what's the marriage habit in your country?

Im in Panama, and there are several traditions to each and different families here since its multicultural in my country. Id say, for the stricly panamanian, here is how it works. If you have the money, and both families aprove, (in this case, its the bride's family that takes care of it) it is planned with a year or a few months of anticipation. You choose the church or the temple or the house or the forest depending on what your faith and convictions are, the wedding dress or outfit and the outfit for the groom as well, invitations to be sent out and after ceremony go to some type of hoasting party in a luxurious hotel that will have different themes of music and a roast (joke at the bride and groom and their family in a respectful way), for the rich, you invite even the ones you dont know to prove your wealth. If you have the money, but one family disaprooves and the other does, then its you who pays for the wedding, wont be as good as the first type but it will be at some point luxurious. If your family is broke, but both families aproove, then a simple ceremony at the public registration office will do. You get married as a civilian, this is quite convinient for people who dont have a religion or dont have a specific faith, and they just go to each house of the family's matriarch or patriarch and have a nice party with only family and friends and no guests. It ends fast and honeymoon can begin real soon. If your family is broke, but a family disaprooves or both dont aproove, then you just state your vows amont the forest, no guest, no friends, no family, just you and your loved one to nature or God, depending on your faith and when you have money, to do it threw the public registration and just invite the ones you feel should be invited, now, the first vows are important that even though legally they dont see them as husband and wife, they are. And if you live in the country side, the entire village is invited no matter who you are and celebrate with a big feast.

I am from India. In India state wise the marriage procedure varies . In our part, the marriages last for 2-3 days. The preparation starts long ago. It is called fat big Indian wedding. People try to spend as much as they can dependent on what they can afford. In our part, food is main thing apart from the rituals. In our region, we serve lavish non veg dishes along with good vegetarian dishes on marriage and reception.

I find that ancient traditions are sometimes better and the ceremony and activities are much longer. Nowadays that life is moving in a much faster space, things are changing. Couples want to cut the celebration short. Some even are satisfied with just a simple registry marriage with two or three witnesses. Others are just celebrated with friends. Many are saying that there is no guarantee anyway that the marriage will last forever so why make a lavish celebration. have fun.

I live in Italy. In my country the woman is brought to church in a car and there she meets her future husband. It's considered bad luck for the husband to see his wife before the marriage (that lasts from morning to afternoon or evening). Riht after the marriage people gather to have lunch together, dance and party then the new newely weds go on honeymoon. I guess that's all. We usually have sme professional photographer hired to do the job or some relative that's skilled in this field. As for guest's gift: the couple will go to a shop from which they want presents and make a lis of what they want. The list is forwarded to relatives and they choose what to buy for them.

In Turkey it last for 2 days. First day, there is a special gathering at the bride's own mother house. They put some sort of a paint in the palm of everyone's hand. And the bride must be burst into tears, couse she is leaving her family :) Second day is the wedding day. Husband's family and husband comes to bride's home, to take to the wedding car. But the door just gots broken and bride can not come out of her room. In order to mend the door, of course money or a valuable reward must be given to bride's sister or brother, if not, to one of her relatives, who hides the door key. He or she must be settled with the reward. Otherwise "no wedding" haha. Wedding takes place in just less than 15 minutes and after that, everyone takes their queue to gives their best wishes and gift (gold or money) to bride and husband. That ceremony may last for hours depending on the number of visitors. After the ceremony, there must be a special event with lots of music and dance. Food and drink may be served. The husband's family is responpisble from the costs but bride's family has golden vote for the place of the ceremony. If they say that party must be at Hilton, then yes it must be there :) Our pre-wedding procedures are also very interesting. Boy's family comes to meet girl's family and asks for permission for a promise to marry. Then after a couple of months, engagement party occurs. Then a couple of months later, wedding takes place. My family asked for permission from my wife's family in October, we got engaged the same day, and married in next May. Yes we were knowing each other for more than 3 years and dating. We just wanted to go by the traditional way and joined the permission plus engagement process in one night. Of course we jumped over several traditions, If I write here, it should go hundreds of lines, yet this message is also very long. Sorry for taking your time. :)

we in india have different way of marriage function traditionally either bride or grooms family takes the expense (mostly brides family takes expenses expect some culture). now a days expenses shared by two families.marriage preparation starts from day of engagement sweets food jewels are main part after marriage the couples r taken to both their homes and r given milk n banana to drink n eat

hi friend, I am from india In my country marriages are made in heaven. In my country marriages made a traditional,different religious marriages. One week before marriage it will be a great festival for us to celebrate with all my friends,relatives to enjoy more.After marriage over lunch night marriage lady will go to husband's house.They get a lot of gifts.The marriage will attends the friends,relatives,special guest. This will happen in my country.. have a great day.

Hi, babyorchid Here in the Philippines, a wedding usually lasts less than a day but the preparation can take months, even more than a year. There would be a ceremony or the wedding rites, according to the couple's religion or preference, followed by a reception or banquet. Before, in-between and after that would be the picture-taking. There is actually a whole industry for weddings here. There are photographers, coordinators, wedding venues like hotel, restaurants and resorts, cake creators, florists and a lot more.

My country also is China,so the same to you! Which province do you come from? Nice to meet you!

church wedding then reception in at home to feed all the people in the village fiesta style! ;p

may be you know i'm comes from Bangladesh . and Bangladesh one of developing country. in our country 80% people live in village area. and there is a bad habit and bad mentality to arrange marry for boys and girls very earlier. in the city area most of boys and girls falling love in his/her student life. they may want marry each other some day. but our parents are not agree on it. our society is not support love. as its a Muslim country and very conservative so.now our peoples mentality going little develop. they start avoiding earlier marry. anyway about your discussion i don't thought you asking for the culture of marriage procedure. or how to fix a marry. may be later on, i will describe on it after another discussion which are ask for related.