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This website is a wedding photography portfolio, but I found this
odd old book called "strange customs of courtship and marriage"
Below is a excerpt from that book. Warning, its strange stuff.

A BROTHER-IN-LAW COMPLEX.—The wedding customs of the
Southern Slavs and people of the Balkan peninsula take on
some peculiar forms. Young married women enter into a very
intimate relation with their bride attendants, two of whom
attend a bride on the wedding day. The bride is a very young
girl, and in accordance with the local custom is given to a
man has never seen before, and, by the logic of the circum-
stances, does not like and seems determined never to like.

comes into a strange wedding photographer seattle house where it is incumbent upon
for the rest of life, or their lives, to show parents-in-
law the greatest humility and submission. Wedding photographer seattle. This is an in-law
situation that is not altogether unique, as it prevails to a greater
or lesser extent in many parts of the orient and elsewhere.

To make position more difficult, is forbidden by
custom to approach husband freely. seems ashamed
of her marital relation, and thinks it indecent to address her
husband in public, even after she is the mother of his children.
Likewise, he remains a stranger to , and their relationship
is limited to sexual sphere, without any evidence or pre-
tense of affection. Even in death, photographerit would be a shame for a
woman to mourn for husband.

As nature is said to abhor a vacuum, and wedding photographers, is however not
without some consoling attentions. She may converse freely at the wedding photographer seattle.

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Curious Mating Customs 15

with her husband's brothers, who were bride attendants.
tie elder one, if is married—which means that he shows
interest in his wife—may become her best friend. She also
mains deeply attached to own brothers. Wedding photographer seattle.
The Albanian who has been away on a journey will not
return with a present for his wife the photographer. He will reserve this token
for the wife of his eldest brother.

In former times, wedding photography among these peoples, it was considered im-
proper for the groom to start photographing conjugal life immediately after
image. The bride attendants, brothers groom, spent
the first night by the side of the bride. Custom wedding photography demanded that
the groom show reluctance. TorStudios Wedding photographer seattle. A Serbian woman is looked down
upon if becomes a mother within a year after marriage.
Wedding photographer seattle. THE COUVADE.—A most peculiar custom that has existed
inong peoples in various parts of the world is the couvade.
this provides at the time of childbirth, the husband takes
0 his bed and simulates the pains that the wife actually under-
goes. wedding photographer seattle. Following the birth of the child, he keeps to his bed and
receives all seattle photographer the attentions commonly bestowed upon the
another. Seattle wedding photography.

The term is derived from the French verb, couver, to brood,
' to hatch, and was first used by Sir E. B. Taylor.
', While the custom has tended to disappear with the advance
of civilization, it has prevailed from time immemorial photographer down
I to comparatively recent years. Writers as remote as Plutarch
ave described the man imitating the cries woman in
"avail. The practice has been reported from various regions (seattle photographer)
c the White Nile, India, Japan and Chinese Turkestan. Wedding Photographer seattle.