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I haven't seen a fruitcake at a wedding in......20 years??
I'm not sure if there are traditions during the wedding that are different from Americans, but in my hometown(South Western Ontario), people always have a Buck and Doe party a couple of months before the wedding. It's basically a fundraiser thrown by the bridal party for the wedding expenses. They rent out a super cheap venue...buy super cheap alcohol and charge people about $10 a ticket to come and play games/get drunk. I don't think it makes a lot of money, but I guess it's a good way to socialize pre-wedding with the engaged couple.
I've also heard that most Americans sign the legal papers for the marriage directly after the ceremony, but most Canadian weddings I've been to have included the signing of the registry directly in the wedding ceremony. Usually there is some sort of musical interlude and the bride/groom/officiant/wedding party go over to the side and sign the papers at a special table.
Those aren't very exciting customs....sorry :(
I can't think of anything different at my Canadian wedding. I do know some American brides (is this a southern thing?) do Bridal shots on a different day, and do a grooms cake, both of which I have never heard of here!
There are really limited differences in American/Canadian weddings. Fruitcake is definitely a tradition of my parents' generation! No one really does that anymore. The above posters said pretty much what I was going to say; most people don't have a groom's cake, the tradition of throwing a stag & doe (which we aren't doing, I hate the idea). I wish there was something more exciting to tell you, like we all wear Canadian flags as our veils! ;-D
eww fruitcake! gross! the only plus to that is that you can freeze your top layer forever :P
p.s. go sens go!!
Fruitcake... really???????? Ewwwwwww!
I can't think of any really - people tend to do Buck and Doe/Stag and Doe's here which I also don't like and will not be doing but other that I can't think of anything!
I don't know if there is anything exclusively Canadiana when it comes to wedding traditions. Fruitcake...going to have to ask about that one but I don't see us serving it.
Go Leafs Go.
Oh and I second cat lady - Go Leafs Go! We were slow to start off (I know that's an understatement) but hey it's early ;-)
i can't believe you ladies are openly admitting to being leafs fans :P
@bamm in Austalia we sign it during he ceremony as well, maybe it has something to do with the commonwealth?
Hey - Leafs still have the largest fan base in the league - even though the are frustratingly awful! LOL
@simpleandchic and bamn: oh I didn't even think about the signing thing. We were at a wedding in TN and thought it was odd they signed after the ceremony but really didn't think of it as being an American thing?
@OttawaBride: hecks yeah I'll admit to being a Leafs fan...le sigh. BTW, FI's cousin plays for the Sens...so yeah.
I wont have fruit cake at my wedding, cause i know most dont like it, but I love it it would have to be one of my fav cakes.........the cheese stands alone.......
Even though I'm from Southern Ontario...we're all about the Sens in my family....If I were a Leafs fan, I think my sister might punch me.
@ catlady - I didn't realize it was a 'Canadian' (or perhaps now 'Commonwealth') thing until I asked some Americans.
And I've never heard of any Canadians doing the 'trash the dress.' I'm not sure if that's an American custom or just a 'new' custom that fewer people in Canada do.
I have seen that photogs in my area offer TTD sessions but I don't know anyone who does them!
hmmm....I can;t think of anything other than the stag and doe, but I wanted to leave my mark as a Canadian!
(and I don't really follow hockey, but if I had to choose, Go LEAFS Go!)
@vistagirl My (Canadian) parents love fruitcake too! Luckily they didn't expect me to serve it at the wedding :) I only like fruitcake if it's served with hard sauce!
Last weekend at my birthday, I asked some Canadian and British friends if they had ever heard about TTD, and they were horrified. However, all the Americans had all heard of it and loved the idea. Then again...we're all expats over here, so we never really know anymore what a 'contemporary' custom is in our home countries.
Yeah, I can't really think of anything else that hasn't been mentioned already, but being Canadian I felt the need to contribute.
In terms of the stag and doe thing, I find it's a little bit regional even within Canada and has much stronger recognition in rural areas. To be honest, until I moved to southwestern Ontario I'd never really heard of a stag and doe (and I've still never been to one, as I have, let's just say "issues" with the concept).
i really think the stag and doe thing is southwestern ontario. i am from halifax where no one does it, and now live in ottawa and no one does it here either! i did spend a year of university in st. catharines, and that's where i first heard of it.
I went to a wedding in Québec with my American fiancé and he was really surprise when people started tapping on the table for the bride and groom to kiss. As far as I know the something old, something blue is not something we do in French Canadian weddings.
@OttawaBride Stag and Does seem to be a rural thing. I grew up in Toronto and had never heard of one until my parents retired to a small town in Southwestern Ontario. My DH grew up in a small town south of Ottawa, and they have them there, too. If you live in a small town with a legion, chances are they host stag and doe parties there!
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I live in Oregon but i was born in Calgary (go flames!) and my dad keeps teasing me that he will hate our cake because it won't be fruitcake and that is what canadians eat at weddings. (yes he is the only human who LIKES fruitcake)
Any of you Canadian Brides have any special wedding traditions you think American Brides might not know about?