VIDEO: These Are the Weirdest Wedding Traditions in the World

Weddings are really important for people all over the world. No matter how young or old you are, what country you are from and what religion you are you have certainly had a wedding on your mind.

Especially if you are a woman you want to make sure that everything goes perfectly and that you get the best day ever in which you are the center of attention and everyone thinks you are the most beautiful bride ever.

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Depending on where you are from you will see that different cultures have different ways of celebrating weddings and making sure that the newly wed couple gets the best start possible in their life together.

According to wonderlist.com, wedding rituals and traditions vary greatly between cultures, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vows by the couple, presentation of a gift (ring, flowers etc.), and a public proclamation of marriage by an authority figure.

Many cultures have adopted the traditional Western custom of the white wedding (associated with the wedding of Queen Victoria),in which a bride wears a white wedding dress and veil.

Marriage is a universal occasion, in any culture it come with a laundry list of traditions and rituals, including the old rhyme, “something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue.”

It is one of the few similarities countries across the globe have in common. In many cultures, preparing for a wedding involves booking a venue, getting the wedding dress and inviting the guests. But with the following unusual and amazing wedding rituals it is clear just how diverse weddings can be.

The Tujia people of China prepare for a wedding 30 days before the wedding day by crying. The bride spends an hour a day crying. 10 days later, she is joined by her mother, and then ten days after that, her grandmother, and this continues until all the females in the family are crying daily for an hour.

Thankfully it is not an act of sadness but this is actually meant as an expression of joy and deep love.

In some parts of India it is believed that ghosts can inhabit certain people of the living world. Most notably, girls who are born with a baby tooth already erupted through the gum and girls who are very ugly or have some facial dissimulation are believed to be possessed by ghosts.

The only way to break this weird curse is for the girl to marry an animal, typically a goat or dog. They manage a lavish wedding ceremony complete with booze and dancing. This is nothing but a mock ceremony. It’s just to ward off the evil spirits, she is free to marry a man later on.

Blackening of the bride is a very old Scottish tradition. It’s part of a hazing ritual that actually happens before the wedding. The bride is taken by surprise, by hands down the crummiest friends you could have, and covered from head to toe with all kinds of things.

It can be anything: spoiled milk from the back of your fridge right down to tar and feathers. The ritual of covering brides and grooms in treacle, soot and flour used to be carried out to ward off evil spirits.