Wacky Wedding Traditions

     

     Weddings bring out the depths of tradition, whether old or brand new. Half the fun of wedding planning is looking at other people's wonderful, creative or ridiculous ideas. Celebrating marriage can be done in a multitude of ways from underwater off the coast of the British Virgin Islands to getting hitched at the same chapel your great-great-great grandmother did. People take great pride in doing things like they have always done them and weddings are no exception. However, broaching the subject of wedding traditions brought up some unusual ones and I pondered the line between custom and craziness.

1. The Wheelbarrow Exit -A friend of mine shared with me that her grandparents made an untraditional walk out on their wedding, when her grandfather simply hoisted her grandmother into a wheelbarrow and steered her towards their getaway car. The tradition lives on and there will certainly be a wheelbarrow handy when my friend gets hitched.

2. The Change Up- At a recent wedding I went to, a couple left their reception to confetti of…pennies and nickels. Apparently, the thought was that the change would bring good fortune to the newlywed couple. The most hilarious part of the matter was the five year old ring bearer running around stuffing his little pockets with as much “free money” as he could find.

3. The Best Dog Gone Idea- I heard of a couple who shared that they were so attached to their two year old Chihuahua that they had the pup bring their wedding ring down the aisle with a basket as big as its head attached to its collar. The pup was well trained enough to make it down the aisle but when it reached his owner the poor pup peed on his foot, probably out of sheer nerves!

When it comes to my family and me, we have a multitude of traditions but my favorite new tradition will be when my dad gets to officiate my wedding. He got his wedding license years ago to do my cousin’s wedding and ever since then I knew I wanted him to pronounce me under my new married name. Whether weird or sentimental, wedding traditions sure make each event something old, something new something borrowed and maybe even something blue!