5 bizarre marriage rituals you won’t believe actually exist.

Not everyone throws bouquets and cut cakes, other cultures have different ways to go about celebrating the big day.
Weddings may be celebrated worldwide but traditions vary depending on culture » and country.
Not everyone throws bouquets and cut cakes, other cultures have different ways » to go about celebrating the big day.
1. Shooting the bride, China
In China’s Yugur culture, grooms shoot their future brides with a bow and arrow three times. The groom then breaks the arrows to ensure the couple stay in love forever.
2. Fat farms, Mauritania
In Mauritania, girls aged between five and 15 are sent to “fat farms” before their wedding to gain some weight. If a bride had stomach rolls, stretch marks and overlapping thighs, it signalled her husband was wealthy enough to keep her satisfied.
3. Blackening of the bride, Scotland
Scottish brides-to-be are taken by surprise by their friends ahead of the big day, and stoned with all sorts of rubbish such as bad milk, dead fish, spoiled food, tar and feathers. She is then tied to a tree. The belief is that if she can withstand this kind of treatment, she can handle anything that comes her way in her marriage.
4. Marrying a tree, India
In parts of India women born as Mangliks (an astrological combination when Mars and Saturn are both under the 7th house), are said to be “cursed” and thought to cause their husband an early death. In order to counter this, they must first be married to a tree and the tree cut down to break the curse.
5. Drinking from the toilet, France
Newlyweds in France are forced to drink leftovers from their wedding out of a toilet bowl.
Nowadays, chocolate and champagne are used as a substitute, but still served out of a toilet. The idea was to give the bride and groom strength before their wedding