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Norwegian Wedding Traditions: Past to Present

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Part I: The Past

This is the second in a series of blog posts about wedding traditions and customs in Norway. Last time I looked at the way hens and bucks nights are celebrated in Norway, and this edition we take a brief look at older wedding traditions in Norway.

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Here Comes the Norwegian Bride

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An Introduction to Norwegian Wedding Traditions

I first began writing a blog post about wedding traditions in Norway back in May 2010, shortly before I attended my first Norwegian wedding. I researched so much about bachelor and bachelorette parties, traditions, statistics and such that I ended up overwhelming myself with the details and never finished writing the blog post. Now that I'm planning my own wedding (yes, wedding planning is why I've been too busy to blog for the last 10 months bigsmile), I find myself looking again at Norwegian wedding customs and was excited again to write on this theme. To make the process easier I thought I might divide this topic into a series of blog posts, looking at a new aspect of weddings each time. So, here we go! (Pictured: Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon and his wife Crown Princess Mette-Marit on their wedding day in 2001.)

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