From spitting on the bride to marrying a tree: Infographic 明らかにする／漏らすs the world's weirdest wedding practices past and 現在の

• An interactive collection of wedding traditions from around the world 最高潮の場面s some very strange practices from the past and the 現在の
• Rituals 含む organised weeping, 軍隊-feeding and 交渉するing the price of a bride in pigs in Papua New Guinea
• The infographic also has a serious 味方する in 最高潮の場面ing the number of child marriages that take place in some parts of the world

By Sarah Griffiths

Published: 12:34 BST, 8 April 2014 | Updated: 15:19 BST, 8 April 2014

Tickling, over-eating and drinking wedding leftovers from a 議会 マリファナ are all marriage-関係のある rituals that make the tradition of saving tier of wedding cake seem 完全に mundane.

An interactive collection of wedding traditions from around the world 最高潮の場面s some very strange practices from the past and the 現在の - 含むing organised weeping before the big day in 中国, to 交渉するing the price of a bride in pigs in Papua New Guinea.

However, the infographic also serves to 最高潮の場面 the cost of a 儀式 and the 苦境 of child brides around the world.

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You may now spit at the bride: An interactive collection of wedding traditions from around the world 最高潮の場面s some very strange practices from the past and the 現在の, 含むing organised weeping before the big day in 中国 and spitting at the bride, to 交渉するing the price of a bride in pigs in Papua New Guinea

In Chinese Inner Mongolia, the bride and groom in the Daur community have to kill a baby chick together ーするために 始める，決める a date for their wedding.

There is one 平行の with the cutting of the cake in Western wedding 儀式s as the couple have to kill the animal with the same knife ? しっかり掴むing it together.

They then 検査／視察する the innards of the chick until they 位置を示す the 肝臓 and if it is in good 条件, they can start organising their nuptials.

While many Western brides try to shed a few 続けざまに猛撃するs before their big day, the opposite is true in Mauritania, where obesity is 伝統的に regarded as 望ましい.

Girls as young as five are ‘軍隊-fed’ a diet of rich, fatty foods and older women 軍隊 brides-to-be to 消費する enormous 量s ーするために make them as attractive as possible to 可能性のある suitors.

Click on different images in this interactive graphic to learn more about rituals from different parts of the world

The practice of 軍隊 feeding or ‘Leblouh’ dates from the 11th century when 存在 overweight was a 調印する of wealth and is still 関連した today, によれば the PurelyDiamonds.co.uk, the British company that produced the infographic.

The father of the bride spits on the breasts and 直面する of his daughter for luck before she is 結婚する in Kenya and members of the Tidong tribe in the city of Sandakan in Sabah, Malaysia are forbidden to go to the 洗面所 for three days before the wedding because they believe that the ritual brings the couple luck and will 妨げる infidelity and the death of their children.

While most weddings are happy occasions, the Tujia people in Sichuan, 中国 cry in 前進する of a wedding.

The bride cries for an hour a day one whole month before she is 予定 to 結婚する and is later joined by her mother and grandmother in her weeping. The tradition is said to 茎・取り除く from the time when a mother of a Chinese princess sobbed profusely at her daughter’s wedding.

Pucker up: The infographic 最高潮の場面s unusual traditions such as Sweden's kissing frenzy (illustrated) 同様に as more serious 問題／発行するs such as the 苦境 of child brides in いっそう少なく developed parts of the world

The big day can also 含む strange traditions. In India at a 確かな astrological time, ‘maglik’ women have to marry a 白人指導者べったりの東洋人 or peepal tree, or an idol of the Hindu god Visnu in a 儀式 known as ‘kumbh vivah’.

Once the 儀式 has taken place, the tree is destroyed and the 儀式 is ーするつもりであるd to break any 可能性のある 悪口を言う／悪態 over the bride and groom.

Centuries ago in フラン, a married couple were sent to bed while the bridal party cleaned up the mess from a raucous 歓迎会 and collected all the leftover food and drink in a 議会 マリファナ ? which the happy couple were 軍隊d to drink together.

It was meant to give them strength and vitality for their wedding night and while the ritual no longer 存在するs, いつかs chocolate and シャンペン酒 is served out of a 大型船 that looks like a 議会 マリファナ.

同様に as unusual marriage 準備s, the big day can also 含む strange traditions. In India at a 確かな astrological time, 'maglik' women have to marry a 白人指導者べったりの東洋人 or peepal tree, or an idol of the Hindu god Visnu in a 儀式 known as 'kumbh vivah'

Before couples can tie the knot, men have to get their girl. In Niger, if a young man is 利益／興味d in a girl, he will こそこそ動く up to the home which she 株 with her parents and tickle her ear.

Later, a goat is sacrificed at the wedding, which takes place during a 十分な moon, and afterwards, a camel is made to dance for guests to 派手に宣伝する （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域s at a 歓迎会.

People in remote parts of Papua New Guinea have to 交渉する the price of a bride with her parents, which is 手段d in pigs and 爆撃するs. ‘Low 質’ brides fetch just one or two pigs, while beauties can be 価値（がある） more than 30. These pigs are often eaten as part of a wedding feast.

A fishy tradition: From 交渉するing the price of a bride in pigs to crying for days on end, there are many traditions in 準備 for the big day but after the main event, some people in Korea （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the 単独のs of the groom's feet with fish to make him stronger for life ahead with his wife

にもかかわらず the 合法的な age of 同意 存在 21, Papua New Guinea has the 5th highest 率 of child marriages in the world.

The infographic 含むs serious （警察などへの）密告，告訴（状）, such as that one in seven girls is married off before they reach their 15th birthday.

In Malaysia, 16,000 girls are married before the age of 15 and in Niger, over one third are married by the same age.

The infographic also 会談 about countries where polygamist marriages are 合法的な and 輪郭（を描く）s the 普通の／平均（する） cost of weddings in different countries.