Weddings of the World
is a new television series that invites you to attend romantic ceremonies from around the world,
celebrated right here in
New Zealand.
Each episode follows the biggest day in a couples life.
Their wedding. You'll meet their family and friends, hear revealing stories and witness some of the most surprising and unexpected wedding rituals.
At a Chinese wedding the
prospective husband shoots his bride with a bow and arrow several times then collects the arrows and breaks them during the ceremony, to ensure their love lasts forever?
In Fiji when a man asks a woman's father for her hand in marriage, he must present his future father-in-law with a whale's tooth. More rare
than hens teeth.
It's hard to get foot loose at an Irish wedding when the bride and groom are dancing with both feet on the floor at all times. Irish folklore states that if they don't, evil fairies will come and sweep her away.
See Indian women gather with their closest girlfriends and sit for hours at a time to have their skin intricately painted, in tattoo fashion, with menhdi, which is paint made from henna.
Scottish, Japanese, Russian, Maori. All cultures have their own, enchanting, extraordinary and even bizzare rituals, and yet we are all married in a union of...
Love.
you say it, or where you are from, let's celebrate...
This is Weddings of the World.
© 2017 Christopher Tegg