Monday, May 18, 2009

Marriage and Wedding in Kazakhstan and USA


All nationalities have their own customs in Marriage and Wedding. I want to tell contrast about Marriage in my country and the USA.
In my country in wedding day fiancé have to bring some candy, chocolate or some money with him. Before you can see his fiancée, he has to answer a lot of questions about his future wife like: what is your size of shoes? What kind of flowers she likes? And more. If he answers wrong, his fiancée’s friends will demand treats. I didn’t hear about same tradition in the USA.
One more is the first dance newly-weds. This is the same tradition, but we don’t have mandatory dance of father with his daughter- fiancée.
Another happens during wedding dinner. Maids of honor of the fiancée hide her and then demand treats again. This can be money or a funny dance of the fiancé with his best men. If best men pay money, all of them friends give newly-weds. This is very funny custom!
We have a lot of customs and traditions on our Wedding such as: bite Karavai – special bread, break champagne glasses for good luck, steal fiancée’s shoe, take off veil and celebrate continue on second day calling “sauna”. All of these contrast with American way to celebrate wedding. Our Weddings are the funniest in the World!

Natalya

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Natalya,

Do you have a videotape of your wedding? We'd love to see that.