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Many wedding traditions from around the world can be integrated into any wedding, whether or not the couple is of that culture or religion.
Catholic
Catholic brides and grooms take marriage preparatory courses at their church.
A traditional wedding takes place during a full mass.
The priest blesses the Catholic couple's wedding rings.
Often the bride places her flowers in front of the statue of the Virgin Mary.
The Catholic wedding allows for a large extended wedding party in the form of readers, altar boys, deacons, and ministers of the Eucharist.
Chinese
For a time before the wedding day, the bride spends time in seclusion with her friends. She does not see her family or her fiancee during this time.
A new bed was always installed in the couple's home on the day before the wedding. Children were invited into the room to provide an omen of fertility. The bed was scattered with fruit, which the children could take.
The "Hair Dressing Ritual" was a very important part of the wedding day preparation. The bride would take a pumelo (grapefruit) scented bath and wear new underclothes, before her hair was dressed in the style of a married woman by a woman who was considered to be lucky.
The bride traditionally wears red shoes and a red veil over her face.
In some regions, the groom eats dinner with the bride's family. He is often served hard- or soft-boiled eggs. He breaks the yolk, to symbolize the breaking of the bride's ties with her family.
The female attendants were chosen with care being taken that their horoscope animals in the Chinese Zodiac were compatible with the groom's.
The bride and groom drink wine from the same goblet and eat sugar molded in the form of a rooster.
Contemporary Chinese weddings are held on dates which are determined using a variety of factors. Fortune tellers use the birth dates of the bride and groom to determine the best date for the wedding. Many almanacs can be found which also can provide this information.
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