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Hola, My choice this time is Mexican wedding traditions and there are many wonderful ones. So I will get started. You might find something you would like to incorporate in your coming wedding.

In Mexico certain traditions are followed in different cultures. They turn out to be the most enjoyable parts of the entire day. I will include some traditions from some of these cultures.

Wedding Expenses

Both families are most often involved in planning nod sharing the expenses of the wedding in some way.

Wedding Colors
The bride is the one who chooses the colors for the wedding day. Everything is decorated in these colors including the cars that are used that day. The ceremony aisle is scattered with her colors and the pew bows and flowers will also reflect these colors.

Wedding Invitations and Programs

The couple almost always recognizes by name the many family members, bridal party and attendants in their wedding invitations and / or programs for the day.

Mexican Wedding Attire

Most brides wear lovely mantilla veils and they can be simple or as elegant as she chooses. Often she wears a slim white dress with an embroidered bolero jacket. The
choice might also be a white flamenco-style dress with ruffles at the skirt hemline.

For the groom it would probably be handsomely dresses in a Mexican wedding shirt with drawstring pants or a bolero jacket with tight fitting pants.

Wedding Ceremony

The wedding ceremony itself includes many traditions that reflect the Aztec and Catholic cultural roots.

One of the very beautiful traditions is two floral bouquets are carried down the aisle.
One by the bride and one by an attendant. In honor of the Virgin Mary it is placed by the bride usually at her statue or image at the conclusion of the ceremony.

El Lazo or Lasso
It is a large loop of rosary beads which is placed in a figure eight around the necks of the groom and then the bride and they continue to wear it until the ceremony is over.

The loop is a symbol of the love that binds them as they share their marriage responsibilities. After it is removed, El lazo is given to the bride as a memento that
she has become the mistress of the groom's heart.

13 Gold Coins (Arras)

The groom presents the bride with 13 gold coin. This represents Christ and his 12 apostles. It symbolizes trust and his promise to trust her with his finances and when they are accepted by the bride it is her promise to take this trust seriously and with prudence and care.

As the wedding ceremony begins the coin are given to the priest to bless. He then hands them to the best man who returns them to the priest near the end of the ceremony.

The priest then returns them to the groom who gives them back to the bride now ending her with his finances.

Mexican Wedding Food and Music

Adding a Latin flavor with music is of course a great thing with the rhythms of salsa, merenge, and flamenco and the romance of tango, rumba, samba and bolero.

The Latin music is a nice accompaniment for the Mexican food serve which is typically tortilla dishes with a main ingredient if chicken or beef. The side dishes beans, spicy rice and anything else which might be a family favorite.

Mexican Wedding Money Dance

This is a popular and favorite dance for the bride and groom's benefit. Male guests "pay" the bride to have a dance with them. The men are expected to be quite generous since the money collected is traditionally supposedly to be used for their honeymoon and getting the house set up.

Well there you go with some ideas of the truly wonderful traditions of different regions and cultures of Mexico.

I hope you find something you might like to use in those Mexican Wedding traditions.

Adios

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Source by Tiffany Cole