On Bala Island, people will sprinkle water on the wedding bed to bless the couple. In Maldives, the bride and groom should sleep in the stable on their wedding night. However, on the island of Louis, newcomers have to live with their parents for a week before they can return to their own homes.
Celtic custom, which originated from pagan ceremony, has been a part of wedding ceremony for many years.
The bride and groom will tear off their tartan shawls and tie them together, symbolizing the union of two families.
According to Gaelic tradition, it is unlucky to get married in May or when the moon is waning.
In Aberdeen, blackening is also a very popular traditional custom. The engaged groom and bride-to-be may be caught by a group of "friends" one night, and then coated with honey, feathers, coal ash and other things, forcing them to parade in the village or bar to show off. It often takes several days for blackened people to be cleaned.
Sewing hair on the hem of a wedding dress for good luck, and sewing blood on the inside of the skirt are some interesting but unpopular customs. Before the wedding, the bride can't wear gorgeous or complicated skirts. In order to adapt to this custom, part of the hem of the wedding dress will not be sewn until the last minute.
When the bride leaves home for the last time as single girls, she should first step out of the house with her right foot, which is more auspicious. On the eve of the wedding, the groom will attend a male party with friends (this party is only open to men). Such parties are often full of jokes and many local customs. In Fife, the custom of washing feet has been passed down to this day, but only the groom who knows humor can endure the whole process. The process involves the groom sitting in a wooden basin filled with water, and then his friend takes off his socks and puts a mixture of oil and coal ash on his leg. This is to pray for the groom's good luck in his future marriage.
The bride's farewell bachelor party (hen night) is also held on the eve of the wedding. The bride is often dressed up by her friends with balloons and ribbons, coated with flour and coal ash, and paraded in the street for a week. Parades are often accompanied by tinkling iron pots, bells and whistles, in order to drive away evil spirits. In many places in Scotland, the bride's friends will hold a jar so that people can throw coins into the jar to show their good wishes to the bride. This is also a way to prepare funds for new wedding banquets-today, some brides can even get more than $65,438+000 in this way. At weddings, Scottish brides often wear white or cream wedding dresses. The relatives and friends of the father of the bride and groom will wear a very grand traditional highland costume, sewn with Scottish tartan of their respective families. The bride may also wear a horseshoe on her arm, hoping to bring good luck; It can also be that the bride arrives at the wedding scene and the flower girl presents horseshoes.
For the bride, there is a very common custom that there must be several things in her dress: "old, new, borrowed and blue". Of course, the so-called "new" naturally means the bride's wedding dress. And this dress will become an "old" or "borrowed" thing for the next generation of weddings. The bride will also wear blue garters (symbolizing "love"). In addition, in some parts of Scotland, it is also a traditional custom to put a silver coin in the bride's shoes, which is said to bring good luck. A typical white wedding has about three bridesmaids, a little girl with flowers and a little boy in a kilt. These two children are about three years old. The boy's task is to hand the horseshoe to the bride when she walks out of the church with the groom in her arms. Generally speaking, a piper will be present to guide the couple from the church to the waiting car. When the car is moving, the groom will throw a lot of silver coins outside the car, and the children will pick up these silver coins symbolizing good luck.
The usual Scottish wedding starts at 4 o'clock, followed by dinner and speech at 5 o'clock, and dancing starts at 7: 30, which will last until the early hours of the morning.