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🇨🇳 China · wedding
The Chinese tea ceremony — how couples honour their elders before they're married
Tea served kneeling, the elder's red envelope in return, and why every guest reaches for their phone the moment it begins.
🇰🇷 South Korea · wedding
Pyebaek — the Korean wedding ceremony where families bow, throw dates, and trade photos
The post-ceremony family ritual is brief, intimate, and produces the photos couples keep on their living-room wall for fifty years.
🇩🇪 Germany · wedding
Polterabend — der deutsche Brauch vor der Hochzeit, bei dem Porzellan für das Glück zerschlagen wird
Am Abend vor einer deutschen Hochzeit erscheinen Freunde und Nachbarn unangemeldet mit altem Geschirr. Das Paar fegt die Scherben gemeinsam zusammen — und jemand fotografiert jede Minute.
🇮🇹 Italy · wedding
Italian weddings — confetti, the long lunch, and the photo of the 'sposi'
From the morning at the bride's home to the seven-hour lunch, the Italian wedding produces photos in three distinct waves the host can never personally attend.
🇪🇸 Spain · wedding
Spanish weddings — las arras, the lazo, and the photo of thirteen coins
Two small rituals during the ceremony — coins and a cord — produce the photos that travel back home in every family album.
🇧🇷 Brazil · wedding
Brazilian weddings — bem-casado, hora-da-gravata, and the photo guests still talk about
From the bem-casado sweets handed out as guests leave to the necktie-cutting fundraiser mid-reception, a Brazilian wedding is rituals layered for photo moments.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · wedding
Lễ ăn hỏi — the engagement procession that is half the photos of a Vietnamese wedding
The morning the groom's family walks to the bride's house with red lacquer trays of betel, areca, and tea is when the village turns out — and films every step.
🇹🇭 Thailand · wedding
Rod nam sang — the Thai water-pouring blessing that turns a wedding into a shared photo album
After the morning Buddhist chanting, every guest pours sacred water from a conch shell over the couple's hands. Each pour gets photographed.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · wedding
Siraman, akad, resepsi — three Indonesian wedding moments that produce three photo collections
From the Javanese bathing ritual the day before to the formal Islamic akad and the long Western-style resepsi, an Indonesian wedding is intentionally photogenic from start to finish.
🇪🇬 Egypt · wedding
Zaffa — the Egyptian wedding procession that brings every guest into the photo
Drums, brass, sword dancers, and a couple walking the length of the venue. The zaffa is loud, public, and the single most photographed moment of an Egyptian wedding.
🇮🇷 Iran · wedding
Sofreh aghd — the Persian wedding spread that organises a thousand photos
Honey, mirrors, sugar cones, a Quran, a poetry book — the Iranian wedding spread is a tableau guests photograph from every possible angle.
🇹🇷 Turkey · wedding
Kına gecesi — the henna night that turns a Turkish wedding into a two-day photo story
The night before the wedding, the bride cries on cue, her hands are painted with henna, and the women of two families produce more photos than the wedding itself.
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