How are you involving your culture on your big day?

We are doing the Polish bread & salt blessing, my maiden name is Polish and I'm Polish on my father's side. We will do an "affirmation of community" during our ceremony which I learned from being Episcopalian. Other than that, nothing really. I'll have coffee during desserts since my father is Italian and always drinks coffee with desert haha. It's cool you are doing so much!

We're both proud of being from Michigan and all our state has to offer, so since our wedding is in fall and that's BIG TIME apple orchard season here, we're probably going to have apple cider and cinnamon doughnuts from a local cider mill, and tossing around the idea of mini apple pies and wedding favors. The fall colors here are amazing and we're next to a park so lots of fall photo ops

Our food is all from my culture. We usually have a thing called tea ceremony but I didn't want that and I also didn't want to change into the traditional attire ahah so my wedding is very largely not cultural besides the food but I think it's cool when people incorporate that

My fiance is Armenian so we are doing the whole Armenian wedding, think my big fat greek wedding and you are close. It's a whole day affair where the party starts at the groom's house as he gets ready (his groomsmen, his parents, close family and friends), there is food and drinks and dancing in the street as they leave for the brides house. Then they arrive at the brides house with gifts (her veil, her shoes, her bouquet). There is more dancing in the street, when everyone comes in there is more food and drinks. There is the first look with the bride and groom, toasts usually from the fathers and then everyone leaves to the ceremony. It's a huge thing, we are looking at about 30-40 people at my house that morning.

One of the things I am including in the wedding to also honor the Armenian culture is having little metal pomegranate boxes as the favor. It's a symbol of luck and prosperity for marriage.

I think the main one would be a full catholic ceremony. I don’t know how my FH side is gonna handle that cuz it runs a bit long.

I ’m Albanian so their will be traditional Albanian music and dance added. And of course we will serve lamb as part of the appetizers before the main dish 😂.

We are Jewish so my husband wore a yarmulke and a talit at our ceremony, we also did traditional Jewish processional order, and had 7 blessings read at the ceremony.

We also did the Hava Nagilah chair lift at our reception which was probably one of the most fun moments of our lives!

Loving these responses... I thought this would just be a fun way to share what matters to all of us, but it's also wonderful to learn about different wedding traditions! Keep them coming!

Being Black American, I will be the tradition of jumping the broom.

My FH is Jamaican, so we will have a Jamaican jerk dish option, steel drums for cocktail hour, and we're still deciding on entertainment.

FH is Catholic and I’m Baptist we’re intermixing our backgrounds together for our ceremony. Such as I’m wearing strapless dress, but I’m wearing a cover during the ceremony part.

We are doing a full Greek Orthodox ceremony! I was baptized when I was five and I am ethnically not Greek at all but its a very big part of who I am. My dad is a priest in the Orthodox faith so he will actually be our officiant. 95% of our guests aren't orthodox however, so it might be a little weird to them but I'm so excited! We are also providing Ouzo at the reception and our wedding favors are little jars of olive oil from Greece (bought from a guy who goes to my church lol)

Well not exactly. We are going with a movie we both enjoy and that's Grease. I say not exactly because the ceremony will be at a fort with buildings that are national landmarks.

Jewish - Rabbi, Ketubah, modified ceremony (processional, tallit, seven blessings, smashing glass under the chuppah), yichud, and the Hora.

We’re incorporating a lot of things to show our Christian faith! We’re having 1 Corinthians 13 aisle signs, other signs with scripture to decorate the ceremony & reception spaces, Christian songs during the ceremony, prayers, scripture reading, and the Lord’s Supper as our unity candle alternative!

We will have cultural food instead of the basic steak/chicken/fish! We are also “switching cultures” and each wearing a piece of clothing at the reception of each other’s cultures. Also incorporating a cultural dance during the reception! Ceremony is strictly American.

My family is Scottish so we are having a bagpiper at our ceremony. We will also be incorporating plaid.