{"id":5414,"date":"2015-02-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2015\/02\/25\/marriage-traditions-of-the-world-language-of-love\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:58:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:58:10","slug":"marriage-traditions-of-the-world-language-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2015\/02\/25\/marriage-traditions-of-the-world-language-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Traditions of the World: Language of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently became engaged and I am fully immersed in planning a late summer wedding.\u00a0 I am breaking a few of the modern-day American wedding traditions by having a small, family-only ceremony at a winery and trading out the standard sit down dinner and dancing reception for a more intimate cocktail party reception, we are even having our dog walk down the aisle.\u00a0 I appreciate big, beautiful weddings, but for me and my fianc\u00e9, it was important to have a smaller wedding with our nearest and dearest.\u00a0 Thankfully, our families supported our non-traditional plans, but it got me thinking a lot about wedding traditions.<\/p>\n<p>Globalization Partners International\u00ae has teams around the world, and one of my favorite things about working for GPI is having the opportunity to learn about my coworkers&#8217; cultures.\u00a0 So, I thought it would be interesting to research the wedding traditions of a few of my coworkers&#8217; countries: Argentina, Egypt, Greece, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States.\u00a0 The wedding traditions of each of these countries are rich and unique, and too numerous to list in one blog.\u00a0 But, I would like to highlight some of the traditions I found most interesting.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Argentina<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/marriage202_329x230.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding 2\" width=\"329\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Weddings in Argentina are often vibrant affairs, with emphasis placed on celebrating late into the night at the reception; with food, dancing and alcohol. \u00a0A pre-wedding tradition I discovered through my <a href=\"https:\/\/muslim-marriage-guide.com\/wedding-traditions.html\">research<\/a> is the way the rings are presented.\u00a0 The wedding rings are exchanged at the engagement, rather than at the wedding.\u00a0 The rings are worn on the right hand until the ceremony, where they are then blessed and moved to the left hand. \u00a0An interesting alternative to an engagement ring and exchanging wedding bands at the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently became engaged and I am fully immersed in planning a late summer wedding.\u00a0 I am breaking a few of the modern-day American wedding traditions by having a small, family-only ceremony at a winery and trading out the standard sit down dinner and dancing reception for a more intimate cocktail party reception, we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1310,265,1311,207,1309,868,1308,1307],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5414"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15535,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5414\/revisions\/15535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}