A Look Into Wedding Customs From Around The World

A wedding, your wedding, is easily one of the most significant ceremonies that you will ever attend in your life. The act of procreation, something that is basically an animal instinct, is given dignity and institutionalized in keeping with the spiritual nature of human beings.

Among the different nations in the globe, many different symbols and rites meant to express those aspirations have been used at weddings..

A Look Into Wedding Customs From Around The World
An apple is dangled in between the newly weds in the ritual. Without holding the apple, they are supposed to take a bite from it at the same time. Although this has been performed millions of times, it never fails to elicit joy and laughter among the guests.

The disappearing apple act in Chinese weddings

In Colombia weddings, just after the bride receives the ring from the groom, bride and groom are each given a candle to light. With lit candles in hand, they approach a third candle and light it up with the candles they hold in their hands. After that they blow out the candles they have in their own hands. The ceremony is rich in meaning.


The two candles held in their hands stand for extinguished selfish concerns. On another level, the ceremony stands for the fact that both man and woman have to give something of themselves to create new life on earth, that part of them that dies finds life again in their offspring.

The Colombian candle of unity

There is a Colombian wedding ritual that is often seen in weddings. After the groom gives the ring to the bride, they both are handed two candles which they light.

There must have been a time in ancient Japan when couples were required to get drunk before committing themselves just to make sure that they were doing so from the deep within their hearts.

The fact that the families of the couple also turn to face one another signifies their approval of the union as well as the fact that wedding, to a certain extent, binds both families together.