A Tradition from Romania

There are a treasure trove of rituals and traditions that originate from Romania and people from different regions practice these in varied ...

Placement of the Wedding Ring

Welcome to week 27 of 52 Wedding Tradition/Rituals in 52 Weeks,  Have you ever asked yourself why the wedding ring is placed on the third fi...

Week 19: Blackening of the Bride

Welcome to week 19 of our "52 traditions/rituals in 52 weeks". Yes it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like – blackening of t...

Week 18 - Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed & Something Blue

Welcome to week 18 of our "52 traditions/rituals in 52 weeks." One of the most common and recognised wedding traditions has to be ...

Week 14: The Coin / Arras Ceremony

Welcome to week 14 in our ’52 Rituals/Traditions in 52 Weeks’ The Arras or coin ceremony consists of 13 golden coins which are exchanged ba...

Week 11 - A Korean Wedding Tradition

Welcome to Week 11 in our ’52 Rituals in 52 weeks’ In keeping with our promise of taking you around the world with these posts, this week w...

Week 10 'Ransom of the Bride' - A Russian Tradition

Welcome to week 11 in our '52 Rituals in 52 Weeks' The Russians have so many absolutely fantastic wedding traditions it's hard t...

Week 9 - Unity Candle Lighting Ceremony

Welcome to week 9 of our ' 52 traditions / rituals in 52 week' this week we are bringing to you a demonstration of a 'Unity Ca...

Week 8 - Greek Traditions

Welcome to Week 8 in our ’52 Rituals/Traditions in 52 Weeks’ This week we are taking a look at the Greek Tradition  where the bride smashes ...

Week 6 - Traditional Smoking Ceremony

Welcome to  week 6  of our  ' 52 Traditions / Rituals in 52 weeks'  this week we are bringing to you a 'Traditional Smoking  Cer...

Week 4 – The Giving of the Bride

Welcome to ritual number 4 in our ‘52 Rituals/Traditions in 52 weeks’ We’re pretty sure that all of you would be familiar with this one, but...

The Importance of Rituals

Seeing as we are going to be spending the entire year bringing you Wedding Rituals/Traditions, I wanted to tell you a little about why this ...

Week 3 - Ring Warming Ceremony

Welcome to Ritual/Tradition number 3 in our 52 Rituals in 52 Weeks This is a fairly common, but very sweet ritual that you may have seen don...

The Wedding of Carla and James

Welcome to the wedding of the gorgeous Carla and James. In October 2009 James proposed to his beautiful girlfriend Carla on top of the Eiffe...