Thursday, November 6, 2014

Your Wedding Has Nothing on These Strange Weddings from Around the World.

Weddings are often the most important day of our lives. The preparation and planning all (hopefully) amounts to a wonderful day. Yet it’s an occasion that affords few surprises.


If you want to go a little nuts and throw a wedding that your friends won’t expect, take a page out of these extreme weddings from around the world. Your guests will thank you for the laughs.



1.) Polterabend- Smashing Dishes: Germany


1.) Polterabend- Smashing Dishes: Germany


From sawing logs to breaking plates, those German couples sure know how to throw a weird wedding.


2.) Shooting The Bride: China


2.) Shooting The Bride: China


In China, grooms shoot their brides with three (blunted) arrows and then break them. We




3.) Kidnapping the Brides: Romani


3.) Kidnapping the Brides: Romani


4.) Blackening the Bride: Scotland


4.) Blackening the Bride: Scotland


Being tied to a tree, taken drinking, and having rancid trash and goo poured over you are just some of the things a bride needs to endure to prove her love.


5.) Marrying a Tree: India


5.) Marrying a Tree: India


6.) Beating the groom’s feet: Korea


6.) Beating the groom’s feet: Korea




7.) Cross-dressing: Russia


7.) Cross-dressing: Russia


8.) Délicieux Toilette La Soupe: France


8.) Délicieux Toilette La Soupe: France


9.) Shaved brides: China


9.) Shaved brides: China


10.) Spitting on the Bride: Massai nation, Kenya


10.) Spitting on the Bride: Massai nation, Kenya


11.) Croquembouche Sky High Cake: France


11.) Croquembouche Sky High Cake: France


12.) Henna Tattoos: India


12.) Henna Tattoos: India


(via Emlii / BuzzFeed)


All set to fire that wedding planner and put on something awesome? I know I am…when I’m ready, that is.



Your Wedding Has Nothing on These Strange Weddings from Around the World.

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