Wedding Customs Around the World

Chinese Wedding Traditions - http://www.chcp.org/Vwedding.html This website provides a summary of traditional Chinese wedding customs, the Chinese wedding tea ceremony, and post-wedding rituals.

Ethnic Wedding Customs - http://members.aol.com/Mjkarl/ethnic.htm Wedding traditions in America come from many ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This site features brief descriptions of wedding customs from various cultures and ethnic groups.

Online African Wedding Guide - http://melanet.com/awg/ The purpose of this African Wedding Guide is to give you ideas and guide you to resources. Not just one group of African traditions will be represented here, but rather a hodgepodge of traditions as well as adaptations to the ways of African Americans. We will show you how other people have had their African centered weddings.

Worldwide Wedding Customs - http://www.jmts.com/wedding/customs.htm A brief description of wedding customs from various countries and cultures.

Día de San Valentín en México http://www.inside-mexico.com/SAN.htm#boda - Aztec wedding ceremony

Japanese Weddings: Influenced by Western Custom & Market Forces http://www.hhs.se/eijs/anomaly/JWed.htm Japanese Weddings: influenced by Western customs and market forces

SAWNET: Weddings http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet/wedding.html Weddings Traditional wedding ceremonies in South Asia are designed by the families of the bride and groom, drawing on a wealth of religious and community traditions.

Jeffrey Branzburg
Supervisor of Instructional Technology
Lawrence Public Schools
Lawrence, NY
jbranzburg@lawrence.k12.ny.us