Ethnic traditions in your wedding

Stolen from BHB. How are you all incorporating your heritage into your wedding?

My mom was born in Italy, came here when she was a teenager, and her family is very Italian so we are:

- having one of the readings in church in Italian
- having one of the prayers said in Italian
- having the program half in Italian/half English
- Playing a mix of ethnic Italian songs

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I'm half Italian and half Lithuanian. I dont know too much as far as wedding traditions for either of them but since I am 3rd generation American, I'm not doing anything ethnic.

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FH and groomsmen are wearing Barongs- Filipino's version of a tuxedo/formal wear.

I thought about doing the cord binding thing, but i don't know...

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We will have Italian and Greek music at our wedding. I am 1st generation Italian and FH is 1st generation Greek. We will be doing the 'confetti' as well... which is part of both cultures.

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well since most of our family and friends are Polish, the mass is going to be in Polish... I havent really thought about any other ethnic traditions to add, but I still have time

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Apart from me being born and raised in Ireland, FH is 75%Irish/25% Scottish, so the men (other than my father) will be wearing kilts. I am going to put a penny in my shoe and have a small horseshoe on my garter (little traditions) and we'll put an Irish wedding blessing on the Mass program. We are also having an Irish band so that we can do some set-dancing. Oh, and a piper at the Church. I think that's enough!

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I am having a spanish poem printed onto the 'program'.

I am also having spanish music played at the reception.

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Posted by Aga

well since most of our family and friends are Polish, the mass is going to be in Polish... I havent really thought about any other ethnic traditions to add, but I still have time

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Are you going to do the dollar dance? My mom's family is polish and they do it at every wedding and they think that we should do it at ours, but my FH and his family have never heard of it and dont want us to do it. I guess I was just wondering if anyone else will be doing the dollar dance?

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no we are not going to do it, I dont think I would be comfortable doing it...

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Posted by brooklynbridezilla

FH and groomsmen are wearing Barongs- Filipino's version of a tuxedo/formal wear.

I thought about doing the cord binding thing, but i don't know...

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i'm going to have a coin bearer, and i was thinking of also doing the candles, cord binding, and veil. i'm not really sure if i want to do all of them though, especially since we are not having a catholic ceremony, but i don't know if it's ok to just do some of them.

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I am African American and we definately 'Jumping the Broom'.

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i'm going to have a coin bearer, and i was thinking of also doing the candles, cord binding, and veil. i'm not really sure if i want to do all of them though, especially since we are not having a catholic ceremony, but i don't know if it's ok to just do some of them.

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How about a giant lechon? I am thinking about it , but I'm sure my hall would charge extra to carve it. BTW who is doing your makeup?

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It is so cool to read these ideas and how people bring culture and tradition into their ceremonies.

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Irish (Me)....bagpiper
Italian(FH)...cookies, music

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I'm russian, so we are going to have Vodka on each table and shot glasses as part the favor

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Posted by brooklynbridezilla


How about a giant lechon? I am thinking about it , but I'm sure my hall would charge extra to carve it. BTW who is doing your makeup?

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haha. my family would love it. we were actually thinking about doing a rehearsal dinner with filipino food (cooked by my grandmother) and chinese food (cooked by FI's mom). we would order the lechon though.

i haven't booked anyone for make-up yet. do you know anyone good? i got a make-over last week, and the lady messed up my eyeliner. me eyes are hard to do.

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Posted by winnietoots

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Posted by brooklynbridezilla


How about a giant lechon? I am thinking about it , but I'm sure my hall would charge extra to carve it. BTW who is doing your makeup?

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haha. my family would love it. we were actually thinking about doing a rehearsal dinner with filipino food (cooked by my grandmother) and chinese food (cooked by FI's mom). we would order the lechon though.

i haven't booked anyone for make-up yet. do you know anyone good? i got a make-over last week, and the lady messed up my eyeliner. me eyes are hard to do.

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I love the Filipino/Chinese rehersal dinner idea!

Dina from Beautiful Possibilites and Jillian from Gorgeous Faces did my makeup, and I am having a hard time deciding!

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its so interesting reading abt all of these!
i feel like there are so many traditions in jewish ceremonies - do i really have to do alll of them?? the ones i am doing are
1- im not seeing him the whole week before the wedding
2- were doing an unveiling before the ceremony called a bedekken. its basically me sitting in a chair and he comes in for a sec and unveils me to make sure its really me. hehehe
3- at some point in the ceremonyi know i gotta walk around him seven times
4- breakin the glass - we all know that one im sure.
hmmm i think thats abt it. we are also supposed to fast the day of the wedding but i'm not so sure abt that one.... i dont wanna pass out after our first dance. imagine??

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We are having a bagpiper since he is Scottish and Irish and I am Irish so we thought it would be nice to have outside the church.

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Posted by jonsgirl

its so interesting reading abt all of these!
i feel like there are so many traditions in jewish ceremonies - do i really have to do alll of them?? the ones i am doing are
1- im not seeing him the whole week before the wedding
2- were doing an unveiling before the ceremony called a bedekken. its basically me sitting in a chair and he comes in for a sec and unveils me to make sure its really me. hehehe
3- at some point in the ceremonyi know i gotta walk around him seven times
4- breakin the glass - we all know that one im sure.
hmmm i think thats abt it. we are also supposed to fast the day of the wedding but i'm not so sure abt that one.... i dont wanna pass out after our first dance. imagine??

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7 times with both mothers leading you around him under the chuppah....

Also, if you are the last child to leave the house, you have your parents sit on the dance floor with wreaths around their heads and everyone dances around them....

Also, liftingt the couple and the relatives up on the chair...

My parents are hungarian/russian, but we're not really doing anything from that tradition except playing a few hungarian violin songs like the chardosh and russian classical songs during the CH