UNUSUAL CUSTOM TO PICK THE BRIDE #LOVE #COMEDY #TRADITION

Love is said to be eternal, but picking a bride involves quite strange and tedious custom.

A custom exist in Combodia and among some African tribes, where unmarried teens are even encouraged to stay in 'courting huts' to entertain potential suitors away from the parents' gaze. In these huts, they are allowed to explore multiple partners, all in a quest to find that true love.

In an annual courtship event, the men of the Woodabe Fula in Niger dress up in elaborate costumes, put on make-up and dance and sing in a bid to win a bride. At the end of the performance it is the women who get to do the choosing.

In Wales the lover is presented with a meticulously carved wooden spoon as a gesture that they will always feed and provide for them. If the affections are not mutual, the spoon is returned. If the spooning is successful, the sweetheart must wear it round their necks for a number of days.

'Jumping the broom' means in American Deep South is that the newly weds leap hand-in-hand over a ceremonial broom, which symbolises the start of their journey into a new life together.

Divorce on the day of marriage is a tradition in Ukraine. The extremely traditional couples take revenge on their matchmaker by burning an effigy of them at their wedding ceremony in anticipation of a potential messy divorce in the future.

In a weird tradition, French newly weds are made to drink the leftovers from their wedding party out of a toilet bowl.

In a celebration of of the feast of St Sargis, the patron saint of young love, unmarried American women eat a slice of salty bread in the hopes of having a prophetic dream about the man they'll marry.

K V George