🇧🇴 Wedding traditions of Bolivia
2 traditions from Bolivia, best known first, across 3 cities and towns.
A wedding in Bolivia, stage by stage
The customs written up so far, in the order a wedding unfolds.
| Finding a match | Bride service |
|---|---|
| Engagement and betrothal | Bride service |
| The eve | Cueca |
| The ceremony | Cueca |
| Reception, dance and gifts | Cueca |
Cities, towns and villages of Bolivia
🇨🇱 Santiago, Chile and 3 moreCueca
A courtship dance from Chile and the Andes where couples trace circles with handkerchiefs to reenact a rooster and hen.Performance · The eve
🇵🇪 Peru and 4 moreBride service
Labor provided by the groom to the bride's family as part of the marriage arrangement.Gift custom · Finding a match
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Cueca: Manuel Antonio Caro, Public domain, source