Cut the Cake
Before sweet cakes at weddings, which baked pastry did the Ancient Greeks break over their new bride's head to signify her submission and end of her purity, as well as good luck and fertility?
Bread
A travel agent falls in love with a man outside her culture and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Which people were tasked with walking a bride down the aisle as old as biblical times, and helped coin the term "bridesmaids"
the bride's maids.
Despite being legally married to another criminal, this lady was famous for being romantically involved with a well known robber, and died with him.
Bonnie
16 years old she married Roy but their marriage fell apart and he was put in jail for robbery. She never officially divorced him and wore his wedding ring even while with Clyde.
In many Eastern countries, brides where this color on their wedding day.
Red
During the Middle Ages cake was made into high tiers. What first act did newly weds have to do over the cake, without knocking it over for good luck?
Kiss.
A strong willed boss forces her employee to marry her in order to avoid getting deported from the US to Canada, only to fall in love with him for real.
The Proposal.
What is the largest number of bridesmaids in one bridal party?
126.
Sri Lanka
This bride changed the marriage traditions forever with a very special wedding held in 1840. She was the first married reigning Queen since Queen Mary.
Queen Victoria.
Because of her brides where white, and bridesmaids carry flowers.
In this culture, the bride and groom are hoisted up in chairs.
Jewish.
In the 17th and 18th century, sugar was made more affordable and so the cakes began to be iced. What color was the icing of those first wedding cakes?
White.
Always a bridesmaid never a bride, in this movie a bridesmaid struggles to stand beside her sister while she marries the man she's secretly in love with.
27 Dresses
There's no bride here! In ancient Rome and China bridesmaids would dress identical to the bride to protect her from what?
Evil Spirits and bandits.
This bride was well loved by all. She was cherished and adored by everyone up around the world until and even after her fatal death.
Princess Diana
In this country, a bride and groom must saw a log in half successfully to symbolize the obstacles they will face together.
Germany.
The oldest wedding cake.
It is fully preserved and can be viewed at the museum.
A story within a story, this unwilling bride is set to marry a prince when she is whisked off by the "Dread Pirate Roberts" and is taken on a wild adventure.
The Princess Bride.
Who normalized a floral bouquet instead of a fragrant herb one, carried by bridesmaids to keep everyone smelling fresh?
Queen Victoria
Though sold to her husband by her brother for a golden crown, this bride quickly falls so much in love with her husband, she ask a slave woman to bring him back from the dead.
Daenerys Targaryen
In this country, after the wedding, the groom is stripped of shoes & socks and his feet are tied together. While answering riddles and questions, the soles of his feet are whacked with a stick, rod, or dried fish.
South Korea
British-born designer Debbie Wingham created the worlds most expensive cake. It was commission for an anonymous buyer for his daughter's joint birthday and engagement party. How much money did this cake cost?
75 million dollars.
Kina Granis' rendition of "Can't Help Falling in Love" plays as this bride of this multi-million dollar wedding walks down the water-inlaid aisle in the backdrop of Singapore.
Crazy Rich Asians.
The maid of honor had many important tasks, such as putting blood on the newlyweds' sheets. What was another important and archaic task assigned the Maid of Honor?
She held the monetary portion of the dowry.
Miss Havisham from Great Expectations.
In this country the bride and groom have to catch a baby chicken and cut it apart looking for a healthy liver while holding the knife together. They must do this before setting a wedding date.
Mongolia