Polish Wedding Traditions

My FH is half polish (on his mom's side) but we're not planning on incorporating anything in the wedding. His mom mentioned a few things, but most of them had to do with money and we weren't comfortable with it.

Same here, Alyssa. I'm Polish, and the only wedding tradition (besides drinking, ha) that has been brought up to me is a dollar dance. Which, no.

Yeah the FH is not comfortable with doing the money dance or anything like that. I had to convince him a card box was ok to have.

I must confess, I somehow misread this as "Polish wedding tattoos" and was very confused for a minute.

I'm just curious, what made you want to look to Polish traditions?

I am Polish.. We moved to the states when I was 7... I have asked family and they are clueless and don't know any.

Hey, I am having a 100% Polish wedding so if you have any questions - I can be your gal.

I haven't seen someone do the money dance...well, ever. I think that tradition is long gone. Some of our traditions include: blessing at my parents home before the ceremony with FH bringing flowers, traditional polish highlander group playing at my parents home/church/when people walk into the reception, our parents meeting us in front of the hall with the bread/vodka/salt, FH carrying me into the hall, leaving flowers for Mary in church while we pray to her, my dad making cytrynowka for the wedding, oczepiny at midnight, errr what else....krokiety & barszcz at midnight. Pretty sure there's a million more but because it's all I know then I don't know that it's not a tradition.

Mmmmmmmm krokiety & barszcz. DONE and DONE!!

LOL we are also having oscypki, smoked sausages, etc etc as appetizers before dinner.

Paulina- I didn't know some of these, thanks for sharing!

The men gather in a circle, holding hands, around the bride (kidnapping her). Groom has to break into the circle and "rescue" her. But, this can become a free-for-all.