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All wedding traditions

650 traditions so far, best known first. 440 more are on the list to be written. Filter by region, kind and stage of the wedding.

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🇹🇭 Thailand and 5 moreBride price Wealth paid by the groom or his family to the bride or her kin to formalize a union.Gift custom · Engagement and betrothal 🇰🇪 KenyaKoito A Kalenjin dowry negotiation ritual that marks the formal agreement between families.Gift custom · Engagement and betrothal

🇨🇳 China and 2 moreChinese pre-wedding customs三書六禮 (sàam syù luhk láih) The traditional betrothal rituals of the Book of Rites that prepare a Chinese marriage.Betrothal · Finding a match

🇿🇦 South AfricaUkuthwalwa A South African practice of abducting a woman for marriage, now largely illegal and contested.Betrothal · Finding a match

🇳🇬 NigeriaLefe The presentation of gifts from the groom to the bride in Hausa weddings.Gift custom · The weeks before

🇰🇪 Kenya and 1 moreAyie The Luo bride price ceremony where the mother accepts payment and agrees to the marriage.Gift custom · Engagement and betrothal

🇺🇸 United States and 4 moreHope chest A wooden chest where a bride collects linens and gifts before her wedding.Attire · Engagement and betrothal 🇨🇳 ChinaHebao荷包 (Hébāo) A traditional Chinese embroidered pouch used for gifts, medicine, and romantic tokens.Adornment · Engagement and betrothal 🇰🇷 South KoreaChaesang채상 (Chaesang) Woven bamboo boxes used to store dowry items in traditional Korean weddingsGift custom · Engagement and betrothal

🇨🇾 Pano Lefkara, CyprusLefkara laceLefkaritika The intricate white cotton embroidery from Cyprus that forms a bride's essential dowry collection.Attire · Engagement and betrothal

Photo credits on this page

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

Lefkara lace: Cyprus Tourism CH, CC BY 2.0, source
Bride price: Пимоненко Николай Корнилиевич, Public domain, source
Chinese pre-wedding customs: Anonymous ( China ) Unknown author, CC0, source
Lefe: Useendk, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
Ayie: SteveRwanda, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
Ukuthwalwa: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Public domain, source
Hope chest: Poul Friis Nybo, Public domain, source

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