Wedding news
LawPunjab Panel Approves Bill to Reform Christian Marriage LawIndustryEvolved Catering Baltimore Enters Fall Wedding Season With New Five Star Reviews From CouplesMass weddingsHoms Hosts Mass Wedding for Over 100 Children of Martyrs - Syria FocusMass weddingsMore than 100 sons of martyrs join mass wedding in HomsCustomsOCU holds evening of wedding rituals at seized Cherkasy cathedralDowry and giftsAndhra Pradesh High Court Quashes Dowry And Cruelty Case Against NRI In-Laws Over Lack Of Sanction And Specific Allegations – The Legal AffairLawOnline marriage registration on Diia has been expanded: who else will be able to get married via smartphoneIndustryWedding season boosts hotel demand, bookings pour into 2027Mass weddingsSC: Marriage void due to false claims of cohabitationLawOnline marriage registration to curb child marriage, polygamy: law ministerLawPunjab Panel Approves Bill to Reform Christian Marriage LawIndustryEvolved Catering Baltimore Enters Fall Wedding Season With New Five Star Reviews From CouplesMass weddingsHoms Hosts Mass Wedding for Over 100 Children of Martyrs - Syria FocusMass weddingsMore than 100 sons of martyrs join mass wedding in HomsCustomsOCU holds evening of wedding rituals at seized Cherkasy cathedralDowry and giftsAndhra Pradesh High Court Quashes Dowry And Cruelty Case Against NRI In-Laws Over Lack Of Sanction And Specific Allegations – The Legal AffairLawOnline marriage registration on Diia has been expanded: who else will be able to get married via smartphoneIndustryWedding season boosts hotel demand, bookings pour into 2027Mass weddingsSC: Marriage void due to false claims of cohabitationLawOnline marriage registration to curb child marriage, polygamy: law minister
EveryShaadi

About EveryShaadi

EveryShaadi is a free guide to how people marry: the rites, vows, dress, henna, music, gifts and feasts of weddings in every country, community and city. It has pages on 186 wedding traditions so far, and 1,858 more are on the list to be written. The name means what it says: every wedding, from everywhere.

The aim is simple: anyone should be able to look up a wedding custom and come away knowing what it is, where it is kept, by whom, how, when and why, whether they are marrying, attending, planning or just curious.

How it is arranged

Weddings differ by community as much as by country: a Punjabi Sikh wedding is not a Tamil Brahmin one, a Han wedding is not a Hui one. So every tradition is filed by region, country and city, and carries its community where it has one; by kind (rite, vow, betrothal, gifts, dress, adornment, music, feast, blessing, play, family, place and modern weddings); by stage of the wedding (from finding a match to the day after); by concept (bride price, the dress, the veil, vows and more, each compared across countries); by faith; and by symbol (fire, rice, henna, the ring, the knot). The wedding calendar lists wedding seasons, lucky days and the days weddings are not held, which day to marry covers the day of the week, and the glossary explains the words. EveryShaadi is about customs, not recipes or wedding planning advice.

Pictures and drawings

Photos come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, each credited beside it. Where there is no free photo, the page shows a pattern drawn by EveryShaadi from the kind of custom and its region. Those drawings are patterns, not pictures of the wedding. No image on EveryShaadi is made by an AI image generator.

What is live

Today around the world is rebuilt continually: which wedding seasons and days are on, what the holiday lists record for this date, the usual hour for the ceremony, the feast and the reception in each country (the wedding clock: it says nothing about whether a wedding is under way), and a wedding tradition of the day. New pages are written every day, and every page is re-read against its sources over time.

How a page is made

Names and facts come from Wikidata and Wikipedia. The text is written afresh with AI assistance from those sources only: the facts are kept, the wording is ours. Every page is compared with its source article, and a page that repeats a run of the article's words is rewritten or held back. Each page names its source and links to it and to its licence. A page is published only if it has enough to say; anything that falls short waits for a person to review it.

Care

Weddings are living and often sacred. EveryShaadi describes each custom as the people who keep it would describe it, does not mock or sensationalise it, ranks no faith or country above another, gives no medical advice, and attributes contested claims. Where a practice is contested or harmful, such as dowry, bride kidnapping, child marriage or forced marriage, the page says plainly what it is, where it is or was practised, what the law says and what harm it has caused; it is never presented as a custom to admire, and no page tells anyone how to carry it out. Legal positions, for example on same-sex marriage, are dated and may change. If a page about your wedding tradition is wrong, write to us and we will fix it.

Who is behind it

EveryShaadi is published by ClearTrust, a company that measures traffic quality for the advertising industry. ClearTrust pays for EveryShaadi and keeps it free. EveryShaadi is part of the ClearTrust IVT-Free Publication Network. IVT stands for invalid traffic: visits from bots and other fakes, which the network's sites are screened for. Editorial decisions are not for sale: sponsored placements are always labelled.

Get in touch

To suggest a wedding custom, correct a page or ask a question, write to everyshaadi@cleartrust.cc.

The weekly EveryShaadi

Every week: one wedding tradition from somewhere new, the wedding days coming up around the world, and one idea explained.