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Wedding traditions of Oceania

Kava and the tapa cloth, the Maori powhiri and the Fijian lovo, Aboriginal ceremony and the Samoan fine mat. 16 traditions on EveryShaadi so far.

🇼🇸 Samoa and 3 moreʻIe tōga Prestige woven mats exchanged at Samoan weddings to honor family ties and chiefly status.Attire · The ceremony

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea and 5 moreSister exchange A marriage arrangement where two brothers each take a sister from the other family as their wife.Betrothal · Finding a match

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea and 5 moreSister exchange A marriage arrangement where two brothers each marry a sister from the other family.Betrothal · Finding a match 🇦🇺 Australia and 5 moreCelebrancy A profession of secular officiants who create personalised life ceremonies for people outside traditional religious or sModern · The weeks before

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The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Sister exchange: Wilses, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
ʻIe tōga: Sarah Kelemen, CC BY 2.0, source

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