Regional and Religious Wedding Traditions

"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." A border bride can easily fulfill the first three requirements for a happy wedding, but the blue might be green, if she includes the dollar dance in her marriage traditions. Modern border weddings are a blending of old and new traditions, innovations in society and borrowed customs from both the Mexican and Anglo cultures.

This excerpt from "The World’s Story: A History of the World in Story, Song and Art" and "Vol. II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Palestine", describes an 1885 Persian wedding. Note: Many Western sources about Islamic countries exhibit what has come to be known as orientalism. The terms used ("Mohammedan" for instance rather than "Muslim"), and the attitudes exhibited by the writers need to be questioned by modern readers.

An explanation of traditional ukrainian wedding rituals from Natalie Kononenko, professor of Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Folklore at the University of Virginia. The site brama.com is a site dedicated to providing Ukrainian information and resources.

An explanation of the laws and customs of a Jewish Wedding from Ohr Somayach, a learning center in Jerusalem. For more than 30 years, Ohr Somayach has been instilling Jewish pride in university students the hard way – through knowledge. A world leader in Jewish outreach, Ohr Somayach has always understood that quick fixes for flagging Jewish identity don’t work. And that only Jewish learning can give a young man “ownership” of his heritage, and a deep, enduring sense of pride and identity.

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