's called "Braut-stehlen" which translates to "stealing the bride". The thing that is different here is that the groom wont know where the bride is. He dresses up like an elderly lady and looks for his wife. And all that is accompanied by an ensemble of the local brass band who are playing a few "Landler". (those are short traditional pieces of music) When the bride is found the groom can put off the costume of that elderly lady and the party continues until the morning.
Also forgot to say: in French marriage (and in Belgium too), when you get married you can do a list of what you would like your guests to offer to you (that day or later) OR you can put a special box where you have dinner or the party where people can put money for you (to finance a big trip or begin to buy a house or whatever you want).
La fameuse liste de mariage...
Bridal registries are super common here - a list of the plates and towels and whatever which the bride and groom would like. Historically, made more sense when the couple was just launching from their parent's homes and didn't have any of that stuff.
03:03 - 03:14 In Italian we are less tragic. We simply call it"farewell to the bachelor/spinsterhood".😅 04:33 - 04:43 I discovered this thanks to the TV show"Faking It".😁
You haven’t seen a Lebanese wedding then. For people who are well off, it’s like going to the circus!
The average normal wedding will have some 200 guests, complete with fireworks, dancers, welcome drink with a pianist, full buffet. The works. But guests will still be making critical comments.
And I personally despise all that. I can have a great wedding day to remember without having to make down payments.
That's great that you're getting married. I've never heard of a left-handed wedding before. I am left-handed, so this might be important to me.
A left-handed marriage, also known as a morganatic marriage, is a marriage between people of different social ranks. In the context of royalty or other inherited titles, this prevents the spouse or any children born of the marriage from receiving the principal's privileges or position.
a few weird traditions from Germany include the kidnapping of the bride (like in that eastern European country you mentioned), the entire village coming by your house or wedding location and smashing porcelain in front of the door, including entire toilet bowls and sinks and the day you announce to get married a hunter shows up at your house and shoots 12 rounds of shotgun shells in the air out of which the groom has to drink a shot of schnapps, followed by the entire village showing up for more drinks served by the bride..... i am so glad i am no longer German :D
The bride "kidnapping" is done here in Austria too. Usually the best man and bride leave together during the wedding party, to go bar hopping. The best man has to keep buying the bride drinks and the groom has to go find her and "win her back", ideally before she's too drunk. 😂
8:20 Ce moment j'ai le vécu tel quel, au Canada!!!
J'ai demandé le prix pour la location des nappes de table pour mon mariage:
-J'ai besoin de 30 nappes de table pour un évènement, combien ça coûterait?
- 20$ chaque nappe, quelle est votre événement?
- un mariage
- alors dans ce cas, ça serait 250$ par nappe, plus 100$ de plus pour des frais de réservation.
- mais c'est la MÊME nappe blanche simple!!!
- oui, mais vous comprenez... C'est un mariage!!
Il faut juste ajouter le mot mariage pour que la facture soit gonflée! 😢
in morocco the wedding can last 7days and night and the wife mast change her dress 7 times a night
Whaaaat?! How much money people spend on that party? 😳😱🫣💸
The Same thing happens in algeria 😅😀🙂🥲
What a nightmare it's bad enough doing it for one day, let alone 7!
I just need that image of the person kissing the tree, because it would be perfect to send to friends without context
It was and often still is a way to insure that land and power and money are secure for the families or village or countries. And that girls are virgins when they marry and no longer cost money or insure a family line. Sometimes to hold war at bay. And consitutional weddings for royalty is a whole different ball game, law wise. Weddings weren't, and often still aren't about love and romance in large parts of the world, and in lots of families. That is a very Western and recent idea of marriage historicly speaking. Congrats on your upcoming wedding🎉. Great vlog
I’m buying the island of Skorpios for my wedding, then selling it as soon the the ceremony is over 😂 , not gonna let Onassis have anything on me
selon les régions en France le mariage varie (pas la cérémonie mais la fête) dans certaines régions (et aussi en fonction des moyens) ça ne dure que quelques heure et fini tard le soir...point final. J'ai personnellement été habitué aux mariages qui durent 2 à 3 jours :
vin d'honneur le matin du mariage, avant la cérémonie (comme ça les mariés sont déjà rincés avant la cérémonie)
cérémonie (donc en France la mairie et l'église et le petit verre pour monsieur le maire et le curé question de rester dans la tradition) et là
on passe à table (oui car il est déjà midi à ce moment là), le repas dure jusqu'aux environs de 18 ou 19h ou il y à toujours quelqu'un (un vieil oncle) qui dit qu'il faut commencer à se préparer pour le repas du soir (l'apéro bien évidemment...mais version mariage),
le repas du soir commence aux alentours de 22h (j'avoue il faut un sacré estomac),
les mariés disparaissent aux alentours de minuit quand le repas se termine (il faut déjà penser à ranger les plus imbibés de coté) et aux alentour de 3 ou 4h du matin on part à la recherche des mariés pour la soupe à l'oignon (oui à leur recherche car ils se planquent pour éviter d’êtres dérangés pendant qu'il consomment leur mariage...ou qu'ils essayent parce qu'eux aussi sont imbibés).
Une grande partie de l'assemblée part se coucher vers 5 ou 6h du matin et se fait réveiller par les gamins aux alentours de 8h, tout le monde prend un café (tellement noir que la cuillère tient debout toute seul dans la tasse mais il y à toujours un tonton qui pense à ouvrir la bouteille qu'il garde depuis quelques années (en général il l'a eu pour son mariage et le contenu est relativement....intense d'un point de vu degré d'alcool) et là on commence à se préparer pour le repas de midi qui se résume au restes de la veille mais il y à la gamelle de fayots sur la table avec les tranches de pain de campagne grillées qu'il faut généreusement beurrer avant d'y rajouter les fayots en question
le temps de manger tout ça et la deuxième journée touche déjà à sa fin
23 heure 40 12 le deubième bour se permine quand le tonton propose de terminer sa bouteille (une autre car sa cave en est pleine)...après...je ne sait pas....généralement c'est à ce moment que je déconnecte
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the kidnapping of the wife also has become a custom in romanian weddings, influenced from the roma population
How do Americans manage to spend so much on a wedding? Do they borrow from a bank? What kind of bank loans money to someone who already has student debt and can't afford to go see a doctor when they are sick or take an ambulance when they break a limb, and who might get shot for accidentally stepping on someone's lawn?
That getting shot for accidentally stepping on someone's lawn - not at all common. I would say, exceptionally rare. I've lived in the US for many decades, as a native, with a large family and many friends with the same profile. Not saying it never happens. Saying it's really, really rare.
@dianedavidson5283 Glad to hear it. But you won't deny that the risk of getting shot for whatever reason is higher than in most countries that aren't in the middle of a war.
@@lucasbrelivet5238 I asked Google:
What country are you most likely to get shot?
According to Our World in Data, the top three countries with the highest gun death per capita are El Salvador, Venezuela, and Guatemala. These countries have rates of 35.5, 32.75, and 28.23 respectively. In general, these countries are characterized by high levels of crime, violence, and drug trafficking.
@@lucasbrelivet5238 And also:
The U.S. has the 28th-highest rate of deaths from gun violence in the world: 4.31 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021. That was more than seven times as high as the rate in Canada, which had 0.57 deaths per 100,000 people - and about 340 times higher than in the United Kingdom, which had 0.013 deaths per 100,000.
@dianedavidson8536 Yeah, sadly there are still countries much worse than the US. I sure am not going to any of those.
In Hungary too traditionally kidnap the bride for 1 hour and the groom must find her. :) The bride wears something new, something old, something blue and something borrowed. The groom cannot see the wedding dress before the wedding. female guests are not allowed to wear white clothes, black clothes and often red clothes. The wedding witness often later becomes the godparent of the child that will be born
First and last are true, all the other are American customs making their way into the wedding business here.
In my French family we used to replace the onion soup with a chamber pot filled with champagne (representing urine) and fake dejections made of chocolate.
Beurk!!
in norwegian to get married is called " GIFT " wich translates to "POISON"
auf Deutsch, it's that, and in English, a present...As with all thingas, itnot the things, it's what we do with it, and how we choose to see it eh ; )
Vraiment incroyable la vidéo!!
I now want to hear about a Zombie Wedding?
Does the bride eat the groom's brain?
Is there a Shamon?
0:10 People don't get upset about their own wedding. They just regret it too late after!
"Weddings are stupid, and a waste of money" - Change my mind
I beg to differ. Only expensive weddings are stupid and a waste of money. Smaller, cheaper weddings are fine.
I agree
I agree :)
@@Hollytargaryen will you marry me?😂
Not gonna change your mind. You do whatever you want buddy
We had a small wedding with somewhat around 15 guests. After everyone had left, we wanted to pay for dinner but were told that someone already had taken care of that. 7 years later, and still everyone present that night denies to have taken the bill...
Fist fights between sister of the bride and a guest she thought was trash talking about the bride was one of the oddest wedding experiences when I was there.
My wife and I had a wedding where only a couple friends attended - my mom couldn't attend (different country), same for her mom and sister, my father and her father already passed away.
We spend around 300€ that day at a restaurant (Nuremberg, Germany) and another 1800€ on a party a couple months later with around 50 people attending.
5 years in and we're still going strong.
I read somewhere, that the cost of the wedding is anti-proportional to its stability and duration. So who knows.
I think the big difference between a US and French wedding is the focus . In France, as you pointed out, the focus is on the quality of food , the reception because you want your guests to be happy and have fun. In the USA, today the focus is way too much on the bride and "her" day , as if all the guests were just an audience , there is emphasis on the bridesmaids' role because they are supposed to be at the service of the bride, hence the " bridezilla" trend on social media.
I got married a couple of months ago lol
Since we’re not from the same country, we got married at the city hall without my family or anyone I know ! In spite of that, I was stressed and hated the entire thing 😂
For sure that wasn’t the happiest day of my life 😂
Don’t get me wrong ! We love each other so much but we hated the idea of weddings ! I find them absolutely useless so here we are ! Happily married without inviting anyone to my “wedding” 😂
In the Philippines, during the couple's first dance, guests and sponsors take turns clipping or pinning actual cash, or tokens of their gift, on the bride's dress. Basically, it's for good luck and actual starting fund for the newly weds. This is outside of the boxed wedding gifts. The tokens pinned on the bride's dress can be like a key, representing a car, or a piece of rope, representing a water buffalo (especially if the couple were already gifted with a plot of farm land).
French, married to an Indian, we sure had to make choices. And decide whose family and friends won't be able to come to the wedding.
I can already feel this is going to be great 😂😂😂😂
Will say as a Scot, I've not heard of the messing up of the bride & groom. A lot of grooms will hire their suits or kilts (kilts aren't cheap!), so messing them up is really not an option unless you earn a good 100k per year.
Loving these new format videos! ❤️
I was serving the head table at a wedding and the bride burst into the kitchen a had a fit about the meal.
😅1 000 000 000$ for the wedding : NO PRESSURE !!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Common law wedding is the one you didn't know you were married until you are 😂
Usually in France the friends and family of the bride and groom follow them honking the car horns and they drive around the town honking. People don't really mind the noise😊, but if you live near the Marie it might get annoying.
Do I love being married to my wife....yes
Do I think it was worth it....let's see now, we don't currently own a home and had we used the money for a home back in 2017 instead, something tells me we would have been much better off. So NO, not worth it one damn bit.
Average wedding cost is $30K but the median cost is $20K. The median is a better number to use as the highest cost weddings (which are crazy expensive) affect the average. So, half of all weddings in the US cost less than $20K and the other half cost more.
I am Scottish and have been to lots of wedding none had the tradition you mentioned! There are many traditions that you don't see anymore because they aren't practised anymore. I think getting the garter in an American wedding is weird! It seems very improper for the groom to take it off surrounded by family and friends. I saw my sister have it done, and it was uncomfortable to watch! I never got married and been together with my other half for 30 years 😂😂
I agree with the garter being awkward. We didn't do that. He wouldn't have suggested it, and I would have been very against it. It's super creepy. I'm a US citizen.
Another thing just occurs to me - the "traditional" vows include "love, honor, and obey" and I assure you I would NOT have agreed to "obey." I think it was changed to "love honor and cherish" or something. About 30 years ago.
I agree with the vow issue! That would be changed lol. I don't get the amount of brides and grooms men! I don't get how He needs that many to help him ready! Lol. As a child in Scotland it was and still is just on a smaller scale to do a "poor oot" or pour out. Throwing change out to the "poor" children as a act of kindness and to bring luck to the marriage. It was quite good as a child extra pocket money! 😅
At my church, most of the church is made up of the Pastor’s family, (he has about 14 great grandchildren so you get the idea of how big it is) and when one of them gets married, after the wedding, for some reason, they have a tradition, where the men take the groom, zip tie the bottom of his pants, undo his belt, and poor bird seed down his pants… yeah.
In Italy people used to cut the groom's tie during the party (maybe to raise money from the guests by giving them parts of the cut tie).
The most stupid thing which I witnessed was doing the same thing with the groom's shoe...
In most countries, it's also tradition for the venue, catering, guests and other services to either refuse to take part or actively try to stop a wedding as long as it is between people of the same sex/gender. A truly "beautiful" time-tested tradition (sarcasm).
I'm French & have attended several French weddings, but haven't eaten any onion soup during any if them. I know it used to be a custom, but I don't think ppl do it that much anymore. unless I didn't witness it bc I went to sleep before the onion soup 😅
🤣 I went through that! Next time invite me!!!😆
Name is Lous and from Ghana. Well weddings are beautiful. I just advice my brothers that hey if you dont have the money to spend on it then make sure to stick to a tight budget but if you are having and willing hey why not got for an expensive one. I have seen low budget weddings that are so memorable same for High expensive weddings. It all boils down to your pocket.
In Finland kidnapping the bride is also pretty common or was at least in the past. 😁
In Germany, too.
In Slovenia too. And also stealing the brides bouquet.
In Austria as well. 😊
"Stick to the Tree!"
Been to a lot of weddings, most in the U.S. But I have been to a Chinese wedding with a mix of western ceremonies which kinda confused me since majority of the individuals are Chinese. No one other than a few friends who are westerners were invited. The majority of the celebrations are Chinese traditions except for the crying cause that was taken out. But the matching of days of when is best to get married base on both persons lunar birthdates, to giving gifts to your neighbors and friends to tell them you’re getting married, to kidnapping the bride to be from one home to another home and negotiations (which is likely done for show) to then walk the entire way from a village or neighborhood to the place you’d be getting married (granted a lot of places are far when it comes to the countryside, so everyone would take a car after the walk). Three dress changes for the bride while two suit changes for the groom. 1 dress is the western wedding dress, 2 traditional Chinese dress, 3 for the after party. So the events we organized to have bride wear traditional Chinese to then walk down the aisle in white then changed for after party. I’m just glad I haven’t been part of a long see wedding, 3 days was enough.
Not gonna lie, onion soup sounds good about now.
4:20 That image is going to haunt me at night now..
I heard it’s a tradition in France that everything edible gets gathered up and smooshed into a chamber pot which the couple eats out of together.
She proposed to you? What do you think is the reason that you didn't propose, and did you feel ready to accept if you hadn't been planning to propose to her?
Wishing you both all the happiness in the world and many years of good health.
Bon, si tu veux rendre ton mariage exceptionnel, n'oublie pas d'engager un harpiste 😉
Ça sent l'autopromo... 😂😂😂
@@superpieton y a un peu de ça et pourtant pas que 😉. Ça peut donner des idées et en même temps, quand je ne suis pas dispo je suis tout autant content de faire travailler mes collègues à travers la France 😊! Après tout, n'avons-nous pas le parfait instrument pour rendre une cérémonie magique? 😇 (pssst, cest encore plus beau avec de la flûte ou du violon, mais chut 🤫)
We have a lot of wedding ceremonies, one of my favourites is when the bridesmaids steal and hide the groom's shoes, and the groom has to negotiate money with the bridesmaids to get his shoes back.
In Denmark it is tradition to cut the toes off the grooms socks (while he wears the socks) and tear pieces of the brides veil.
Being an India I was literaly crying to know that brides first get married to trees and then replaced by human. I've never even heard of a tradition like once and I'm honestly so glad that I won't have to get married to a tree at some point of my life.😭🌳🌳👰♀👰♀
I love this video. its so funny. and I love all the videos. so very informative.. but havent gotten married yet.. this has actually helped me figure out ways around getting things done, at a cheaper cost lmao.. thank you for this.. American here.. going to have a poor mans wedding because well... homeless for now. hopefully its temporary.. 4 years later.
Go to France ; )
@@gwirgalon3758 Im told France doesnt like my kind.. im of Canadian decent lol..
but I dont care what France thinks. I love them and canada.
6:58 it’s giving Dwight Shrute
The "kidnapping tradition" used to be practiced in Azerbaijan as well)
T’as pas parlé du pot de chambre qui est aussi une tradition assez répandue des mariages en France 😁
you are the best
You look adorable clean-shaven! Cute enough to marry ❤
Marriage is a business. It’s not about love.
I'm Kenyan (Kikuyu tho not Masai) & I didn't know about the whole spitting on the bride's dress thing, so thanks!... I guess?
That was fun! Now: teach me, as an American, how to say “Rouen” properly. 😂
the kidnapping is or was from the people who were decendent from soviet or the bulkan..are called the sharkas... I don't know the english term of that
but yeah
this is part of their culture
French Onion Soup is my favorite soup.
In the south of taiwan they used to hire topless women to walk around during the weeding banquet.
mine was ad a wedding for my aunt her hubby got a nipple pircing insted of a ring.
was filmed by a German news station.
we were in the Netherlands near the border
Unusual, I think!
Waiting untill you learn about marriage arrangements in Africa...