MARRIAGE AND WEDDING CUSTOMS/QUEEN ELIZABETH

MARRIAGE AND WEDDING CUSTOMS

ETHIOPIA

• starts with the groom's side sending a representative who requests the marriage between the parties.
• appointment is given and a verdict on the marriage is given.
• se the wife's family and friends ceremonially block the entrance to the house.
• The first bestman holds perfume and sprays everywhere inside the house.

SCOTTLAND

• Bride's family sends invitations on behalf of the couple to the wedding guests, addressed by hand
• Guests send or deliver wedding gifts to the bride's family home before the wedding day.
• The bridal party lines up in a receiving line and the wedding guests file past, introducing themselves.
• Dancing beings immediately after meal
• Bride and groom enter and leave to bagpipes

GERMAN

• Good friends kidnap the bride and go with her from bar to bar, the father of the bride or the groom have to pay the bill every time. The kidnappers go to a certain place, such as a public building, and leave a few pointers to help for searching.
• Customary to sing a derisive song before the freeing of the bride.

ITALIAN

• Day of the wedding, the groomsmen try their hardest to make the groom as uncomfortable as possible by saying things like "Maybe she forgot where the church is"
• Veil hid the bride from any spirits that would corrupt her and the bridesmaids wear similar outfits so that they were safe from evil spirits.
• At the end of all of the wedding celebrations, the couple have intercourse and live happily ever after.

UNITED STATES

• Bachelor and Bachelorette parties.
• Long wedding receptions.
• Garter and banquet thrown.
• Symbolic cutting of the wedding cake.
• Rice is sometimes thrown.

QUEEN ELIZABETH I

FACTS 1

• Born September 7, 1533 and died March 24, 1603
• Daughter of Henry VII and Anne Boleyn
• Had coronation on January 15, 1559
• Never married and no children
• Wore white makeup to cover marks left on her from smallpox
• Was third in line for the throne.

FACTS 2

• Could understand English, Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, Welsh and Cornish
• Portrayed more often in film and on television than any other British monarch.
• Before her reign was known as Lady Elizabeth
• Last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
• Reigned for 45 years, 1558-1603.

BY JAZMINE AND TIFFANY