Wedding of the day
In Bosnia, the wedding ritual is to ornate the cars with flowers, then after the ceremony the bride, the groom and the guests sit in the cars and drive to the place where the celebration is to start.
To let everyone know that they have just got married all the cars play the horns. Very loudly.
We came across one such wedding parade today. The celebration goes long into the night, and there is lots of drinking and eating good Bosnian food on the menu.
Children from the families help with seating the guests and so earn some money for their efforts. At the end of the day, everybody is happy: the guests are drunk and well fed, kids are a little richer and the newly weds happy to start a life together.
posted by Jazzy @ Friday, August 11, 2006
5 Comments:
Thanks for sharing! I love hearing wedding traditions from other countries...most are very similar but distict in their own ways =)
thats interesting the horns must create quite a stir in the neighborhoods they pass - I wonder where they will go for honeymoon =)
Anne thanx for stopping by.
Kala - Hawai'i wouldn't be a bad choice.
I was driving in Kosovo on Sunday the 6th, I came across 5 or 6 such wedding parades. It was a nice sight.
In Greece it's customary too to horn, but only the car that brings the bride to the church.
hi Ovelikios!
It's great that you're traveling around Balkans and experiencing different customs..
i'm catching up with previous posts...
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