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Any other Croatian brides??!

asialee2asialee2 member
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I am part Croatian and I want to incorporate part of the heritage into the wedding. My mom, (who is a Croat,) did not incorporate anything into her wedding and has no idea what typical traditions are. The only things I can find are the grooms buying, (yep, paying the brides parents) the bride, using a bow to shoot an apple and rosemary as a sign of good luck. 
Are their any other traditions I can put into wedding to represent my motherland???
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Re: Any other Croatian brides??!

  • hellerc1hellerc1
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    I am not a Croatian bride but I googled it and this site came up and it seems to have a lot of information on it.

    http://www.croatia-wedding.com/croatian-wedding-traditions-and-customs

    My fav was "Button holes were traditionally Rosemary wrapped in red, white and blue coloured ribbon."
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  • asialee2asialee2 member
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    I was playing around with that idea, the only issue is that Rosemary is a very potent smell... then I started to think maybe put a few Rosemary strands in my bouquet.. arg! 
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  • HorcatsHorcats
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    I'm Croatian and also getting married. What I've found is that food might be a good way to represent. Pita, burek, baklava, kolaci would be great ways to bring something Croatian in. Kolaci would make great favors. I also know that a lot of those customs are old-fashioned and not done anymore (except in villages), so unless you're doing an outdoor ceremony it might be difficult to shoot an apple or all walk to the bride's house.

    I was going to tie a small piece of rosemary with a ribbon and have the flower girls hand it to each guest for good luck (or you could put it on their plates as favors) And have some Croatian music (I put some CDs on my ipod), we'll have dancing (kolo), and I'm considering getting traditional shoes (they have them in Sarajevo and I have family there) which are Bosnian, techinically, but would still be nice. They come in lots of colors (and are flat, which is great for my outdoor wedding).

    People also often give money at Croatian weddings (if they are Croatian), so be sure that you have somewhere they can put it so you don't have to keep track of envelopes.

    Other Croatian traditions co-exist with English/American ones, including the throwing of the bouquet, garter toss, and lighting of the candle in rememberence of a loved-ones' passing. And you could always read a Croatian poem--lots of translations exist online.
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  • asialee2asialee2 member
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    Ohhhh good call on the food... I should probably stock the bar with Sljivovica too, hey? Thankyou Horcats!
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