Sunday, February 12, 2012 1:03:18 PM
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Part I: The PastThis 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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Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:50:13 PM
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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
), 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.)Read more...
Saturday, December 10, 2011 9:51:57 PM
norway, food, traditions, oslo
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One thing I have immensely enjoyed, but didn’t anticipate when I began blogging about my observations of Norwegian culture, is getting questions from school students all over the world about Norway for their class assignments. And the topic their assignments most often touch on is Christmas in Norway.
As such I thought I would make it easy for everyone out there by combining my past observations of Norwegian Christmas traditions into one post.
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Saturday, January 29, 2011 6:03:37 PM
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I hope everyone had a happy holiday season, and is (so far) sticking to their new year’s resolutions. In my
previous blog post I mentioned the
yuletide advertisement aired by NSB, the national railway service here, which makes many references to Norwegian Christmas traditions.
The advertisement shows a young man travelling home by train for Christmas, and seeing things around him that remind him of the season. I thought I’d take the opportunity to explain these little homages, to give my friends abroad and back home a little more insight into local Christmas traditions here (with links to the videos and all, for you to enjoy!).
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