21 Weird Wedding Traditions - mental_floss List Show Ep. 415
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
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"I tend to take things to dark places." -John Green. No truer words have e'er been spoken.
Amen, mate.
No. 7: As a Norwegian I can confirm that this is totally the case. I gave the love of my the most kick-ass ironing board the northern hemisphere has ever seen. Needless to say she is now my wife.
Hmm if you don't mind me asking, what sort of wife do you think a "made in China" ironing board can fetch me? Can she cook? Does she have a nice pair of bosoms? Does she have the face only a mother can love? you know, the average things men look for from a women. 🤔
+Ze Rubenator , I have never heard of this, nor can I find any reference to it on line. Is it a very local tradition?
MiraTell2
It is bollocks.
It's not ironing bord but a mangletre or manglebrett that together with a cylinder was used to roll and flatten the cloth.
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mangletre,_Norsk_Folkemuseum,_NF.1911-0338.jpg
3:33 it's ok John, you can host my funeral (i'm sure you'll put the fun in my funeral)
There is a Hamilton reference in the text box of number 21 and that makes me so happy.
I'm SO glad I wasn't the only one to spot it!!
I'd love John Green to officiate my marriage.
You say they used quilts to decide, but really it's the cat that decides.
Meaning that cats have been deciding the course of human history all along.
+DroidFreak36 At least in Appalachia for the last couple of centuries. Not a high percentage of really famous people on the world stage, so the cats would have to depend on the butterfly effect of chaos theory to have a really large effect. Getting a coal miner to marry Dolly Parton's mother probably had some effect.
At Jewish weddings, before the ceremony, the groom is actually the one who puts the veil on the bride so that he can check that she is the correct woman and her father isn't trying to trick him into marrying the wrong person.
+ze'ev Katz yes, well Jews have a very good reason for that one, if you've read Genesis
I am well aware of the reason, but thanks for trying to help.
This video was posted on the day of the week before getting married.
Wed-Next-Day
+Kishore Shenoy
Wōdnesdæg.
+Kishore Shenoy OMG YOU ARE SO CRAZY WOW THIS VIDEO WAS JUST FOR YOU!! fuck man..
+CapN b0b You didn't get the joke, did you?
0:13 Do desperate old Appalachian spinsters smear themselves with catnip and tuna just before the last stitch is sewn into the quilt?
What happened to Geiko? are they not friends anymore?
my thoughts exactly😝
I DONT LIKE CHANGE!
but you could save up to 15% by changing your insurance to Gieco!
Hamilton reference at the end made me so happy!
"God I hope you're satisfied!" - Is that a Hamilton reference I spot?
That was my thought when I saw it too 😂 they can't sneak it past hs
*us
this video has incredible timing since I am getting married on Saturday
+mdsupernova20 Congratulations
Congrats!!!! Best of luck to you and your spouse.
+mdsupernova20
Protip: Make sure to ask your Maître D' (or whoever running the ground floor at the reception) to put aside some food for you to take home. Chances are you will not get much time to eat anything.
+mdsupernova20 congratulations!
+Game & Growl I second this motion. I got married last year and hired people to pass out hors d'oeuvres, and ended up sending my best man to get me a few because I couldn't move. I ate dinner while most of the guests were dancing.
Congratulations, by the way!
yah... in Indian weddings shoe stealing is kind of like a competition between the bride's siblings, cousins and friends vs groom's siblings, cousins and friends. The bride's side tries to steal the groom's shoes when he takes them off for the mundup ceremony while the groom's side tries to protect the shoes from being stolen. When the bride's side gets their hands on the shoes, groom has to pay money to the bride's side to get the shoes back. Usually, If the groom's side manages to stop the stealing, they would just give the shoes to the bride's side eventually, but not before the other side has admitted defeat. It's a fun tradition, and you get a reason to get to know all the other person's siblings/cousins/friends.
The bride being kidnapped and taken to a pub happens in the Czech Republic as well. Except it happens during the reception. You can often see an unhappy bride with a couple of drunks, waiting for her husband to find her, in Prague.
Some weird ones from my culture. I'm ethnic Turkmen, from Turkmenistan, Central Asia.
- Brides belt (rope) get tied in knots like 40 times, just to make life miserable to the groom.
- Brides (or even grooms, not sure) friends line up before the door of the bride and the groom has to make his way to her door through a barrage punches and kicks.
- Bride sits on a carpet and 4 men lift her from 4 corners and carry her to her new home. In a different version:
- Bride gets rolled up in a carpet (I shit you not!) and gets carried away the the new home.
This is just some that I can remember from My tribe. There are dozens of Turkic tribes and each have stranger and stranger rituals like these.
Where im from, Sudan, the husband and wife spit milk at each other. I don't know why, but it sure does make for a lot of laughter.
Stealing the groom's shoes is the MOST FUN PART OF THE WEDDING!! :D
...unless that kidnapping refers to a child sleeping for a short period of time. May your kids nap often.
+17inchcorkscrew Never thought about the etymology of that word. Maybe it was originally kid-NAB-bing? And maybe "nap" originally meant to "nab" or steal a short rest?
I 100% approve of the pub crawl kidnapping. That sounds like the best kidnapping ever.
6:25 that Hamilton reference tho
I found it very useful in the years after my wedding to be able to say to people "Oh, you know my crazy relative, you met them at my wedding..."
The tradition of saving the top tier of the wedding cake for the christening actually pre-dates freezers. English wedding cake is usually a rich fruit cake - often laced with alcohol - which will remain perfectly edible for a year without refrigeration. My christening in 1951 was accompanied with cake from my parents' wedding 10 months prior (Yay! I'm legitimate!)
Nice little Hamilton reference at the end there!
Fun fact - the "best" in Best Man refers to the grooms friend which is the best fighter. He was also supposed to guard the door while the couple consummated the wedding, in case she had any family/ex-suitors that were upset by the wedding.
stealing the bride and taking her on a pub crawl is still a common tradition in wisconsin. it's actually quite fun!
Joota Chupai (stealing the grooms shoes) was my favorite part of my wedding reception. It was fun and my sister got money AND a sonic screwdriver.
3:42 - 4:08 Why do I have the feeling that John will be sleeping on the couch tonight?
4:09-4:10 saves his ass
This video was stupid hilarious hahaha I scared my cat awake and THEN away by just laughing at some of these ridiculous traditions
The divorce rate is actually even lower than 48% percent. The faulty 50% stat comes from comparing the number of divorces every year to the number of marriages, which isn't the same thing as calculating the actual odds of a marriage ending in divorce.
When my little sister was in primary school, she gave my mum a wooden duck (looked kinda like a real one) as a mother's day present. I don't know why but we all mocked it and it soon became the butt of bad gift jokes. It only had one eye (though I don't recall if that was before or after it was given as a present). Mum kept it on display for years though... I wonder if it's still in the cabinet.
as soon as John said Renaissance I couldn't stop thinking/laughing about it being pronounced Ren-ay-ssance, thanks dear hank and john
Mad props for the Hamilton reference there in the last one
That Hamilton reference on the last one!
i like to think that if john were to move one of the knick knacks on the shelves in the background, it would open a trap door to his mancave
I really enjoyed the little Hamilton reference.
48% of marriages may end in divorce, but 100% of divorces begin with a marriage.
Thanks John.
Nice Hamilton easter egg ;)
Can we talk about the weird wedding tradition where people pay an exhorbitant amount of money just to be married? Fam, ain't nobody got time fo' dat.
Getting married in 51 days so this was interesting to watch!
I'm not engaged or even dating anyone, but I think John green as my wedding mc would be so rad!!!! 😆😄😂
Hey John, it's not just Bavaria. In at least the whole southern half oft Germany, kidnapping the bride is pretty common, yet not universal.
john green can officiate my wedding for sure.
I agree with the not getting to eat the cake part. That really sucked.
+Samantha Stroiazzo Our cake was so delicious that we didn't get a chance to eat any of it during our wedding. Luckily we'd stored away the top tier so we could eat it later!
I'm sorry, number 21, is that a Hamilton reference I spy?
Probably
Beat me to it! I freaked!
hello
+AmeliaBell28 Swank(ified) I spot a Wicked reference
I live in south Baravia and I'm so glad I never went to a wedding where the bride was kidnapped. BUT I went to one in Austria where that happened. So jokes on you neighbours.
I am not Korean, but my family lives there for 5 years. My mom gave me a set of the traditional wooden ducks for my wedding =)
+Madison Current My Korean friend gave me ceramic ducks :) She told me to put them in my bedroom for fertility...so they're in my living room because I don't want any more babies!
I keep mine on a self in my living room with all of my other wedding stuff, and when I am mad at my husband, I turn my duck to face away from his. interesting enough, I also have a wooden fertility statue from Haiti in my living room as well. lol.
She said her husband put her ducks in lewd positions when he's in the mood
That is my husbands response to my anger. lol
lewd positions. hahahaha! that's hilarious. I once attended a Korean wedding and each table at the reception had a pair of ducks on it. my table drew straws to figure out who got them at the end, and I won. and one point in college I had roommates who sometimes put the ducks in different positions when I wasn't looking, and I always thought that was funny. 😂
What if you didn't have a cat? were there rental cat services?
I remember the exploding rice birds thing from the misconceptions episode.
Why do you say you return to the salon when you never leave it?
'the salon' is just him when he is in front of the fire place
+Eveline Gillespie But he doesn't move. Just the camera angle changes...
+Daracaex it's called relativity sir
I see that Hamilton reference in #21
ANYONE ELSE GET THE HAMILTON REFERENCE IN THE LITTLE BANNER AT 6:30
I SINCERELY HOPE THAT THE LAST CAPTION WAS A HAMILTON REFERENCE
In the mid-west of the US, it's a common tradition to tap one's drinking glass until the whole room picks up the tinkling and that's a question for the new couple to kiss.
Hit the iron out joke and hit the like button great episode.
Would you be the master of ceremonies at my wedding John?
5:30
The office!!!
I have known a couple of people who have gotten married who have had their hotel room/bedroom pranked on their wedding night - short-sheeting the bed, stealing all the toilet paper, little things like that - do they do this in other places or just here on the Canadian prairie?
Our piece of first anniversary wedding cake wasn't freezer burned, it was delicious. Tupperware, yo.
In Rwanda there is a tradition where there are many girls that are presented to the groom. The reason is that if the groom chooses a girl that wasn't the one who he came to ask for marriage, he would go back home without a wife. (Most marriages were arranged marriages so the groom had never seen the bride before the day they were actually married)
Nice Hamilton reference!!
Was "God, I hope you're satisfied" in the last question a Hamilton reference?
The groomsmen or other male relative pranksters "kidnapping" the bride and taking her out drinking or, in the case of my friend's sister, to the mall for ice cream and arcade games, is something that's apparently still a thing in the Midwest USA. The aforementioned friend's sister was super pissed because she missed most of her reception and didn't get to see all the people who'd travelled in from out of state for the wedding.
Still a tradition in my Midwestern family! The big difference is the cousins hold the bride ransom to the rest of the family, then gift the money raised to the new couple. We try to only do it if the couple likes the tradition though.
I'm Bermudian and I've never witnessed this cedar saplings phenomenon. It might be a thing, but I doubt it?
one of my now husband's co-workers had married a gal from Germany and in her village they had the kidnapping the bride custom only they didn't do a pub crawl. A pub crawl might have made it more interesting. We attended a wedding where the co-worker and his wife decided to kidnap the bride. At first the groom didn't even notice that his bride was missing...for a good 30 min (at least, could have been longer). After he finally realized his bride was gone, he went to go look for her... this left the rest of us at the reception with no bride or groom. We were all pretty bored as the reception was on hold until they returned. I did NOT invite the co-worker to my wedding.
+1 this if you would want John Green to officiate your wedding.
48% isn't true either. There a lot less marriage today then was 10, 20, 30, even 40 years ago. There 2.4 million marries but 1.2 divorces that's where they getting that 50% from. The problem is they don't take account of all the marries for years where marriage rate was many times higher. If you take account of marriages and divorces it's around 22.6%. Also a lot of people who get divorce most often have multiple divorces.
+Donald Bettilyon Looking forward to your credible sources.
you can't leave this empty There's a thing call google it will bring up thousand of website that will explain everything for you.
Donald Bettilyon Thanks for the tip. I Googled "credible sources" and found this under Non Credible Sources,"Websites: There is not much information available. If the purpose is not informative but may have other motives, like to persuade, the site may not be credible. The website is not regularly updated or the author is unreliable." Whoops!
you can't leave this empty www.divorcesource.com/ds/main/u-s-divorce-rates-and-statistics-1037.shtml understand that the 22.6% isn't the current divorce rate it's just the highest it's ever been.
But John, you forgot that you can also say ReNAIssance! :D
They did number 17 on the office lol
HE'S GOT A PUPPYCAT
I wish I knew these 10 years ago, I would have carved an ironing board and my best man would have had a sword
But the gift shows how much he gloves her!
So that's why my grandparents have wooden ducks... huh.
The veil thing also happens in Jewish weddings, with the Leah-Rachel confusion. That would be quite awkward, accidentally marrying your fiancee's sister.
Today's my 3 year wedding anniversary. yay! Also, I'm pretty sure we did none of these things.
I think you got probably the least weird part of Korean wedding tradition.
In one tradition, the groom's friends wear dried squids as masks and bear gifts to the prospective in-laws.
In another, the groom's friends whip the bottom of his feet so he can't run away.
These days, Korean weddings have two parts. The western style wedding for all the guests. After a brief ceremony, all the guests go to eat while the bride and groom have a second ceremony where they change into traditional clothing and bow to their respective in-laws. Then the parents throw chestnuts and dates onto a blanket held by the bride and groom. These are supposed to represent how many boys and girls the newly weds will have. After all that they greet all their guests table by table. They don't get to eat until all the guests are greeted or gone!
What happened to Geico?? OH NO!! The videos will never be the same!!!
I was hoping that they would talk about a mexican tradition at the wedding reception, the male guests grab the groom and take him away to a secluded place(most times the restroom) and take his clothes off and only leaving him in his underwear in the secluded place. then they take the groom's clothes to the bride at the party room, present them to her with music and arrange them next to her feet. then the bride takes the clothes back to the Groom and dresses him back to normal. I have no idea why we do this but it a pretty funny tradition.
+AngelicOblivion90 WHERE in mexico you do this? in Guerrero, and DF, we do not do that. o_O
maop my family is from Michoacan. nobody actually sees the groom without clothes. it only alluded to, since they rarely ever come out of the bathroom and it's done behind a bathroom stall. it just a very popular wedding prank.
oh i see, yeah haven't seen that in a wedding, now i kinda want to =)
cheers to Michoacán!
"i kinda take things to dark places"-wrote a teenie bop love story about CANCER (i'm just going on what i've heard,i kinda still wanna read it or watch it or whatever)
brb moving to Bavaria
+Maddi Page just to warn you, that only works in towns small enough that everybody knows everbody. Otherwise the bartenders would not let a crowd of people leave without paying ;)
If I got married to a tree I would never let them cut it down D: what kind of behavior is that towards your new husband?
Well, its faith wasn't decided by you but by your astrology sing, so the tree had to see it coming...
I had to walk my mom down the aisle. One of the weird part of being the oldest son.
the jumpcuts felt especially jarring this episode, is there multiple chairs or do you have to reposition each time ?
I was pregnant on my 1st wedding anniversary so my son technically ate it with us.
what swank gloves! damn!!!
Was that a Hamilton reference on that last fact?
I think I spot some Hamilton in number 21
My dad conducted weddings in Japan and since the couples didn't understand any English, he just said random crap, and just said you may now kiss the bride at the end
"Get married, good for our business"
if I get married I want jon to officiate
My mom told me they told her put a penny in a shoe (woman's) for good luck. In Jewish weddings to this day, the bride is unveiled by the groom before the ceremony to make sure it's the right one. This is from the Bible where someone tricked someone into marrying the 1st born though he worked 7 years to marry the second born.
My childhood friend is getting married and my parents are going but I wasn't invited because his bride was the decision maker on who was to be invited. My parents weren't even invited to begin with, not even one of the friends who helped pay for the wedding. His dad had to do damage control and invite people who actually should be there. It hurts because I'll be so close yet so far away, I haven't seen my friends in years. I guess they don't care...
Could use some citations for some of these.
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE ON 21.
don't apologize, John! i'll take the joke. :))
So the best man was LITERALLY mr steal yo girl?
Was the 'God, I hope xou'ee satisfied' line a Hamilton reference? Or maybe I'm imagining things, seeing something that isn't there.....yes...just my imagination.....they're every where...everywhere
To be fair, in the US we have to save up for 3 months to buy an intrinsically worthless rock so we can wait like a year to spend thousands of dollars on a ceremony that will likely end in divorce. So that's pretty weird.
John Green has the sloppiest collars. Great guy though
MuRpH902 He gave his wife a crappy ironing board