Category Archive

traditions

Folks having offbeat weddings often wrestle with questions like, do I have to include wedding traditions? What if I don’t want my dad to walk me down the aisle? What if I don’t like the garter toss? What if I don’t want to do a cake cutting (or even have cake!?). This archive is our collection of posts about how to choose which wedding traditions to include, and which to skip.

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Bread and salt: a Polish wedding tradition meets lakeside DIY magic

Julia and Matthew ditched ballrooms for a woodland dock on the Lithuanian border, where vodka met pavlovas and parents greeted them with the bread and salt Polish wedding tradition. DJs turned newlyweds, they built a festival of campfires, pierogi, and sunrise dance floors. It wasn’t perfect, it was personal… and that’s what made it unforgettable.

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This couple rocked their Scottish wedding with a heavy metal bouquet

Jodie and David turned a traditional Scottish wedding into something quite unique: a metal bouquet, a hip flask harness, battle jackets, a drumskin guestbook, Rammstein-themed cake, a teapot sand ceremony, and guitar pics as favours!

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How do I have a New York micro wedding? Take notes from this couple!

Looking to have a New York micro wedding? The pandemic made tiny weddings all but mandatory, but there are plenty of happier reasons to keep it small. Witness how Dejuanah and Sam did it right on the 22nd floor!

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Should your parents pay for your wedding? Why one bride says NO THANK YOU

Historically, parents paying for a wedding has ugly cultural baggage. For this reason, I am against the idea of anyone’s parents being obliged or asked to pay for their children’s wedding.