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Wedding Traditions & Customs

Wedding Traditions & Customs

Understand wedding traditions and shed light on all that’s old, new, borrowed and blue. Learn the appropriate way to navigate the first dance, cut the cake and toss the bouquet. Need culture-specific advice? Research everything from Italian wedding traditions to the customs of a Mexican ceremony. Ever wonder why it’s bad luck for the bride and groom to see each other before the big event? eHow offers the scoop on this and many other superstitions. You’ll even find suggestions for honoring parents and grandparents.

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  • Best Mother & Son Wedding Dance Songs

    Weddings are emotional, especially for the mother of the groom, who is watching her little boy officially become a grown-up. One way you can show her you will always be her son is by the wedding...

  • How to Choose a Song for a First Dance

    First dance songs for a wedding should be meaningful to both the bride and groom, and it might be helpful to take dance classes together before the big day. Choose the best possible first dance...

  • How to Write a Wedding Card

    Doing a wedding card is a lot of fun! Some people have a hard time viewing them as fun because they don't know what to put in the card. They want it to be perfect. Well, guess what? That can happen!

  • How to Dance With Your Father At Your Wedding

    The father/daughter dance: a keystone of almost every wedding reception. The only thing that bothered me about this ritual was the intimacy associated with a slow dance. Did I really want to find...

  • About Wedding Music

    Music plays a vital part in weddings and wedding receptions from start to finish. The song choices are important to the overall feel of the wedding. Wedding music can be traditional, sentimental,...

  • How to Choose a Wedding Song

    Wedding planning can be stressful for many couples. From the invitations to the wedding cake, everything needs to be planned in advance. One factor that some couples may give little thought to is...

  • How to Choose A Wedding Dance Song

    Learn how to choose a wedding song for your wedding dance in this free video clip.

  • How to Honor Parents With Wedding Dances

    Wedding dances are one of the most sentimental and beautiful part of the wedding reception. When the bride dances with her father and when the groom dances with his mother, these should be very...

  • How to Find Garter Toss Music

    The garter toss is a fun wedding tradition that involves all of the single men on the floor. The groom removes the garter from his bride's leg and then tosses it to the awaiting single men....

  • How to Find a Bouquet Toss Song

    Most of us know about all the usual wedding traditions like the father-daughter dance, the mother-son dance, or the newly married couple's first dance together at the reception. The bouquet toss...

  • How to Find a Song for the Garter Toss

    It is said that the garter toss actually began as a custom where the bride would toss her garter to the single men in attendance at the wedding. If the male guests had too much to drink, they...

  • How to Sing a Garter Toss Song

    The garter toss is a really fun long-standing tradition of weddings. At a certain point in the reception, the groom removes the garter off his bride's leg and then tosses it to the remaining...

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