Irish Wedding Traditions
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- Here are my Top 10 Irish Wedding Traditions and the history behind them. Some of these are still practiced today, some of them are pretty uncommon now but they all have a lot of history in old wedding ceremonies going back hundreds or even thousands of years.
1. Handfasting
2. The Magic Hanky
3. The Child of Prague
4. Mí na Meala
5. A Lucky Horseshoe
6. Claddagh ring
7. Sixpence in her Shoe
8. Make Up Bell
9. Irish Wedding Coin
10. Ring Warming Ceremony
Old and unique Irish wedding traditions and Irish wedding ceremonies.
#irishwedding #weddingsinireland #ireland
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Lindsay, I want you to know that you made my wife cry over all the Irish traditions. We were amazed at how many of the ancient traditions are still used today in one form or another. Keep hitting us with more Irish traditions or games or meals or anything else you can think of. We love watching your videos.
Thank you so much. I'll keep them coming :)
I intended to apologise for writing such a long comment. However, as an Irishwoman, married over 30 years, I could think of a few more, including wedding pranks (above - I think) "Thaistil muid an domhan ach ta Eire fos sa bhaile".
I wore an Irish 6 pence in my shoe at my wedding 44 years ago. It seems to have worked.
It is also known as a tanner
So it could be said there's a little Irish in almost every wedding. How wonderful!
Thank you! My fiancé is of Irish decent. Our marriage will be the first interracial marriage for both families & I truly want to show the history & honor from both sides (Irish & Mexican) thank you for the video! This is a great baseline & I’ll start planning 💗
Irish and Mexican is hardly unusual, at least here in the Southwest, as we are the largest groups in the local Catholic Church. That's most of my relatives and many of my friends. Not to mention Anthony Quinn and a host of others. I don't know if you're Catholics but religion always trumps ethnicity.
mexican-irish wedding!!!
two magical cultures in one event
chers!
My husband is Mexican and im Irish. But im American. Just ethnically irish. Id like to learn more about irish culture as it was lost over time on both sides of my family.
I carried the Christening Bonnet in my hand for my wedding then our daughters wore it when they were baptised. (Our hankie and christening gown have been in our family since the 1800’s.) I did the six pence in my shoe with a panty liner over it, 😂, the priest did the hand fastening with his stole, I had shamrocks and the claddagh sewn into my dress (family custom). We had our horseshoe blessed by the priest the day prior and had it propped up on a stand for our guests to bless. I wasn’t bucking family tradition! 27+ years later going strong. My Nana gave us my great Nana’s Lismore bell. We ring it just for fun as we never fight 😂. Brilliant job bringing the customs to light.
I'm going to incorporate some of these ceremonies in my wedding in the near future. Our traditions and heritage is being deleted at record pace. Our Folk DESERVE to live on, and so we MUST.
My husband and I incorporated hand-fasting in our wedding :)
I’m from Mexico and I don’t know why I’m watching this but I like it lol
Same
Haha! I'm from Australia, my grandmother is Irish though?
My fiancé is a first generation Australian, all of his family are Irish (he’s a citizen) and it’s important to me that we keep Irish traditions in our wedding and that our children learn the culture. Sometimes when you don’t have a culture (as lots of Aussies don’t) you can feel a bit ungrounded. Thank you 💕
You're a stellar ambassador for the country. Fair play, you were born to do this!
My fiancé, who is of Irish descent, and I plan to incorporate handfasting during our wedding ceremony!
I have a claddagh ring. My mother found a company in Ireland and got me one for my birthday (a year ago next month) with my birthstone for the heart. The only time I take it off is to shower or wash dishes. Other than that I wear it all the time.
My grandmother was from Belfast so when I got married here in Canada I had a horseshoe charm sewn into my dress. I also gave one to my cousin to sew into her wedding dress to honour our Irish grandmothers. I wish I had known about the handfasting as I would have done that as well.
Aw these traditions sounds so sweet, now I want to attend an Irish wedding.
I did not know about the Claddagh ring and the meaning of the way the heart faces or that the rhyme ends with sixpence in her shoe. Very enlightening
I MIL brought me a sixpence to use the morning I was marrying her son. I couldn’t put it in my shoe due to the type of shoe I was wearing, but I did tuck it into the front of my dress and wore it until after the reception…..
Southerns have a thing similar to The Child of Prague but Southern myth state that the couple must visit their wedding venue exactly a month before the wedding date and bury a full bottle of bourbon upside down. to ward of rain. and then dug up post ceremony and drink in celebration.
I love the Celtic rings very beautiful having two hands meet in one with a beautiful heart. Thank you very much for this information.
You are 5 and a half legends, thanks for taking the the time to validate the things you are talking about (and we are all learning so it's a changing game). Some of the traditions are a wee bit different where I'm from and I love the way you cover that. My daughter in Australia will learn from you (as one of many sources) and I'm proud of the example you are leading. Keep her lit
I am about 75% Irish and Scottish (British but same thing!) and then Swedish for the rest so I am proud to say this American knew a couple of these! If I ever get married someday I will definitely incorporate these into the ceremony
What I find interesting is looking at these traditions in comparison to similar ones that were brought to America, when my relatives immigrated from Ireland. We were told that, if the horseshoe is hung on a wall or interior door, it must be open end up, to catch blessings, but if it is over a front door, it must be open end down, so as to pour blessings of protection out on those who are leaving the home. The sixpence one was changed to a penny in her shoe. We were also told about bells scaring away evil, so the bride and groom would be chased around until midnight after the wedding, with bells, by friends and family, if the friends and family could find the couple (like a wedding hide and seek). And, because we were historically Orthodox and not Catholic, hand fasting was not a family tradition, but instead unity candles were, which I understand also originated in Ireland.
Loved hearing about Irish traditions. Being of Irish heritage I knew very few of these. Thank you. 😀
the handfasting tradition sounds really neat - so does the origins of honeymoon
Wow! I had no idea that all the wedding traditions I heard growing up in the US are Irish!
Love hearing all these Irish traditions !!
My mom told me the handkerchief tradition.
Even have mine used for my first born and now she will use.
Such a sweet tradition! 💗
Beautiful, our people and their ways live on, through you and your daughter. Thank you so much.
Videos like these are really important to me. My grandmother was born in Ireland and moved to Canada as a teenager. She ended up refusing to practice any irish traditions, or teach her children them. So I never got a chance to learn any traditons or anything
I'm Dutch and even I got a six pence in my shoe on our wedding day, and the something old/new/borrowed/blue naturally.
In chatolic churches our priests in Croatia actualy wrap their stola around the brides and grooms hands and is blessing them. They have to give hands to each other and then the priest wraps stola around their conected hands and then he blesses them. Stola is a narow thing that is just hanging from priests shoulders like a scarf and has little cross inbroidered on it.
I love learning about etiquette and customs of countries around the world. 🎉
Wolfe Momma thank you for sharing the Irish wedding traditions. It was interesting to me to watch your video. I'm from Russia. Can you imagine I had 1,2 3( Yes!!! I like to travel), 4 and 8 in Russia!!!
Such beautiful traditions.
I love this! I saw the girls irish names. That is what brought me to you're channel. 😊
Oh my gosh! These are so good! I love the ring warming! And I also Love the history you included! It made it so much more meaningful! 😍 Thank you
I love this theme, dear Wolfe Momma So most beautiful Irish l tradition. Many greetings, always for you share your amazing videos. Many blessings to you. 😘💖🤗😘🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👍☘☘☘
Oh I need to meet a woman willing to have a simple claddagh ring as an engagement/wedding ring. 😊
Ghe Honey moon Honey wine tradition was my favorite!
Ms. Linsey, thank you so much for sharing these beautiful Irish traditions. Now, gotta find a Irish lady to marry. Do you know of a Irish lady about 60 years old that want to marry a 61 year old American man??
i have a claddagh ring it was my maimeos it is one of my favorite traditions
I’m from the Philippines. :) I like watching your channel. Very informative on Irish culture and the accent! Would like to visit Ireland someday. 😊
Thank you for this. I'm really enjoying your Irish tradition videos.
Hello my pretty you love ireland
I love your videos, you have such a friendly and positive vibe and your content is super interesting! Thank you and pls keep on making these videos 😍
Aw thank you so much!! 💗
Thank you so much for your clear and cheerful explications of irishness! As an non-native resident ( who loves the whole Irish culture), I wish I had known these things years ago. Btw, I have a grandchild Oisin and a Blanaid-my dear dog was also called Daire. Please do a few more of these things-we need more! Much appreciated!x
Beautiful video! Thank you ☘️💚☘️
I love Ireland and I was curious what your wedding traditions are..and I was really suprised with the Baby of Prague custom, because I am Czech and I live in Prague :-)
Is it the same tradition there?
There is a Baby of Prague in most homes in Ireland when I was growing up my Mom had one.
Nope we don't do it here:) most czech people don't even know some child of prague statue exists...
im american but very irish more then 50 percent im only 15 at the moment but i want to cary on the traditions of my for fathers
Wonderful! Thank you!
Oh my gosh I love all of these! This was so so interesting and very informative x
Oh wow! I love the information about Walt Disneys claddagh ring. I've never know that..thank you!
Incredible traditions. Thank you
Love this video! So happy I found your channel!!💗
Just lovely - so much beauty in them. Wish I had known these for my own wedding.
Thanks for sharing.... I absolutely love Ireland and I love learning more about Irish traditions from watch your videos
We are Irish who eloped in Barbados 20 years ago and she (the rev) tied our hands like that and l thought it was beautiful. I'd never seen it done at any weddings here.
Beautiful
Thank you for explaining the origins of these ‘traditions’.
It’s laudable to follow and continue but more so understanding the history and not doing so out of habit.
Awesome video!
What the fairy lovely Irish wedding rituals have been originated and implementing!
these are great i will do most of them thanks
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I've managed to find a real six pence, but since we're getting married on a beach and I'm going to be barefoot, I'm planning to crochet a coin holder and wear it on my ankle! 💕
Thank you so much for it all great video thank you i am wearing my claddgh ring on the left hand side of my finger now my boyfriend has a friendship ring for me he is hiding it very well i am just looking forward to seeing the day he puts it all thanks. Loved all of your numbers
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My grandparents both came from the same parish in Cork but met and married in Boston after emigrating. The tribes their families came from have been intermarrying, which strict rules about avoiding too close a relationship between the couple's ancestors, for about 2,000 years. My grandmother was living, with some other Cork girls her age, in a house owned by an older Cork woman who was supposedly a friend of her parents. She stood in for my great grandparents at the wedding (of course they were back in Ireland). She enforced a rule on the wedding night that the bride and groom must sleep apart until she was escorted to her new home the next day. My grandfather would have none of this so he and his brothers, my granduncles, kidnapped Grandma, with her consent of course, and took her home (since they all lived in one tenement apartment). I've heard of ritual bridal kidnapping in other countries, especially in the Near and Middle East, but I'm curious if anyone else knows of it in Ireland. My clan is very ancient and there are some other practices which, as a child I thought everybody did, almost nobody else has ever heard of or think were only done in ancient times.
I’d love to hear about some of these traditions! Can you share more?
I carried a handkerchief from my great grandmother on my wedding day
I’ve only heard of two of these! And I’m Irish and had a traditional Catholic Church Irish wedding!
They are all very common in Ireland except for the hand binding which is not used in Catholic ceremonies any more but definitely used in civil ceremonies
. The only one I haven't heard of is the ring warming
My mom has a lot of Irish in her and I do to so I want to have some Irish in my wedding!
I see your number 4 Mi na Meala and I am from Clonmel Bulmers Country (Irish: Cluain Meala, meaning 'honey meadow') what a great Channel you have I will have
to give you a sub keep up the good work.
I like the makeup bell.
i have no idea why im here but im not complaining
Nice video love your accent, what county are ye from? I'm guessing some where in Leinster.
She said she was from Wicklow in another video.
that child of prague was the same one as on derry girls lmao
Ah no way! I love derry girls but haven't seen all the episodes 🙂💗
Wolfe Momma it’s in series 2, such a funny episode
I read plague Im sorry
The "warming of the ring" is actually done today in some meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) but then with coins handed out for different lengths of sobriety. I wouldn't be surprised if this goes back to the Irish tradition, seeing Ireland's contribution to the culture of drinking!
That's a bit low to assume Irish people are all fond of alcohol total myth
🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤ hello dear fairy please you take me Ireland I love Iranland
Am here because my man is Irish and ready for marriage together and he told me we are having an Irish wedding😊
We have a horseshoe facing up near our entrance door. So far we had lots off luck
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Wolfe Momma, I so love your channel. Watching the Quiet Man Maureen O'Hara speaks of "Thrashing Parties" as part of her nd Sean courting. What are they? What are the traditional courting practices?
I'm not sure what thrashing parties are but I'm guessing something to do with farming? Like thrashing the hay.. maybe a harvest party type of thing? Sorry, not too sure but they're not a common part of courting these days in Ireland :)
@@WolfeMomma thank you so much for taking time to reply. I'm not sure as well. Maybe is was an ad lib on the script of the movie. My son (Sean) asked what they were. You may be right, maybe a time of year when harvesting is happening. Very possible, since her brother was a farmer. Thank you!
@@jamesmonahan9408 In the old days farmers would have helped each other harvest the crops.each village or more accurately parish would probably have only the one steam thrashing machine ,so the comunity would gather around and help eachother thrash the corn which also have been an important part of the social life of the parish providing an opportunity for couples to meet .Nowadays that doesn't exist farmers don't cooperate in that fashion ,because of modern technology and because they farm now for cash and don't directly subsist on what they produce,hence there is no need for a dairy or beef farmer to grow crops ,unless they are tillage farmers .
@@galoglaich3281 WOW! that makes so much sense. Shows, also, the sense of community. Thank you so very much!
@@jamesmonahan9408 In those times people just wouldn't survive without the community.Helping your neighbour was a form of currency and the favour had to be returned .
I carried my late grandmother's lace handkerchief, woven herself, as my "something blue" ("forget-me-nots" were woven, into the lace). I've NEVER seen a "claddagh" used as an engagement or wedding ring anymore (although I do own one myself but rarely wear it). We have TWO "make-up bells" but never needed them in thirty-three years of marriage, as my husband has never raised his hand, never mind his voice to me although he was kind enough to say I never gave him reason & looked appalled on the couple of occasions I pointed it out. In Ireland & most of Europe, bridesmaids do NOT buy their own dresses (I think it's vulgar to ask someone you're so close to for the "honour" of being in the bridal party, then ask them to pay for their own outfits. Same goes for the groom. He pays for all suit rentals & boutonnieres. In fact, anything that isn't "ultra-modern" has strict rules about who pays for what. I think the Irish have set, "the gold standard" when it comes to pranking the happily married couple, especially if they're staying in the same location as the reception. Whether you're staying in the same location, to try & throw the guests off, as to where you'll be spending your wedding night (not that it matters to most nowadays) & save their sanity & achieve a bit of privacy, at last, in Ireland, we make a big deal out of "driving away on honeymoon" after the reception. We walked out to see our car full of newsprint (unused) & the car covered in balloons & cans tied to the back bumper. As we tried to pull what was now a solid mass of paper out of one side our "friends" pushed it back in the other. I must admit, I was exhausted & it got old, so my new husband took one look at me & said, "Balloons, tins & paper, who cares? We'll pull over & take it out ourselves at the next "lay by", which we did, as passengers in passing cars hooted & laughed. It goes from a very gentle, having a bottle of champagne waiting in the room/Bridal Suite with a tray FULL of glasses & a, "See you later" note attached. To the worst I ever heard of. A group of young men arranged to "borrow" a cow from a local farmer, then they walked her into the lift & up to the room - where they left her, until the unfortunate couple arrived for their wedding night !! The late night wedding "supper" where people, not so close to the couple are invited is something I think should be done away with. It says to the "late guests", "Yes, you weren't important enough to come to the ceremony so here's a mini canape to remind you!! At one, memorable after party, the bride & groom were the last to leave & tradition says No One leaves before they do!! As an old married lady can I offer some wedding advice. Your "wedding" lasts for ONE day. Your "marriage" should last a lifetime! Keep those thoughts & the expense in mind that too many are forgetting, sadly most are "Bridezillas" who demand almost a Hollywood production - your first serious fight may begin before you're even married.
Great comment and sage advice!! Thanks for bring up some other traditions I'd almost forgotten about. Thanks!!!
I’m American, but very Irish. My family practices quite a few traditions and I’m trying to get more in touch and would love to do some of these. I’m just scared of being ridiculed for trying too hard or something because I’m American and my heritage isn’t pure Irish and my upbringing is only what’s lasted in a few generations.
Hey. Decide on the ceremonies you want to carry out, and quietly go about making them happen. If you're questioned, you simply explain it matter of factly and continue on. Anyone with a decent level of respect will nicely leave you too it, or join you. I'm so glad you found yourself here.
Do what you feel is right & enjoy. Be happy🌈🌼🌻🌸🍀
The Handfasting is a nornal part of Catholic and Anglican weddings. ^^ It's not something Kate and William specifically picked.
In the U.S. it good luck to have rain on toir wedding day
we have a saying here in paddyland
happy is the corpse that it rains upon
Hii, I hope you can help me. Could you please share with me some basic dress code etiquette for guests assisting to an Irish wedding?
Unless there's a specific dress code (black tie or something) it's usually cocktail attire. Men wear suits, women wear moderately formal dresses. Full length dresses are usually only for formal/black tie specified dress code. I'd avoid the colour white/ivory but any other colour is grand. Hope that helps! 💗
@@WolfeMomma thank you!
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Dear Momma:Could i know if there's a tradition of requesting the money from the bride's siblings or relatives coming to the bridegroom 's home for purpose of accepting the bride as the married couple?I love the last one .
interesting!! it made me dream about marrying an Irish woman....
Fine
I had an Irish six pence in my shoe. It didn’t hurt.
If you're irish I'm sure you'll agree that there is nothing more romantic than when a guy proposes on saint Patrick's
the Claude ring 💍 I gave my wife that
Ah, I always wonder why Grandma McCarthy kept a bell on the side table in her dining room. Her husband died years before I was born, but she kept it out.
@JJ MAIN MAN No, she was from Ballina. Her husband was from Cork though.
@@courtneyshannon2621 So presumably your Cork grandfather was one of us?
@@brianmccarthy5557 Sort of. He was born in Massachusetts but his mother died shortly thereafter so when he was four his father sent him to live with cousins in Ballydevlin. He then moved back to the US when he was done with school when he was a teenager.
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Go seachtrach, tá tú cosúil linne, níos mó ná an Béarla, ach tá an teanga an-chasta.🇺🇦
Soooooo I have been born and raised in America, but I have a lot of Irish in my roots and sometimes an accent comes out...anybody know why?
Wait, they don’t stay tied that whole first year do they?
The Child of Prague is what we call Sr. Sto. Niño her in Cebu Philippines, we celebrate Sinulog Festival in honor of this miraculous child...i was surprised in your video, coz im applying to work in Ireland and i will bring with me my Sr. Sto. niño,
I thought handfasting was done by couples who were too far out to reach a priest and the handfast lasted a year and a day to give them time to reach a priest or get one to come to them??
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child o prague is the only i know of
the rest are
i dont like to say
it was over 20,000 years ago when Irish TV was invented lol.
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