nationality and traditions

Original post by soontobecruz

Jan 01, 2010 02:26 PM

What is you or FH's nationalities? Also if you are incorporating any traditions from your nationalities what are you doing?

Clover23 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:05 PM

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I'm 100% Italian
FH is 50% Irish, 25% german, 25% Italian

jordan almonds... my mom insists. not sure about music yet

cateydee Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:06 PM

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i'm italian and fh is dominican- we are just incorporating food and music.

we will be doing some kind of dominican food at the CH (dont ask what yet) and our MC speaks italian and spanish and will be singing in those 2 languages during dinner.

laurenb1083 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:09 PM

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I am italian and puerto rican and my fh is italian and irish. We are definitely going to try to incorporate a little bit of everything into our wedding. We are having bag pipers at the reception and a lot of spanish music. Still working on other details...

Corinne Ann Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:18 PM

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i am 50% italian and 50% puerto rican and FH is 75% italian and 25% English...

we are going to do general wedding traditions...

StaceyWill Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:20 PM

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I'm 75% Italian and 25% German, FH is 100% Puerto Rican. I want to do the Tarantella and of course there will be some Salsa music.

rdubs Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:24 PM

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We are both Jewish (if we consider that a nationality for this thread ) and will be having a traditional reformed Jewish ceremony!

Can't wait for the hora and hava nagila!

mrsdraskin2009 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:43 PM

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I am French and Scottish and FH is German and Irish, there are a few traditions we will incorporate.

Passing out dragees to guests (chocolate nougat almonds).

A trousseau (a trousseau is like a hope chest that is filled with clothes, linens, etc to help the bride start her married life).

We will have a croquembouche (French celebration cake) on our cake table.

My grandparents had a traditional Scottish 'banns of marriage' (like an anouncement) printed in the local newspaper in the Highlands, in our ancestral village.

Kissing the rings before putting them on at the ceremony.

We will have a bagpipe processional of the Highland Wedding song.

JenBill61210 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 03:50 PM

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i am italian, FH is half irish and italian. i am doing the traditional italian dances at my wedding and having some italian songs... and i also want to try and incorporate a bagpiper in our wedding either at the ceremony or reception.

mikendeanna Posted: Jan 01, 2010 04:02 PM

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Italian, irish and Spanish

es2189 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 04:15 PM

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we are both jewish...fh is israeli. we are having a traditional(ish) reformed jewish ceremony and we are having a klezmer band play at our ceremony and cocktail hour.

mzmahagony Posted: Jan 01, 2010 04:20 PM

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We are both WestIndian so its going to be lots of reggae soca and drinking liquor..lol

Jna2010 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 04:20 PM

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Were both greek our entire wedding is like greek traditions! Lol jordan almonds, traditional dances, the making of the bed before the wedding, and basically everything

irisheyes23 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 04:40 PM

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I'm Irish and German and FH is Puerto Rican so there will be LOTS of alcohol and salsa dancing!! lol

GR2010 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 04:46 PM

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FH is polish and a mess over other nationalities and I am just Italian. We're not really doing anything to incorporate either!

BriansWifey Posted: Jan 01, 2010 09:17 PM

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fh and i are both armenian. we're getting married in an armenian cathedral and will be having some armenian music at the reception.

MrsHandsome2Be Posted: Jan 01, 2010 09:21 PM

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i'm german.. irish & scottish

fh is italian and a lil polish

we're not incorporating our culture into the wedding

FutureMrsSoltan Posted: Jan 01, 2010 09:24 PM

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im 50% irish and then italian,german and swiss

fh is irish and german

we are having the bagpipers at the church and alot of drinking

tmcnair414 Posted: Jan 01, 2010 09:27 PM

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I am 50% Italian and the other 50% is a mix of Irish, Native American and French Canadian. My FH is 100% Portuguese. We are having both Portuguese and Italian cuisine served at our wedding. We are also incorporating traditional Portuguese and Italian dances.

soontobecruz Posted: Jan 01, 2010 09:32 PM

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Posted by tmcnair414

I am 50% Italian and the other 50% is a mix of Irish, Native American and French Canadian. My FH is 100% Portuguese. We are having both Portuguese and Italian cuisine served at our wedding. We are also incorporating traditional Portuguese and Italian dances.

FH is portugese also!!! We are having a number of portugese dishes at the CH and italian and portugese wines. I am thinking of making all the music at the CH Portugese also. I am italian and Irish. All the other food is mainly Italian. Plus Jericho Terrace is so Itaian.

Did you hear about the Portugese Cow Bell tradition ???