Wedding Rings

Norwegian wedding traditions

Question:

> The impressions from watching marriages around me and hearing descriptions > about marriages, it seems to me that marriage customs in general are picked > up from American soaps. > That I believe, makes us continental, only we belong to whatever continent > the set of customs projected in the soap comes from. Or maybe we could call > it continentlessness, aka reverse emotional incontinens?

Agree, these mail order marriages are getting to be pretty hilarious, but most will have another shot at redoing it anyway. Gunnar

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> Whether Norway is continental or insular in this respect I don’t know.

I am hardly the right person to comment on this, since my knowledge about marriage customs is purely academic, but this is very, very hard to resist. The impressions from watching marriages around me and hearing descriptions about marriages, it seems to me that marriage customs in general are picked up from American soaps. That I believe, makes us continental, only we belong to whatever continent the set of customs projected in the soap comes from. Or maybe we could call it continentlessness, aka reverse emotional incontinens? Arne

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[crossposted to alt.wedding] +—–< David Steele > |     Oh yes, and I believe the Norwegians (like the rest of Scandinvaia |     (?))  wear their wedding rings on the right hand instead of the |     left. +- In continental Europe, the wedding band is often worn on the right hand, while engagement bands are worn on the left. In Sweden and England, the wedding ring is worn on the left hand. In Sweden, the bride after the wedding wears both the engagement band and the wedding band on her left hand, while the groom only wears the engagement band (thus no wedding band for the groom!). The Swedish practice is sometimes misinterpreted in Spain, where only a widow wears two bands: hers and her late husband’s. Whether Norway is continental or insular in this respect I don’t know. —          ______                     _~         (_/_ _  _  _/) _  . /)     / ) , _/)     _        __/ _/(_(/_(/__/(_/_/Z_    (_/_/)_/__/))_(I_/)_

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