If you’ve ever been to a Jewish wedding – you probably got to watch the groom smash a glass with his foot...
Smashing and throwing stuff seem to go hand in hand with weddings. Here are a few more violent wedding traditions:
• We have the French to thank for Shivaree - a wedding tradition dating back hundreds of years. Fortunately it has lost its popularity. It involves family members, other wedding guests, pots and pans. They congregate outside the newlyweds’ home on their wedding night to make as much obnoxious noise as possible.
• If you attend a wedding in the Czech Republic – wear a helmet. First, a plate is thrown at the feet of the bride and groom. As they leave, friends and family throw peas, then head for the couple’s home to throw nuts, grains, coins and figs at it.
• Germans get to smash stuff too. Their weddings often feature a Polterabend – an extravagant feast that ends with the entire wedding party smashing every dish, crock and pot in sight.
• If you’re engaged, you might want to avoid Scotland – where blackening the bride and groom-to-be is considered great fun. Your friends will concoct the most disgusting combination of stuff they can find – probably dairy, sausages, eggs, fish and feathers – and dump that all over you. Then you’ll be paraded through town for all too see.
The groom may prefer that to a South Korean wedding, where he’ll have to endure a beating to his bound feet with canes and a dead fish before retiring with his bride.
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