10 amazing wedding traditions from around the world

Last week, Danish astrologers named the best day for a wedding in 2013 - September 7th. In the meantime, the world is preparing for a new wedding fever, we invite you to get acquainted with the most unusual wedding customs from different countries.

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1. In Samoa, the bride's dress is made from mulberry bark.

2. Nigeria has its own ideals of beauty. If the bride before the wedding (or for the first time after it) does not gain magnificent forms, the groom has every right to send her back to her parents - to eat off.

3. But in Kenya, there is a custom according to which in the first month after the wedding, the groom must wear women's clothes in order to fully experience how hard it is to be a woman.

4. In Namibia, instead of a veil, the bride puts on a special headdress called "Ekori" and is made of goat skin, which is also rubbed with resin, fat and red ocher.

5. In the Ethiopian tribe of Surma, there is a custom according to which, some time before the wedding, the girl's lower teeth are removed, her lip is pierced and a clay disk is inserted into it. From time to time, the disc is replaced with a similar, but larger diameter. And what about the wedding? And besides, the larger the diameter of the disc, the greater the dowry of the bride, because it is the disc that symbolizes the level of wealth of the bride's family.

6. On the island of Java, as in most countries, before registering a marriage, a couple must pay a fee to the budget. But not with money, but with rat tails. The newlyweds must hand over 25 tails to the local administration as a wedding fee.

7. The concept of the wedding night in Albania is very conditional. There is a tradition according to which for three days and three nights the newly-made wife must resist her husband's encroachments on the fulfillment of family duty. This is done in order to confuse evil spirits.

8. But the Nenets do not particularly bother with wedding dishes, and serve guests raw venison.

9. Everything is simple on the island of Trombrian, which is next to New Guinea. If you want to get married, eat with your future spouse from the same plate in front of other members of the tribe. After this ceremony, the couple is considered married.

10. And, finally, if you get to the wedding feast on about. Bali, then pretty surprised. At the wedding table you will see only women. What about men? They are resting. After all, it was they who prepared all those dishes that their women eat with such joy.