Wedding Traditions

To hear certain religious conservatives discuss wedding traditions, you’d conceive that they had been around since the beginning of time and never alter. They carry on about traditional wedding consecrates, the role of husband and wife in marriage, weddings, and everything else, giving the impression that it’s absolutely immoral to change a tradition that began at the dawn of time. Actually, the idea of a wedding tradition is virtually foreign to today’s culture. Traditional weddings entailed something quite different than still the most conservative weddings in the present.

Earlier on, a wedding was in essence little more than an agreement for the transference of property. The bride would be given away by the father to be the husband’s property from then on. Although you can see reverberations of this wedding custom in the modern world, few people in our society would concur that we have a better, more egalitarian way of viewing marriage.

That isn’t to say that there aren’t wedding traditions in our society. It is just that weddings vary greatly among people and culture. Occasionally families entertain the activity of getting drunk at the wedding, almost as if it is a duty. If you aren’t appearing to totally enjoy yourself, consuming extensive measures of spirits and food, you’re insulting your hosts and their family traditions. In other families, a traditional wedding ceremony entails a reasonably somber event. People enjoy themselves, but the primary function of the wedding is to mark a lifelong loyalty.

That is why the majority of people nowadays decide to fabricate their own wedding customs. They write their own wedding vows, arrange their own nuptialses, and come up with novel, unconventional ideas for the celebration. As a matter of fact, for such a universal custom, it is amazing how many variations you can get away with in weddings!

My very favorite wedding tradition is something that started with my granny. Although every one in our family has chosen various styles of wedding decor, given slightly different wedding vows, and provided a whole different array of refreshments at the reception, one thing has always persisted. At every wedding, we free butterflies while the bride and groom kiss. It sounds rather silly, I know, but if you saw it, you’d understand. You really have to be there to witness what a beautiful sight it is! It really brands the day as special, an event meant to be remembered evermore.

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