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What ethnic traditions are you incorporating into your ceremony and or reception??

beautyq115 Posted:

What ethnic traditions are you incorporating into your ceremony and or reception??

ChrissynRicky Posted:

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I'm Middle-Eastern, FI is Italian-American

Our ceremony is at my parish, and the mass will be in Arabic & English

As far as the reception, we'll play the tarantella (FI), and the debke (me)...both are circular dances...

ETA: we're also having a belly dancer
beautyq115 Posted:

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Anyone????

I want bag pipers...My cousin is on Pipes and Drums for the Police Dept...so I may ask him.
brooklynbridezilla Posted:

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My DH and his groomsmen wore Barongs, a traditional Filipino shirt worn at weddings and other fancy events.

JanuaryBride06 Posted:

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FH is Jewish and my family is off the boat Italian so on top of having an insane amount of food, we are doing the hora and the tarantella. I'm also having another one of my favorite Italian songs played (Ti Amo) and we're giving confetti (jordan almonds) as part of the favor.

STBH Posted:

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well my dad will wear a barong tagalog
FH will change into one during the reception
doing the ceremony will be doing the veil cord and arras
definitely doing the money dance
july06bride Posted:

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we are having our ceremony in english and spanish- fh is from ecuador

we will do the tarantella

EJSD2006 Posted:

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Posted by brooklynbridezilla

My DH and his groomsmen wore Barongs, a traditional Filipino shirt worn at weddings and other fancy events.




Holy crappola! I thought I was the only filipina on here! Yay us!!! No barongs for us though, my FH is italian-american (he calls it the paper shirt, LOL!) But we are doing the traditional veil and cord ceremony where we kneel before the Priest and he binds us together with a veil and cord to show we are one (FYI for those of you non-filipinos).
MrsStefan Posted:

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I am Ukrainian so we are getting married in a Ukrainian Catholic church. We will be wearing traditional crowns during a portion of the ceremony and we will be leaving a small communion size BoK at the alter to remember the Virgin Mary. The crowns are similar to that of the Greek tradition.

Goldi1021 Posted:

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All the typical (and old school traditional) Jewish stuff:

Yarmulkes
Ketubah
Bedeken/Veiling (private in Rabbi's Office - not in front of everyone)
Chuppah
7 Circles
7 Marriage blessings
Stepping on Glass
Yichud (privacy after ceremony)

Reception:

HORA BABY!!!
GET ME UP IN THE CHAIR.

We also want a violin as part of of our band/orchestra. It is so AWESOME to have a violin play the ethnic songs at a Jewish wedding - makes things sound very authentic.
Tarae Posted:

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I'm African so I am actually having a full traditional wedding the day before the western. I'll post pixes with my review.

Colleen1230 Posted:

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My sister had bagpipers, they were great, FM me if you want the info.

waterspout4 Posted:

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I'm Irish, I'll be drinking

He's Italian, and will be eating

MrsFudge Posted:

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Posted by waterspout4

I'm Irish, I'll be drinking

He's Italian, and will be eating




DITTO - but reversed!!!!
CTarantino Posted:

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Posted by waterspout4

I'm Irish, I'll be drinking

He's Italian, and will be eating



VogueBride Posted:

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Posted by july06bride

we are having our ceremony in english and spanish- fh is from ecuador

we will do the tarantella



i loove that!
VogueBride Posted:

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Posted by CTarantino

Posted by waterspout4

I'm Irish, I'll be drinking

He's Italian, and will be eating





hahahahahahhaa
vita930 Posted:

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We are having Polish (me) and Greek (FH) wedding...


We are having a Greek Orthodox wedding (church) in English and some Greek and then I will have my priest do the blessing in Polish (Catholic)...

I am having few Polish traditions at the reception and some Greek...there will be a money dance (polish tradition) and of course Greek dancing (Zorbas and others)...

It will be similar to the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding...lol...where there will be 400 Greeks and 25 Polish....lol... and lots of plate breaking!!!!
SIBride06 Posted:

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Posted by VogueBride

Posted by CTarantino

Posted by waterspout4

I'm Irish, I'll be drinking

He's Italian, and will be eating





hahahahahahhaa


That is too funny!!!
SIBride06 Posted:

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We are both Italian (and come from VERY old school Italian families) so we will be eating & dancing, eating & dancing eating some more, dancing some more.. dancing, eating.... you get it.

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