Traditional Mexican Wedding Ceremony

The coins represent a dowry and the groom s willingness to support his new bride.

Traditional mexican wedding ceremony. Mexican wedding traditions food music. Like other weddings around the world mexican weddings can be expensive. La vibora de la mar sea snake is a fun activity that s actually more of a game than a dance so anyone can join in on no matter their dancing ability.

The couple shares their vows then the groom presents the bride with 13 silver coins in a purse. Another symbolic gesture. You ll fall in love with these symbolic mexican wedding traditions and their meanings.

It is made of corn flour butter ground chiles and pork meat. Most traditional mexican weddings will take place in a roman catholic church with many symbolic events planned throughout the ceremony. But there are three things that are unique to the mexican culture and many families continue to carry on in today s religious wedding ceremony.

Ceremony the majority of traditional spanish wedding ceremonies takes place in a church. Las arras matrimoniales wedding coins. Those rituals include the exchange of consent or.

Traditional foods include spicy rice beans tortilla dishes using chicken and beef. Like the many traditions found throughout mexico the wedding traditions also vary from city to city town to town and even family to family. Some traditional mexican wedding cakes are often rum soaked fruitcakes filled with bits of pineapple pecans or coconut.

Los padrinos y madrinas wedding sponsors. The wedding lazo also known as lasso is part of all mexican weddings. Traditional mexican wedding dances whether your guest list if full of fellow mexican americans or gringos get the party started with a few traditional dances.