When a man and a woman decide to spend their lives together they unite in the holy sacrament of matrimony, that being said marriages are weird and involve myriad of strange and bizarre (relatively) traditions, we have compiled a short list of weird wedding traditions from all around the world for you to savour.

1. In Germany, the groom’s friends literally steal the bride and whisk her off to a bar where they get totally sloshed, the groom has to find the bride and also pay the entire bill.

2. In an Italian reception a glass is broken to aid the prosperity of the newly married couple, more the number of pieces the glass smashes in, more the number of happy years the couple will have.