Types Of Wedding Ceremonies

Types Of Wedding Ceremonies

There are so many types or kinds of wedding ceremonies. It differs from religious views, traditional inheritance and the community we live in. people from all religions, countries, and cultures have different marriage ceremonies and traditions.

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Below, you will read and know different types and styles of wedding ceremony.

Double Wedding


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A double wedding is when two wedding parties get married in the same ceremony. Usually this happens when two siblings are both getting married and decide to share the ceremony with each other. This is often done to share expenses or because a large family may have trouble getting together for two separate occasions that may be close together.

Military Wedding


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A military wedding is a wedding that is conducted by a military chaplain. A military wedding usually takes place on a military base, in a theater of war, or under wartime circumstances. Although they sometimes are, both the groom and bride do not have to be members of the military to have a military wedding ceremony.

Civil Wedding Ceremony


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A civil ceremony is a wedding performed by an elected or appointed government official (like a mayor, justice of the peace, judge, or other leader). Most civil ceremonies take place in public places like town halls or possibly even inside judge’s chambers.

Online Wedding


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Online weddings can refer to two different things. Online weddings are where the bride and groom cannot physically be in the same place so the legal documents are taken care of ahead of time and the ceremony is carried out via video over the internet. Standard weddings that are broadcast online are also sometimes referred to as an online wedding.

Mixed Wedding


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A mixed wedding usually refers to two people who have two different religions getting married. A mixed wedding is most often presided over by two different people with a clergy person from each of the couple’s faiths leads different portions of the ceremony. At some times in history or in some cultures the term “mixed wedding” has also meant people of different races becoming legally married.

Church Wedding


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A church wedding refers to any marriage ceremony that takes place in a church. Most church weddings are religious by nature and come with certain things you can and cannot do during the ceremony. These ceremonies are presided over by a religious leader, usually from the church the ceremony is in, and adhere to a certain religions beliefs.

Destination Wedding


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Most weddings happen in the hometown of either the bride or groom, or both. If the engaged couple and/or a majority of the guests attend a ceremony out of the area, whether it is at an extravagant site or not, it is considered a destination wedding.

Same Sex Wedding


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A same sex wedding is a ceremony that involves the marrying of two people who are both of the same sex. This can refer to either a civil ceremony that is legally recognized, or an unofficial ceremony in which the couple has the same opportunity to make pledges and celebrate with family and friends the way heterosexual couples would do.

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Popular Online Wedding Dress Quizzes

Here is a list of 4 wedding dress quizzes I found online. I find them quite funny, humorous and at the same time, a bit useful. So check them out and see for your self.

1. What Wedding Dress Should You Have Facebook Quiz

A nice wedding dress quiz application on Facebook. It asks your personal preferences to random things then based on that, it will show you what's the most probable wedding dress you will have.

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2. Which Beautiful Wedding Gown Are You?

A quiz that will translate your answers into the type of wedding gown you will be, in case you are not a human and you are a wedding gown.

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3. Which Wedding Dress Is Right For You?

It`s your big day. What should your wedding dress look like? This is a quick personality test.

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4. The Knot What's Your Wedding Dress IQ?

Do you know your satin from your silk shantung? How well do you know your train lengths? Put your wedding gown knowledge to the test and learn some lingo while you're at it.

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If you know more wedding dresses quizzes and test online, please share it on the comment section below.

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50 Wedding Fun Facts And Trivia

50 Untold Wedding Fun Facts And Trivia

Here is a list of 50 wedding funny facts and trivia for you to ponder upon. Enjoy.

For Wedding's Good Luck And Bad Luck

1. Brides tuck a sugar cube into their gloves during ancient Greek culture. They do believe that the sugar will sweeten the couple's union.
2. The English believe a spider found in a wedding dress means good luck.
3. In English tradition, Wednesday is considered the "best day" to marry, although Monday is for wealth and Tuesday is for health.
4. The groom carries the bride across the threshold to bravely protect her from evil spirits lurking below.
5. Saturday is the unluckiest wedding day, according to English folklore. Funny -- it's the most popular day of the week to marry!
6. Ancient Romans studied pig entrails to determine the luckiest time to marry.
7. Rain on your wedding day is actually considered good luck, according to Hindu tradition!
8. For good luck, Egyptian women pinch the bride on her wedding day. Ouch!
9. Middle Eastern brides paint henna on their hands and feet to protect themselves from the evil eye.
10. Peas are thrown at Czech newlyweds instead of rice.
11. A Swedish bride puts a silver coin from her father and a gold coin from her mother in each shoe to ensure that she'll never do without.
12. A Finnish bride traditionally went door-to-door collecting gifts in a pillowcase, accompanied by an older married man who represented long marriage.
13. Moroccan women take a milk bath to purify themselves before their wedding ceremony.
14. In Holland, a pine tree is planted outside the newlyweds' home as a symbol of fertility and luck.

Wedding Rings

15. Engagement and wedding rings are worn on the fourth finger of the left hand because it was once thought that a vein in that finger led directly to the heart.
16. About 70% of all brides sport the traditional diamond on the fourth finger of their left hand.
17. Priscilla Presley's engagement ring was a whopping 3 1/2-carat rock surrounded by a detachable row of smaller diamonds.
18. Diamonds set in gold or silver became popular as betrothal rings among wealthy Venetians toward the end of the fifteenth century.
19. In the symbolic language of jewels, a sapphire in a wedding ring means marital happiness.
20. A pearl engagement ring is said to be bad luck because its shape echoes that of a tear.
21. One of history's earliest engagement rings was given to Princess Mary, daughter of Henry VIII. She was two years old at the time.
22. Seventeen tons of gold are made into wedding rings each year in the United States!
23. Snake rings dotted with ruby eyes were popular wedding bands in Victorian England -- the coils winding into a circle symbolized eternity.
24. Aquamarine represents marital harmony and is said to ensure a long, happy marriage.

Wedding Fashions

25. Queen Victoria started the Western world's white wedding dress trend in 1840 -- before then, brides simply wore their best dress.
26. In Asia, wearing robes with embroidered cranes symbolizes fidelity for the length of a marriage.
27. Ancient Greeks and Romans thought the veil protected the bride from evil spirits. Brides have worn veils ever since.
28. On her wedding day, Grace Kelly wore a dress with a bodice made from beautiful 125-year-old lace.
29. Of course, Jackie Kennedy's bridesmaids were far from frumpy. She chose pink silk faille and red satin gowns created by African-American designer Ann Lowe (also the creator of Jackie's dress).
30. In Japan, white was always the color of choice for bridal ensembles -- long before Queen Victoria popularized it in the Western world.
31. Most expensive wedding ever? The marriage of Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum's son to Princess Salama in Dubai in May 1981. The price tag? $44 million.
32. In Korea, brides don bright hues of red and yellow to take their vows.
33. Brides carry or wear "something old" on their wedding day to symbolize continuity with the past.
34. In Denmark, brides and grooms traditionally cross-dressed to confuse evil spirits!
35. The "something blue" in a bridal ensemble symbolizes purity, fidelity, and love.

Foods And The Family

36. In Egypt, the bride's family traditionally does all the cooking for a week after the wedding, so the couple can…relax.
37. In South Africa, the parents of both bride and groom traditionally carried fire from their hearths to light a new fire in the newlyweds' hearth.
38. The tradition of a wedding cake comes from ancient Rome, where revelers broke a loaf of bread over a bride's head for fertility's sake.
39. The custom of tiered cakes emerged from a game where the bride and groom attempted to kiss over an ever-higher cake without knocking it over.
40. Queen Victoria's wedding cake weighed a whopping 300 pounds.
41. Legend says single women will dream of their future husbands if they sleep with a slice of groom's cake under their pillows.
42. An old wives' tale: If the younger of two sisters marries first, the older sister must dance barefoot at the wedding or risk never landing a husband.

Wedding Cocktail Parties

43. "Tie the knot" comes from Roman times, when the bride wore a girdle tied in knots that the groom later untied.
44. The Roman goddess Juno rules over marriage, the hearth, and childbirth, hence the popularity of June weddings.
45. Princess Victoria established the tradition of playing Wagner's "Bridal Chorus" during her wedding processional in 1858.
46. The bride stands to the groom's left during a Christian ceremony, because in bygone days the groom needed his right hand free to fight off other suitors.
47. On average, 7,000 couples marry each day in the United States.
48. Valentine's Day and New Year's Eve are the two busiest "marriage" days in Las Vegas -- elopement central!
49. The Catholic tradition of "posting the banns" to announce a marriage originated as a way to ensure the bride and groom were not related.
50. Stag parties were first held by ancient Spartan soldiers, who kissed their bachelor days goodbye with a raucous party.

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Interesting Wedding Facts And Trivia

Wedding Trivia - Strange Facts About Weddings
Awesome And Shocking Wedding Trivia.

Below are some of the weird and unique facts about wedding or marriage. I find this interesting because, I don’t really know some of this fact until I read them. So just like me, I know, somehow, you will be amazed and a little sort of shock will come into you upon reading this.

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June Bride - June Weddings

June bride refers to the fact more people get married in June than any other month. Contrary to popular belief, this tradition did NOT come about because of the dependable weather. And actually, really not a good month to get married in some Asian countries, like here in the Philippines because it was a rainy season/month.

According to some books, some classical scholars believe the month of June is actually named after Juno, the Roman goddess of marriage. Fast-forward a few centuries and you'll find another good reason to book a banquet hall for June: according to one old wives' tale, "Marry in the month of May, and you'll surely rue the day. Marry when June roses grow, over land and sea you'll go."

So maybe, that’s why the month of June becomes the month of marriage.

Bridesmaid And Bride Same Dresses

The reason bridesmaids all dress the same is, in ancient Rome, several of the 10 witnesses required to make a wedding legal, would dress identically to the bride and groom to confuse any evil spirits that might crash the ceremony or what they call the evil wedding crashers. I know its kind of odd, but yes, its according to the history book.

Wedding Rings

Pope Innocent III started the wedding ring tradition. It was being believed that, in the 13th century, Innocent instituted a waiting period between engagement and marriage, and insisted a ring be used in the wedding ceremony. Before that, rings were only used to seal an engagement (as well as other important agreements).
You May Kiss The Bride
A kiss is considered a way of legally binding and was used to seal a contract in the ancient Rome. And later on, a bride marrying in the Church of England had to kiss the minister doing the wedding ceremony before she could kiss her groom. Can you imagine that?

Wedding Throws

During weddings, there are so many things thrown through the air or to the newly weds including rice (for fertility), bouquets (for luck and protection) and, last but not least, garters (also for luck).
In the past, before the wedding dresses cost as much as small cars, people used to rip chunks of the bride's dress off for good luck.

A slightly related custom used to occur in long-ago England. The groom's friends would take off their socks and throw them; the first to hit the groom's nose would be the next to marry. Funny but yeah, it’s true.

And last but not the least, one of my favorite of all those wedding trivia;

Bride And Groom Wedding Ceremony Location

Normally, the bride stands on the left and the groom on the right on a Christian ceremony. So you want to know where and why did this custom originate?
Weddings used to be a lot more like the ones you watch on the movies or tele seryes - with ex-suitors and other thugs often rushing the altar to object on the wedding.

So to defend the bride and avoid the interference, the groom needed to keep his right hand free so he could grab his sword, thus the bride stood clear and to the left. This is from an ancient custom that is still being practiced today, but no more swords of course.

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