what is a traditional wedding?
156336
it depends on how you look at it...it can be traditional in my family but it might be really weird to you...so i think its really an opinion
742707
I did, and I also was a bridal consultant at a few.  Alternative weddings are big these days, and I love doing them because they show the personality of the people involved instead of a string of traditions that have no meaning anymore.\n\nFor my wedding, I wore a beautiful blood red silk and black chiffon dress, had black magic roses everywhere, had the ceremony and reception at an old cabin surrounded by gardens and redwood trees, and we wrote our own vows, based on old Celtic vows.  Everyone loved it, even those in  my family that traditional Christians.
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If you want a fancy ceremony, go for it.  A nice one would be in a park.  VERY inexpensive.  Or in a greenhouse.  I had mine there and they took care of everything for a VERY low price and even helped me find a minister.  I think it was like $100 and they set up the chairs and flowers and alter.  It was so beautiful.  Then we had our reception at a decent restaurant that had a buffet line.  The whole wedding only cost about $500 which is actually really cheap.  And it was wonderful to top it off.  You could get a teenager to do the music.  A friend to take pictures.  You dont need a lot of money to have an incredible wedding.  Just some imagination is all.
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I don't think the beer barrell polka is so important in real German weddings.  One tradition I find interesting is Polterabend.  On an evening not long before the wedding, the bride and groom have a party with their friends in which they smash a lot of dishes for good luck.
162695
You invite the entire community, as well as the church members. As for the actual ceremony, different religious groups have different ones, talk to your preacher/pastor/etc. He or she will know exactly what is called for.
5836
Today, the tradition of a honeymoon following nuptials has, long way from its original meaning. Today's "happy ending" to the wedding event is a far cry from its much different beginnings. The word honeymoon has its roots in the Norse word "hjunottsmanathr" which was anything but blissful. Northern European history describes the abduction of a bride from neighboring village. It was imperative, that the abductor, the husband to be, take his bride to be into hiding for period of time. His friends assured his and her safe keeping and kept their whereabouts unknown. Once the bride's family gave up their search, the bride groom returned to his people. This folkloric explanation presumably is the origin of today's honeymoon, for its original meaning meant hiding. \n\nThe Scandinavian word for honeymoon is derived, in part, from an ancient Northern European custom in which newlyweds, for the first month of their married life, drank a daily cup of honeyed wine called mead. The ancient practices of kidnaping of bride and drinking the honeyed wine date back to the history of Atilla, king of the Asiatic Huns from A.D. 433 to A.D. 453. \n\nSo that leaves us with the question of where the "moon" in the word "honeymoon" originates. One piece of folklore relates that the origin of the word moon comes from a cynical inference. To the Northern Europeans the terms referred to the body's monthly cycle and, its combination with honey, suggested that not all moon's of married life were as sweet as the first. British prose writers and poets, in the 16th and 17th centuries, often made use of the Nordic interpretation of honeymoon as a waxing and waning of marital affection.
771945
Traditional, classic.
502803
Asian wedding...cool.
329428
Is it similar to a wedding ceremony? If so then just go by that. If it is different you could still use one of them. I think that is really nice.
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Tradition is that the woman wears the "engagement" ring, and when the couple gets married, the woman gets the "marriage" part of the ring (band) and the man gets his ring. \n\nIt's a tradition, but I think its a worthy one.  The man is the one who has made the proposal and PROMISES to marry the woman.  He indicates this promise by giving her a symbol of his promise.  She, in turn, indicates that she also accepts the promise by wearing the engagement ring.\n\nGenerally, there is a time between when two people decide to marry and the actual celebration, so what fills in the gap ??  It's a time of transition and it's called the engagement period. \n\nDuring this time, the woman is the one who would suffer the most emotionally, if he would decide to bail out of it.  So everytime he sees his ring on her finger, it reminds him to honor her, and of his promise to her.  He is to remember his love for her everytime he sees the ring he placed on her finger.  Knowing guys, they need the reminder. And I'm a guy.\n\nIt's also a message to other guys who see the ring that they need to stop pursuing this woman, because it is basically a BIG HINT to dopey guys who would try it. \n\nThe wedding bands, then, when placed on each other's left hand, symbolize the beginning of the life together, permanently, as a couple.  It happens in church, in front of God and everybody, who serve as "witnesses" to the beginning of this new life.\n\nWhy would both of you wear the rings now ? Ya ain't married until you're married. \n\nI recommend taking these little steps of tradition. It is a huge buildup to the celebration of marriage itself, the party after, and the wedding night. (Very romantic and erotic, actually). \n\n(If you want just one ring, then the wedding band can be soldered together with the engagement ring after the wedding is done.)
742769
because some people like tradition
1072731
Gay weddings are by definition  nontraditional
798215
It's for weddings and such...not funerals.
926885
Engagement ceremonies vary tremendously depending on cultural backgrounds and traditions. You'll have to be more specific.
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(m)\n\nwedding / wed \n\nA wedding is a marriage ceremony which is held in church or a registry office and also includes the party or special meal which follows the ceremony. All of this usually happens on your wedding day. \n\nThere are a number of other wedding compounds that are associated with wedding day: \n\nThe newlyweds had told everybody that they wanted no wedding presents as they were emigrating to Australia. \nThe predominant colour at Sophie's wedding was creamy white. Her wedding dress was this colour and the icing on the three-tier wedding cake was this colour too. \nIs it true that in Britain you wear your wedding ring on the third finger of your left hand? \nA silver wedding is celebrated after 25 years of marriage and a golden wedding after 50 years. \n \n \n \n     \n If you wed someone, you marry them, but wed is not used very much nowadays as a verb as it is rather old-fashioned. It can sound quite effective however, because it is unusual. Sometimes it has a poetic ring to it: \n\nWe got wed soon after the baby was born. \nI shall never wed as I like to be independent. \n \n      marriage / marry / get married \n\nMarriage describes the relationship between husband and wife or the state of being married: \n\nThey enjoyed a long and happy marriage. \nMost marriages these days do not last. \nThe bride's parents did not approve of Victoria's marriage to George. \n \n \n      If you marry someone, that person becomes your husband or wife and we use the verb marry in preference to wed normally.\n\nHowever, even more usual than marry is get married. This use of get with a past participle is a very common structure in contemporary English and is used across a range of common expressions. It has the same sort of force as reflexive verbs have in other languages. Thus in English we would say: Don't get lost! NOT Don't lose yourselves! Consider the following:\n\nI married the man next door / I got married to the man next door. \nThey didn't get dressed until two o'clock in the afternoon. \nI didn't bother to get washed as I knew I would be working on the farm. \nRemember, it's a big dark wood. Be careful not to get lost. \nWe had known each other for fifteen years before we got engaged. \nI never get invited to Sarah's parties. \nWe got married on 10 June, but by the beginning of the autumn both of us knew that the marriage would not last and that sooner or later we would have to get a divorce / get divorced. \n \n      Interestingly, although we can say they married and they divorced as an alternative to they got married and they got divorced, we cannot say: they engaged. Here, only they got engaged is possible.
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This should tell you all:\nhttp://www.cascadiaweddings.com/trends_traditions/wedding_symbolism.asp
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You know, many of our wedding traditions come from strange things.  Originally weddings took place in June because that is when most people took their yearly bath and that made the wedding party more attractive by being less stinky (also easier to assemble a large group without folks fainting from stink).  The wedding bouquet also was related to our hygiene - the bride and brides maids would carry very aromatic flowers to camouflage any odor they would have due to infrequent baths.\n\nWhat I am trying to say is that many of the old customs don't really apply today, though they are still nice to observe.\n\nHaving said that, in all the weddings I have attended, I never heard that a veil indicated virginity - only the color of the wedding dress.  Pure white implies pure and virginal (which mean hymen membrane in tact - no intercourse i.e. penetration) Off white implies less than pure and darker than that implies previously married (my mother wore a light blue dress at her second wedding).\n\nSo where a veil if you want.  Where white if you want.  Your Virginity is your own private business.  Peace!