Wedding celebration is one of the most important events for couples. This is the case they would be together as a married couple not only through the eyes of the public, but also in the eyes of the church and God. Although the wedding celebrations vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries and social classes, their ceremonies are often similar. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of vows of the couple, the filing of a gift (offering, the ring (s), the symbolic theme, flowers, money), and a public proclamation of marriage by a figure authority or leader. But generally, these wedding celebrations are governed by different sets of traditions.
Filipino wedding customs
The groom usually wears the Barong Tagalog during the wedding, along with male participants, though nowadays the rich choose to wear Western dress and a tuxedo. Sukob: weddings held in the same year by two brothers, sisters are generally frowned upon, because it is considered bad luck. Some argue that the wedding rings dropping to the ground is an omen of bad luck (this is usually said that the Ring-bearer to ensure that the child’s care in the handling of the Rings). Money, in the form of notes, sometimes covered with duct tape or the groom and the bride’s dress during the reception.
In Batangas province, popular in the Philippines in terms of weddings, are also known for its traditions in the wedding celebrations. Unlike the tradition of attributing the money on the groom and the bride’s dress during the reception, calling Batangeos usually have these in the names of the groom and bride’s parents, family and friends to help you on your money in a basket or a pitcher, while the commentator announces how much they have given. This tradition is called “Saboga.
U.S. influence wedding ceremonies
The culture of Filipino weddings today have been largely inspired by U.S. Customs as sending wedding invites guests. Other popular wedding traditions inspired by United States Customs include:
* A color scheme is often selected to match everything from bridesmaids dresses, flowers, invitations and decorations.
* The bride usually wears a white dress, white, silver, or other very light, especially in his first marriage.
* The wedding ceremony takes place in a church, courthouse, or elsewhere, as a place outdoors. The ceremony itself is usually brief, and is primarily dictated by the couple’s religious practices
* Rice is sometimes thrown at the newlyweds to leave the ceremony as a symbol of fertility. Some individuals, churches or communities choose birdseed due to a false myth, but believed that birds eating rice is going to explode. * In a symbolic cutting of the wedding cake, the bride and groom jointly hold a knife to cut the cake and the first pieces of wedding cake, feeding each other.
* If offered the dancing, the bride and groom first dance together briefly. Often, an additional protocol is followed, in which dance along with a parent, and then, possibly with other members of the wedding party.
* A mid-twentieth century it became common for the bride to throw her bouquet over her shoulder to the unmarried women to the assembly during the reception.
