American Couple React "BALKAN WEDDINGS WERE DIFFERENT" | The Demouchets REACT

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[@AnganamTubela]

Lots of love guys please react to South African music if you have or had in any of your channel please tell me love you guys from 🇿🇦

[@bukamila]

same in Czech

[@nmty4811]

It's very accurate but in Romania we also steal the bride at the wedding

[@helgaioannidis9365]

We also do that in Bavaria. It's expensive to get her back 😂

[@razvandumitru9505]

@@helgaioannidis9365 It's expensiv in România to😅

[@green861ddd9]

well Romania is not part of the Balkans (geographically)

[@Carrie-so3ro]

@@green861ddd9 I wouldn't think that Hungary was either & yet that was not the impression of the person doing this video.

[@CeleAdi_11]

​@green861ddd9 bruh💀🇹🇩

[@espadaboi6384]

I remember as a kid, I was there, I was playing with all of the other kids running around. And when it hit like 3 or 4 am we would be sleeping on the chairs or tables. Fun times.

[@ErdaKrasniqi-w8t]

Balkan weddings are just more fun

[@dizajnmir7303]

yes i know that it is so good

[@dessyvalcheva]

In my culture - I am from Bulgaria, Kum and Kuma or Godmother and Godfather - most often are married couple. When a child is born, they are the people who baptize it. That's why they are chosen very carefully, because of the responsibility they bear to the young family. Also yes - Balkan weddings last all day, or days, from morning until late at night. And - yes, guests often start drinking in the morning. My wedding was relatively small - about 80 people, we started at lunch and ate, drank and danced until 3 or 4 in the morning.

[@FilipPetrovic999]

In Serbia, there are 2 types of Kum and Kuma. 1st one is like best man and maid of honor, most commonly best friends of the bride and groom. 2nd type of Kum and Kuma are also ones that baptize children (Godmother and Godfather). They can be the same people as those who were at the wedding (maid of honor and best man) but also can be completely different people.

[@lastbard]

When he said: "Everyone ends up drunk", he means everyone older than 13-14. Also if the wedding is in Crete Greece, it is not unusual someone to get killed from the drunk gunshots. (like a Dothraki wedding)

[@elinotnormal]

lmao the 14yo's also blackout 😭😭

[@evasmiljanic3529]

@@elinotnormal in the balkas you have sworn off alcohol by the time youre 18 cuz your liver is failing

[@elinotnormal]

@@evasmiljanic3529 hahaha accurate!

[@varsam]

@@evasmiljanic3529 If that liver can talk ... what stories of horror he will tell ...

[@dsosrc3105]

My grandparents keep telling me to get married while they can still party

[@branislavpetkovic4507]

I was in one wedding in east Serbia and was three days

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

omg what did y'all do for 3 days?

[@branislavpetkovic4507]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT Eating and drinking and a lost of waking across village and nature

[@nenadjovanovic329]

Yeap, those are the wildest of them all. The best man there even has their own waiter that literally follows him wherever he goes, and even while he's dancing, just in case he needs another refill. 😂 Those poor waiters sleep when the best men sleep, but somewhere nearby, in a van or so. In Southern Serbia the tradition is for bride's brother (or close cousin) to negotiate with best man the sale of the bride to the groom. Then there's a shooting contest, for the groom to prove his worth by shooting an apple hanging from a long pole with a rifle. There's a bunch of these local traditions that are still being honored in some rural areas, but some (like selling a bride) even in urban surroundings. It's mostly just for fun and laughs.

[@holyrs1575]

Yeah Albanian wedding usually last a week

[@qanon7289]

@@TheDemouchetsREACT Making fun 😂

[@vodormesz4344]

Im Hungarian! I was only in one hungarian wedding.The groom's coworker was so drank... he fell when he was dancing w/ the bride and they fell on the band's drumset.

[@mixalarhs]

im also balkan and this is pretty tame, our traditional weddings last 3 days!

[@nadamrkalj3824]

Yes i was about to say that. We always come back for the "afterparty" which is a celebration that continues for a few days. These days people hire a hall for the after party, but some people still like to bring guests to their families home and continue 2 celebrate. More food, more drinking and alot of times ppl always get emotional, especially the brides family as she is no longer "theirs".

[@MajaZaguan]

Sarma is a must, it comes between soup and meat!

[@Anduci78]

He did not mention the "menyasszony tánc" (dance with the bride) which is usually around midnight, where the guests can have a few round with her on the dancefloor of course for a price, - the last one usually steel the beide - also the "bolond menyasszony" (clown bride) one of the grooms friend dress up like a bride. Usually after the bride was kidnapped - so she can change into her red dress (symbol of being a wife not a bride). And of course to get his wife bach the groom has to proove himself. 😂 All those in Hungarian weddings.

[@vivianneolah]

Hungarian here! another common wedding tradition we have is when the clock strikes midnight, the bride changes into a shorter red dress (often with traditional hungarian elements), and the guests can give money into a hat to dance with her. it’s usually announced by the vőfély yelling “ELADÓ A MENYASSZONY!! (the bride is for sale!)” and the first ones to dance with her are the father and then other family members (and in true balkan fashion, they dance to gypsy music). On most weddings there’s also another special cake called “Grillázs torta” which is made with hardened caramel, for the bride or the groom to break with a wooden meat tenderiser. You can only slam it once and the broken pieces symbolise how many years of happy marriage the couple will have! These two are my absolute favourite parts of a wedding! (and yes, we drink all day) 😁😁

[@kinglizard3406]

sry but what gipsy music..

[@vivianneolah]

@@kinglizard3406 what do you mean?

[@kinglizard3406]

@@vivianneolah sry was reading something wrong..

[@kinglizard3406]

@@vivianneolah By reading this, Hungarian weddings in Slavonia (Croatia) are similar , with touch of Slavonian music and traditions :)

[@vivianneolah]

@@kinglizard3406 yeah well, we are neighbours after all :D

[@mubina6944]

9:06 Also forgot to respond in the previous comment. It's not that we don't care about anything. It's just that we wanna make this miserable existence more bearable hahah. Ya know, we try not to take everything as serious because it shouldn't be, not everything's that deep.

[@teauran6618]

I am from Slovenia and I can tell this is very true. Once I was at a wedding that started Friday afternoon and ended Sunday afternoon. In Slovenia we also have something called šranga, which is a roadblock with the intention of the groom paying the village boys a bride price, meaning the groom needs to play different games to prove that he is worth of marrying the bride. Games can be very different like from chaining a diaper to sawing some wood. This šranga happens on the way from brides home to the church usually.

[@ErdaKrasniqi-w8t]

The gun bit is especially true. I got so scared when i first heard it bc i was like 7 years old. Good times.

[@ErdaKrasniqi-w8t]

This is sooo accurate. at my cousins wedding, he got whooped by the belt by his brother, because, ✨tRaDiTiOn✨. The bride started crying out of happiness.

[@cetterus]

Yeah I never understood where this one comes from. I understand buying the bride, asking for blessing, sealing the deal with rakija, trying to switch the bride- these could have made sense in old days of poverty. But belt whooping and sitting in bride's lap eludes me with its symbolism.

[@HtothePmane]

I I was the kum at my brother’s wedding and I was drunk during the whole day,after the mandatory speech I gave,I was blackout drunk after 30 minutes and don’t remember half of the wedding 😂😂

[@clarakam3858]

Yes on my weeding i was up untill 05 in the morning untill the next day . We party all day & night , all night untill the morning , i kissed sooo manny ppl , my husband said :" i kissed soo much ppl i don' t feel my lips 😂😂😂" & we dance so much , i don' t remember if i had time to eat something & they stole me, and ask my husband to pay if he wanted me back 😂😂😂😂. I dance so much i had muscles fever in the morning 😂😂😂. And so manny traditions : mirror, dance off the bride, blessings from my godmother , a dance ( hora ) where our parents had to pay , buchets on the water, bread brake in your head etc traditions , dance, food , church etc so manny 😂❤ love from Romania ❤

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

Sounds like a good time! Much love!

[@bane781]

In Serbia, and in fact in the entire Balkans, people are very responsible and never drink while driving to and from the wedding 😅

[@Arsenov92]

You guys are right, we don't care much about anything and just wanna party. He did however forgot to mention that in 90% of weddings there usually are 2 of your older cousins who start fighting for reasons their grandparents fought 70 years ago and it was completely forgotten why.

[@garybacica5709]

This is for real. In the 1960's My dad who was from "Yugoslavia" married my Canadian mother in NYC and Dad's Kume ( pronounced koo-may) was always dad's best man for life.

[@StergiosMekras]

Greek here. Aside from a few cosmetic differences here and there, this checks out...

[@nononobutyeah]

I'm hyped Kume!

[@Jeckacat]

As a Serbian woman who has been around more than 20 weddings ....yeah I could confirm most of these things happen. My wedding was thank God smaller and only for one whole day but it all went through a blur, of events and a lot of food. Got my friends from foreign countries drunk tho, great times :D

[@sunnysunny9966]

it's almost the same in Poland, eccept we party 3 days hardcore 😂🎉🍾🥂there is a preparty, the wedding and a afterparty🎉🥳 and alot of vodka!!! My hubby is from turkiye and he is always very amazed😅✌🏼

[@wrath345]

i mean the bride usually starts the day at 3-4 AM :)) with the make-up and the hair stylist appointments. for her and the braidsmaids, at least in romania

[@vladimircurkoski1455]

So many blured memories from weddings 😂😂

[@Maladana133]

This is slightly exaggerated, a bit caricature of a wedding presentation... But accurate in a way 😂🎉❤

[@evasmiljanic3529]

Some balkan people have small weddings, but in manz places its still a whole day affair that the entire village is invited to

[@mubina6944]

Bosnian here, yes, weddings are wild. Not always though, however there's a thing we have here which would kinda translate to elope-BUT it's not the same. That is when the family doesn't approve of the wedding so the couple runs away and it usually ends up happily. You also had cases where it is approved but the bride just married on a whim and didn't come home. My mom did that, she dated my dad and while they were together 1 day dad just said let's go get married. I'm sure as can be, there's no other yadda yadda. And mom agreed and went with him. She just called grandma later and said, hey, I got married and I'll stay with him. Ges, grandma was angry.

[@sfinxul77]

us romanians have something similar to a vofely called a staroste who is like the manager n organizer of the wedding, but they’re not as common anymore

[@sfinxul77]

also here the kum/the best man gets the groom from his house (all while drinking) then gets to the wife; there’s also the whole stealing of the wife during the wedding ordeal lol

[@Sokilo-123]

In my godfather's wedding i was drunk from the first hour.. after that i was dancing Greek traditional dances for 5 hours straight until my feet stoped working ... Thats the time where you have to rizz up the beautiful (or not) single women... The rizz had some success.. after all that I got to the car, passed out sleeping until the wedding is over and that's the latest experience i had as an adult 😂🎉 Now as a kid i was sleeping on two chairs for half of the wedding 😂

[@yustmark4355]

I went to both Hungarian,Serb and Croat wedding shit hits hard and everyone drunk from start to end

[@Mr-__-Sy]

OK but he forgot to mention the after party that's supposed to wake everyone up but ends up getting them even more drunk

[@pola6794]

I'm from Poland, and we have more similarities than I realized. We also throw coins, but can also throw rice but rice is bad for the birds that would wind up eating it, so some people throw birdseed. We have our own genre of terrible party music - Disco Polo which is awful unless you're like seven shots of wódka in, then it's the best party music. Some people also have two day weddings - the actual wedding and the next day we have poprawiny or "corrections/doovers" which is just more of the same - a dinner followed by booze and dancing and ended with more food and booze and dancing. There is always an uncle that's red faced drunk and stripping off his shirt and the kids are sleeping on the chairs covered by their dad's jacket by 10PM. On my uncle's wedding, I was at the awkward age of 14 which forced me to sit with the other kids, but I still had a vodka glass by my plate. I also had to watch all of them, because the parents were too busy getting drunk and dancing. The teenagers are always the free babysitting.

[@BattlekonMike]

If you ever have the opportunity to go to a Balkan wedding, you should really go.

[@KIKIC666]

We had 250 guests and by the end of the day I could not walk

[@anastasija6866]

Sometimes if the dad of the bride or groom is happy he'd play the radio on full blast for an entire week up to the wedding or just shoot guns every night, I've been to a wedding where people got so drunk and had so much fun they almost forgot to go to the church, the entire wedding party and guests were all late to the church the priest just said better late then never. If you arent at least tipsy and half deaf were you even at a wedding

[@cetterus]

There are procession (you would call it maybe "parade" in America) traditions all over the place- they mostly originate from RESPECT believe it or not. In the old days the groom had to show courtesy and politely ask his future father in law for bride's hand and blessing: that is what all of these have in common. This is the point where gang comes to brides home. That small ritual became basis for myriad of weird, not so widespread customs- like buying the bride, haggling, trying to switch the bride covered with veil, asking for a bride or groom to prove themselves in terms of wealth or physical ability (throwing the apple over house where I come from) or shooting stuff in Serbia. Most often these customs are kept to entertain the party. If money or physical ability would really be at stake- most of the people here would consider it primitive. It is really entertaining to observe these little rituals while understanding where they come from. Having in mind they die out rapidly.

[@vtheman1850]

This video is odd. "Kum" is just "The best man" and Kuma is just "The maid of honor". What he is describing here is essentially an old traditional wedding. "Haggling" isn't actually a haggle, it is a customary remnant from back when you used to offer the bride's family a dowry in old Europe. These days it is mostly symbolic, agreed upon in advance and it is considered unbelievably rude and disrespectful to make a haggling game out of it. You do not "Shoot in the air to celebrate", the brides family will usually perch an apple upon a tall pole, either the husband or the best man(most often) will fire at the apple, as again a symbolic gesture and proof that he is able to protect the bride. (SRB/Bosnia/Croatia) During the ceremony their hands are bound together, the bride and groom making a symbolic circle around the inside of the chapel, showing their reliance and trust in one another to help guide them through life. BBQ is almost never served on traditional weddings. It is almost always pork , roast lamb , or oxen if the family is incredibly wealthy. To conclude it, the Groom will carry the bride over the doorstep, as old folk tales held the belief that evil spirits and impurity often hid under it.

[@lupus__1ntus477]

Hi Just to Point out we also have batchelor partys btu we still Start early in the mornign and fight the whole day XD

[@martinawolf9605]

Great reaction❤

[@ivanivanovic5586]

Greetings, I've watched the guy's video before, and enjoyed your reaction to it as well, so I'll just put out my experience with balkan weddings(bosnia herzegovina to be specific). While Janos(the guy behind Living Ironically in Europe) is mostly correct here, he does put a comical spin on it. Sofar I've been to 4 weddings(for 2 cousins' (church ones) and 2 friends' (civil ones)). First off, we do have both bachelorette/bachelor party day(s) before, depends on the couple if they wish to have them. Second, the wedding day does start early morning, and no, best man and groom do not get drunk right away as a rule(majority pace themselves). First order of business is breakfast and drinks at groom's house, coupled with customary song of "today, mother, you marry off your son"(croatian), and the wooden flask of rakija(the dreaded turbofolk only happens at the trashier weddings, thankfully). Then everyone packs up and goes to bride's place for the "selling" and another round of food drink and music, celebratory gun shots happen at either place(pretty much mandatory custom for slavs). That done, it's off to the church/civil ceremony, pictures etc. Then the venue of choice(as Janos described). Now once the civil ceremony is done, it's off to either the venue as described or a big restaurant(booked for the wedding). Friend nr2 had also a biker wedding(since our city hosted a bike fest as same time), they had that, plus the mayor himself was there to personally congratulate the newlyweds. Lastly, while Janos does describe stuff on Balkans almost perfectly, there's a lot of nuance that gets missed, so if needed, I'll be here to clarify a few things in the future. Til next time, take care.

[@cosmicsound2003]

I love this guys videos but he didnt tell you that in Balkanas it depends on the state weddings are different. But yea all we have in comon we love to get drunk before the church:D

[@VoiceOfVoorhees]

Things are pretty tame nowadays, these things used to last for 3 days to a week, now it's just one day and we done

[@notsure2211]

The video does not show the 3 day stuff. Some weddings last from 24h to 3-4 days, especially if the bride is a V before the deed. It is tradition in the Balkans.

[@Mari.K12]

Here in Albania you have one week weeding 😂😂❤

[@Soyinutul]

Yeap I am from bulgaria and got married last year. Pretty much on point except the extra cake part we had a 30kg one that we ate for 1 week after the wedding.

[@Ma.hagsh.karin444]

In albania the wendding goes on for 3 to 4 days

[@Αμαρντα]

Hello people im for the first time earlyyyyy❤

[@mitkodimitrov8396]

Celebrate,mean drink rakiq and play horo,is not so easy,Ajde kume,God make rakia,to cure everithing.Greetings,from Bulgaria hahaha

[@dannyyordanov816]

The best man is is never souber in the weddings

[@shanegooding4839]

Watch the band Gogol Bordello's song American Wedding to get their perspective on the differences.

[@sladjulica2025]

And then we will go home and won't see any on them until next wedding 😂

[@denikehi4579]

He didn't mention the hungarian tradition of bride kidnapping u_u yes i'm not joking

[@dizajnmir7303]

u gotta go to balkan and see it

[@nurgleschosen8145]

Im romanian and at the wedding of my cousin he bribed hes father in law at the entrance of his brides house to let him see his future wife. And during the weeding the bride was kidnapped and they ransomed her to my cousin lmao 😂. By the morning everyone is incredibly shit faced, pardon my language, and it takes two days for everyone to recover.

[@TiaDruzak]

The kom or the best man cannot look drunk in a church

[@nstevan92]

If you spand all money from wedding you can wedd again to get money again working money glitch

[@ParisthemusicalfanXD]

In Bosnia its a lil different! But still fun!!

[@Acako-o2x]

no you are alredy drunk before you come to the weding

[@MokumHVB]

Very fun video and reaction. I really like you react to so many diffrent cultures and subjects. You should react to Moroccan weddings, no alcohol, but much simulour and great to see

[@TheDemouchetsREACT]

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[@nenadmarkovic4160]

This is serbian weding

[@kinglizard3406]

he describe Serbian and Hungary wedings not balkans xD

[@silafuyang8675]

Balkan weddings celebrated for a day? Wrong. Gypsies celebrate for 3 days, usually. And this is 15-20% of the Balkan people.

[@TherealGswitchy]

This true everything about it but that music loud nobody can talk to each other yall gotta go outside for that its just so loud and the kids sleeping man we used to put to chairs together and the best ones were with arm rest yall put those to together ots like a infant bed 😂

[@alenbaco]

bog na nebu kum na zemlji (god in heaven and godfather on the ground ) if the godfather in not drunk more then all of the guests.. then he is a bad godfather. thru the day we try to steal the bride and groom has to get her back with money and when he doesn't have more money he can put hes clothes so often times he is without shoes or jacket the bachelorette party is held one week before the wedding. but the whole weak is the party going.. like decorating the wedding hall,the church.the house.. you have to get the groom and the bride from their house. the house and entrance has to be decorated. so your friends help out with that.. so the party is the whole weak and and there's a after party to come to eat the rest of the food and drink the rest od the booze the next day. its a big tradition for this and marriage is seen more permanent not like in the USA.

[@epic-memes812]

pls react to balkan games were diffrent by Living Ironacally in europe

[@gauldothjr]

hell priest preach on funerals in croatia.....

[@aleynamorca1365]

That looks like a Turkish wedding

[@HungarianKnight97]

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[@Janko881]

Hungary is not part of the Balkan.

[@Akiaki1234cf]

it's a bit excessive

[@valley6824]

What pisses me off in almost every videp that talks about the Balkans is that they always explain the things in the slavic point of view. I get it. The Balkan region majority of population is made of slavic people but they are not the only ones that live here. Nor is their tradition or culture older or better.

[@bosnjoxd7392]

wery acurate im from bosnia but only difrent is that we getting maried in mosque

[@alex.profi27]

@@bosnjoxd7392 only the muslims. The catholics and the orthodox marry in the church