Breaking traditions (Wedding)

“Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing” says Jose Bergamine; a Spanish writer. One of the world’s social problems is getting along with certain tradition that some nations imply in their way of living. This traditions are sometimes complicated and complex that the present generation find it difficult to follow. The youth are now liberated and very curios to explore the things that their tradition had prevented them to do in the past. Once there was a wedding in the province that was postponed because the priest disliked the idea of the groom to make the color of the wedding venue to be black. From wedding dress to the dress of the groom’s men suite everything should be in pitch black. The priest’s reason for his disapproval is that according to church tradition the theme color of the wedding should be white to represent purity and cleanliness of the soul. We want to talk about the traditions that prevents us to do unique things (in this case, a wedding)

There are two traditions that affect a wedding ceremony:

1. Church traditions

2. Native traditions

These two traditions have different basis that it imply in the actual wedding. First let us concentrate on the Church traditions.

The Catholic Church is known to be a conservative religion (even though its members are not that conservative). The Church considers the wedding as one of the most holy sacraments that a catholic should understand. It is called The Sacrament of holy matrimony. Every Catholic should follow a mutual rule that a wedding should not be declared as null or void because the church tells us that a wedding is a promise between the person to be married and God. The theme of the wedding should be pure and solemn because weddings are often done inside a church. The colors of a wedding should not be dark and gothic because these colors represent Hell or the abyss. And the most important tradition in a catholic wedding is that the persons involve in this ceremony is a man and woman. If these Church Traditions are broken or abused, the church shall not recognize it.

Let us now put our discussion on Native traditions. Our Country was influenced by different countries in performing wedding ceremonies. Let us enumerate some of these traditions:

1. Throwing of uncooked rice after leaving the venue of the wedding(Indian)
2. The groom’s parents and the bride’s parents plans the wedding in the bride’s house or “Pamanhikan”(Spanish)
3. An extravagant feast for the guest and entourage after the wedding(Chinese)
4. Giving respect to the parents by the groom and the bride at the altar(Chinese)
5. Throwing of a bouquet of flowers to the awaiting single bride’s maid believing that if anyone woman who got the flowers will be the next bride(Americans)
6. Offering eggs to Saint Clair before a wedding for good weather.(Spanish)

On the case of the wedding in our introduction, the groom broke a church tradition, that’s why the priest disapproved. The quotation in our introduction tells us that we should continue traditions that are beneficial and we should irrelevant traditions. With this we conclude that traditions are things that we should decide to imply or not. Humans created these traditions and also humans can deny it. It is up to us if these traditions are beneficial or not; If these traditions are good or bad. We should know the pros and cons when it comes to tradition because it is not a good source of wisdom. Some traditions are very complicated and be weird to the sight to our neighboring countries. But again It’s up to US.