Balkan Weddings Were Different

[@thepsychlops6359]

My dad is American and married a Romanian woman. His side of the family went over for the wedding, needless to say, we were not prepared for the sheer amount of celebration. One of the best parties I've ever been to.

[@MirelBalteanu-q7o]

Poți să vorbești românește

[@thepsychlops6359]

@@MirelBalteanu-q7o only greetings, thanks, drinking words and some impolite things, but even that has long faded.

[@sawah765]

my dad married a romanian immigrant here(not my mom), traveled to meet her family and got to wrestle a hog with another man of the family as they waited for it to bleed out. He said the pig screeching was so human that he understands why muslims don't eat pigs.

[@dannyboy-vtc5741]

@sawah, nah i know how pigs sqeuak when slaughtered, my gramps kept pigs, i remember as a kid, no people dying don't make such a noise, at all, i've seen it plenty during the war, some scream or cry, but not like that, and most people understand it's the end and keep quiet due to that, or due to shock, but pigs don't know that, and they scream, squeek really loud until they bleed out. Thats why we say squeek like a pig, not squeek like a man, but nothing human in it, pigs vocal chords don't make human noises at all, just loud screaming noises, but i've heard at least 10-15 poeple scream while dying, nothing like a pig and not nearly as loud.

[@vellgrynd]

I can't believe you didn't mention the nice tradition of stealing the bride and having to buy her back.

[@SzotyMAG]

these days they skip the stealing part and just get to the buying

[@namikazeshizue]

​@@SzotyMAGfr😂

[@SarielSol]

@@SzotyMAGin romania the bride is stolen during the ceremony and the godfather or groom pays to bring her back. Usually the bride is happy to take a break from the wedding and they go to a nearby pub to wait for the ransom

[@andreeas.2362]

@@SarielSoleven in Austria is the custom. Balkans starts from Viena to south east

[@juuchanIRL]

my bridesmaid took me to a bar and they made me dance on the tables >.>

[@genzo53]

"A Balkan wedding without at least three deaths is considered a dull affair."

[@andreicomsa2974]

Based comment

[@channelUCL4sofVOe]

3 deaths, 9 injuries and 5 missing persons

[@Real_LadaRiva]

fun fact 3 people died in the soviet czechoslovakia invasion in 1968

[@makjern]

​@@channelUCL4sofVOe Usually someones uncle, then 3 days later just showes up at home dodging any questions about where he was 😂

[@Real_LadaRiva]

​@@makjernHe defied laws of physics

[@prettypuff1]

Serbian wedding was the first time got drunk in a church with a priest.

[@Hajde_budalla]

“the first time” 😳🫥

[@SarielSol]

@@Hajde_budallathe first for me is was the groom. All i could think was that i need to pee. Not very romantic but i managed

[@Hajde_budalla]

@@SarielSol Oh ok;p, you were an adult. The first time I got drunk at a wedding was when I was 12, but not with a priest.

[@cerebrummaximus3762]

That's just sad.

[@cloudiixu]

@@Hajde_budallanot really something to flex about! but ok

[@Creepex]

I live in a smaller town in Romania (Caransebes) and weddings are EXACTLY how you described it. Restaurant fancy as hell in an either run down neighborhood or an abandoned industry zone. I love the balkans

[@leserb9228]

Is it the same Caransebes where the Austro-Hungarian armies got so drunk, they started fighting each other, believing that the "Other" side was the Ottomans? If yes, than GG bro

[@Edwardloveszipper]

I live in a small country also It’s In the Middle East

[@dragos05_]

I think weddings are all the same here in Romania, might depend still a bit of the region but at the base it's the same.

[@The_British_Director]

Ikr everything is so similar

[@johnnygoldstein3083]

Yeah, it's the same place :D I'm also from that region originally

[@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5]

Judging by Ukrainian weddings Ukraine IS Balkans too. Traditional wedding requires at least 3 day of drinking

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

Yet India and Nigeria put them all to shame.

[@lukalalosevic200]

@@pablodelsegundo9502 i mean yeah ...people here really do their best not to poop in a river next to a wedding ... or cut wedding cakes with their feet

[@Sashalexandros]

U sure they are ukrainian? There are many romanians and hungarians, after 1940 occupation, they still have balkan tradition.

[@george-s8m2i]

Ukraine is not located on the Balkan peninsula.

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

​@@george-s8m2ineither is hungary but they share balkanisc behaviors

[@PotatoTroll]

You forgot to mention the second part, at least in Romania/Moldova, after heavy drinking at night all the guest are invited the next day to eat some soup to help with their hangover... and probably drink some more.

[@namikazeshizue]

The zeama from the day after the wedding was always one of the best I ever ate

[@99ilmar]

It's the same in Serbia, the day after is reserved for after party

[@Pollicina_db]

Same in croatia

[@feswsfersdfsdfes7397]

Same in Poland

[@CapitanDePlai]

Yea in Moldova we usually make soup with catfish or even better crayfish.

[@omgopet]

In Croatia, the main person of the wedding is the flag bearer (barjaktar). He is tasked with waving the flag while hanging out of the car when they drive to the church ( 1:21 ), carrying the wooden flask around and getting very drunk. The last part is most important. The flag bearer must be the most drunk person at the wedding. If anyone spots a person they suspect is more drunk than the flag bearer, they are obligated to immediately bring the flag bearer a drink. Additionally, is someone manages to steal the flag and hide it, the flag bearer needs to drink until the thief is satisfied in order to learn where the flag is hidden.

[@lifelessuser99]

my liver hurt while reading this

[@Stalkerfan498]

Salute to all the brave barjaktars that needed a liver transplant the next day

[@Dusan_animates]

Jekvica ekavica

[@prettypuff1]

send me an invite to the next wedding

[@nicolavershi6913]

Same in north Albania ,wedding use to be 3 days

[@JoCaTen]

they really are, lots of family, lots of alcohol, lots of everything. things could get chaotic sometimes

[@davinnicode]

How is the brawl ratio? I know a couple of stories concerning Russian weddings and let me say it some fists become loose when the night turns.

[@ciprianpopa1503]

What do you mean sometimes,?

[@JoCaTen]

@@ciprianpopa1503 depends on the country

[@xiaopingzdrang834]

In Maramureș, Romania, the groom, the bride, the brothers, sisters, and parents try not to drink much on the night party, to keep some peace, they drink at second day after party , but still some fight happen 😂

[@dzonikg]

Serbian weeding would not be complete with out going to bathroom and see people taking cocain and returning to weeding

[@TwoheadedEagle]

A Balkan wedding without 4 days of partying , drinking, balkan classic music , uncle with a shotgun and throwing 500 euro on the ground isnt a real Balkan wedding

[@thetourturedwritersclub]

Real. Like we do weddings like no one else

[@sstoi]

In Romania a wedding is literally a black market loan / trust fund

[@vitregqq6942]

i would say thats the original GoFundMe, pre internet era, then came the cheap knockoff american version

[@juuchanIRL]

it cost me a couple of salaries and i only did the bare minimum -_-

[@DarkSignal59]

You get what you spend back from the guests' gift money and extra.

[@bogdanbotis1524]

Haha, so true..... Old school parents keep extensive records of what weddings they attend and what sum was was given as the 'gift', then expect the guests to their own children's weddings to at least reciprocate. Any imbalance in this system leads to weird game of thrones type drama which is funny to observe if it doesn't involve you directly.... :))

[@vajidali2658]

​@bogdanbotis1524 thats exactly what pakistanis do. And god forbid u dont invite a particular person because thats a blood feud right there😂

[@maddjole]

When I tell my colleagues in Germany that in my part of Serbia, 150-200 guests is considered a small wedding, they are amazed and don't believe it 😂

[@davinnicode]

I mean German weddings are as stereotypical as it gets. The Balkan weddings look way more fun.

[@cyberking158]

Stop lying they are not surprised they are used to Turkish and Balkan weddings at this point 😒

[@KillahEU]

That's what I was thinking when he said 100-200 and maybe 300+ ; 150-200 guests is considered small or regular, been to weddings that had 500++ guests

[@Archer89201]

Those are rookie numbers

[@Vanitasmylove]

Lmao. Southeast Asian here. We had 3000 guests for my sister's wedding.

[@PASTRAMIKick]

the more I know about balkan cultures the more I'm convinced that Mexico is actually balkan.

[@pennsy6755]

The cartel is just a psyop for ultra nationalists

[@juannaym8488]

It's like, you go south, and people just start behaving a certain way

[@IvanMihajlovic-y4h]

Well that could be somewhat compared if you understand it more easily that way. Love from Serbia! 🇷🇸💪

[@gunnasintern]

the music at 7:00 reminds me of some fast paced music i’ve heard in Caribbean and Central/South American parties. makes sense when you really think about it, the Balkans is part of Southern Europe and Southern European culture basically has been exporting itself to Latin America for centuries at this point

[@elseggs6504]

​@@juannaym8488 Outgoing, less strict behaviour, families bigger than the "nuclear" one you see in every american show?

[@MrHorse-by3mp]

This actually looks fun. In America a wedding is basically as exciting as a PowerPoint presentation.

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

This is the most obnoxious thing ever, these weddings are more like a party than a ceremony

[@Hajde_budalla]

Where are you from? Albanian wedding used to be 3 days to a week long, with the whole village involved. A time to enjoy life & give some charity. Because the point of getting married, is to be a part of a community. Marriage & kids are the bedrock of a community, a culture, a society & survival. Only a complete narcissist does not understand this.

[@cbv7207]

It seems fun from an outsiders perspective but in reality these weddings inevitably get old and boring just like yours, not to mention how disgusting and exhausting most of them are

[@Hajde_budalla]

Clearly the OP is protestant or something. Even in the US, Italian, Greek & Albanian weddings are fun, without being trashy or getting drunk to the point of blindness.

[@flavius5722]

​@JR-gp2zkFor a non america , what is PA ?

[@tanulommagam]

It's an honor to be part of this fun video which represents the balkan culture with almost scientific accuration. :D Also you have my respect as a fellow content creator because this video contained more footage than an average hungarian influencer is using in a year and this is an insane amount of work. It was great! Keep up the good work!

[@MrZiva82]

the editing was insane

[@ipostaze2]

I'm not in the mood to read 234 other comments, but it should be added that in Romania there are 3 other customs worth mentioning: - the groom's unmarried friends try to steal the bride after midnight. If they succeed, they take her to another joint, nowadays most likely a house music club, to wash down the manele music from their bleeding ears, and try to negotiate a lot of alcohol with the groom to bring her back. [In case the bride gets stolen before midnight, the godfather must pay the booze] - before goint home wasted, a super sour pork soup is served to the drunks still standing - ciorba de potroace, which is actually awesome. - and, the crown of every marriage: the GIFT - darul. Which is by custom announced by the gypsy singer, who kindly exaggerates the sum of money, while he passes around the tables, so every other wedding participant feels obliged to give more than they planned. Forr better or worse, these gifts should make for the whole party expense and hopefully allow the newlyweds go on a weekend vacation, to sleep after the whole fking ordeal. As the Romanians say: Casa de piatra (stone house!), cause everybody else probably lived in caves in the old times /s

[@cosmindvd]

I live in a catholic Csango village in western Moldova Romania, and the weddings are crazy here, the amount of alcohol people drink is insane, at my brother’s wedding there were 300 people and a TRUCK of wine, all was consumed, I was 3 days in a row drunk af.

[@Oliver-uv6yt]

His Hungarian is actually getting a lot better, also the videos is so accurate it's like he pulled it straight from my memory

[@balkansportsfanandgamer]

he is a Vojvodina Hungarian tho (he also has the Hungarian passport and the Serbian and the American passport)

[@LarsOfTheMohicans]

@@balkansportsfanandgamer one of the few Hungaroid/Slavic hybrids that I tolerate. May Tengri bless him and may he always have the wind in his hair and falcons at his wrist.🐎

[@lazymoon2392]

It's been 10 years since i played my first wedding. I don't know why i keep coming back to the balkan wedding gigs. Is it the free drinks? The hot sisters of the bride&groom? The wedding dishes? The extra tips they throw while dancing? The bullets fired upon the skies? The waiters trying to rip off the groom by asking for a hefty tip before cutting the fake wedding cake? The best men kissing me with a stinking breath after i play his favourite ballad at the end of the night while the parents of the bride&groom looks at me like they wanna kill me? Really not sure. But if u're balkan, and u feel like u might get married some time, we might run into each other one day.

[@thenighttimevulturesprojec1912]

i am going to call you at my wedding, see you soon my friend!

[@Sireoja]

You forgot to mention the way you wake up the next morning feeling like you've been run over by a truck trying to remember what happened to you before you passed out.

[@crazeelazee7524]

Fun fact: I had my first hangover at a wedding in Crete when I was 11 or 12. Good times :)

[@Hajde_budalla]

Oh sht, me too. But not in Crete.

[@mzk4193]

Me when 8 in Crete as well. They hit like a truck

[@xiaopingzdrang834]

I was comatose at 5 years, because my uncle marriage party and the nany were an 8 years cousin ,drunk too 😅

[@Munchkino]

Let me guess, they gave you Raki ? Also I bet they brought an AK which they shot at the sky with.

[@longiusaescius2537]

@crazeelazee7524 klk Crete fan?

[@PokojniToza1804]

I've been to my high school friends' wedding who is from Veliko Gradište, Serbia. That wedding was under 4 huge tents, around 1000 guests and it lasted for 3 days. Just to get the scale of how much alcohol got destroyed there was a Scania 24 ton bearing refrigerated truck JUST FOR BEER. There were 5 equal trucks present for the manifestation, each loaded with various types of alcohol. The 6th truck was reserved for juice, soda and mineral water. They all left empty.

[@0inzrt]

đe su spavali svi bokte

[@svetoslavatmadzhov1328]

We say " i don't know how much rakia we drank, but 20litres of oil went just for salads"

[@holymusic3108]

What u described is like 90% consistent with polish weddings. We also have a local custom of blocking the route of wedding procession till the newly-weds ransom themselfs with some strong spirit

[@ehhmeh4869]

Yeah, I love them Slavic weddings, it’s cool that despite us being separate countries we still share a lot of traditions.

[@dragana2245]

We have it in some parts of the Balkan, usually in small towns where it is easy to block the road, but nowadays it is less common.

[@NMT_7543]

In Greece when the bride and groom come out of the wedding, everyone starts pelting them with rice for good luck or some shit, but everyone just likes doing it, so after the bride and groom have been ambushed, and everyone heads to the after party, we don't have that weird wedding organizer dude, but everyone is just drunk and doing Greek traditional dances, and the thing with the kids falling asleep at about 3 to 4 AM while the music is blasting is sooooooooo true, when I was at my aunts wedding when I was like 6 at about 3:30 I went to bed on two chairs cause I couldn't physically stay awake, other than the previous things pretty spot on, also in Cretan weddings they shoot even more guns than Serbs😂

[@nicktune1219]

When do people start shattering plates on the floor? Im pretty sure its a greek tradition to buy out all the dishes from ikea and break them all.

[@solidXsnake4life]

​@@nicktune1219 usually during the dancing portion of the party

[@Munchkino]

​@@nicktune1219The plate-shattering happens at the pique of the dancing, when the mood is at the highest and everyone is having good fun.

[@jemand7488]

Same tradition is part of Albanian weddings

[@PedroLima-ku3em]

The rice thing is also a thing here in Portugal. My sister married during COVID, so during the planning, the priest told my sister every guest should have a small bag of rice to throw, instead of the usual big packs that everyone then takes a handful of. However, next to the church there was this supermarket, so me, my cousins and my brother-in-law's brother all went and bought a 1kg bag of rice. Needless to say, it was a rice avalanche, much bigger than a wedding outside of COVID season. There's one of the pictures where you see everyone throwing a small pinch of rice, and then my cousing lunging in with the whole bag

[@Resistance04]

And this is why i unironically love being a balkan

[@Tondy3]

Ah yes, balkans. Literally everyone here plays Brawl Stars

[@Resistance04]

@@Tondy3 True, half of my school is infested with it so i got possesed too

[@GAarcher]

*9:14** is the embodiment of the Voivaginan wannabe magyar....wait why the fuck the subtitles are in Brazilian*

[@mayor_theo]

I honestly think his channel name should have been *Living unironically in Europe*

[@mayor_theo]

​​@@Tondy3same here in romania. Nice to know this is a phenomenon that happens in the whole Balkan region 🤣

[@gabormolnar7390]

Thanks for mentioning the Vőfély and their different roles. Less and less of them seems to be around nowadays, but it always brings me such joy whenever I see that the wedding is organized by one of them.

[@floricel_112]

In Romania, we have this wedding custom where, at some point during the celebration, the bride will be "kidnapped" and the groom will have to pay the kidnapper to get her back

[@SomeFactsYouMightNotKnow]

Every balkan country does that

[@deadpan904]

According to my mother, and her relatives from Lika, my father brought ladders since her room was on second floor to get her without paying the due. Her relatives were so impressed that they didn't wanted the money, and his brother and sister tried to push him of the ladders as a joke

[@mircioiucodrut6151]

I went on a weding were the bride was kidnaped by airsoft players dressed with bulitproof vests and guns hired by the godfather

[@koriolakorni5041]

In Mazovia is the same!

[@Hajde_budalla]

Over a century ago, this type of elopement happened if the parents didnt give approval to the couple who were in love. Happened with one of my relatives, ladder & all. But since it was in Albania, Im sure some men also risked their lives doing this.

[@andypre1667]

I've driven past one in a Bulgarian village. It was about 100 m off the highway. The bass was so strong, it made things inside my car rattle.

[@OneShotProduction976]

I am a hungarian living in romania, im also a weeding videographer. You forgot or didn’t know a tradition at hungarian weddings when the bride after the cake is being sold, which means the “vöfély” holds a pot and the people mostly men are putting money inside so they can dance with the bride. They actually put a lot of money inside, I think they pay the foto film team from that money 😂. Also another tradition at “Székelyeség” the invited people is not entering the venue until the bride and groom arrives.

[@xiaopingzdrang834]

In Maramureș exist this too

[@Lakiguy]

When you say the celebration is in bumfuck nowhere, it really is. I have been to three major wedding in my family and all of them were either in a ghetto, in the outskirts of the city or in a hall in a village in wolffuck nowhere and the longest I stayed at a wedding is at 2 am when I was 11 yrs old

[@mimisor66]

What? 2 am is for old people who need their sleep. Any young people stay till morning, until they sing the Perinița (kissing song, don't ask) signaling it's time to go home.

[@Lakiguy]

@@mimisor66 dude, I was little, back then I would be tired by 11 pm, my grandpa stayed awake until like 3 am

[@namikazeshizue]

Once, when I was almost 9, I stayed until 5 am, AWAKE (idk how I did this)

[@mimisor66]

@@Lakiguy so, now that you are an (young) adult, I presume, you stay until what hours?

[@Lakiguy]

@@mimisor66 12 am to like 1 am (most of the time I wake up at 7 am or 5 am when going to school or uni)

[@leserb9228]

I love weddings here in Serbia. I have fond memories of falling asleep next to the loudspeakers. Such good memories

[@definitelynotvepar6019]

Status of a Balkan family is determined by its weddings and the height of their house. Besides Hungarians, idk wtf is that all about...

[@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave]

Mongols arent the same as europeans afterall

[@Xiaueng]

​@@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave Kurvára nem vagyunk mongolok, bazdmeg

[@definitelynotvepar6019]

@@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave vidi se da imas najvisu kucu u ulici 👑

[@wewenang5167]

@@Samsung-1.9Cu.Ft.Microwave Hungarians aren't Mongols...they are Turkic lol

[@JudgeNicodemus]

I love my Mongolian neighbors. No matter how different their culture is from ours.

[@zolda99]

You forgot to mention the traditonal opening dance which usually consists of the newlyweds swaying back and fort for a bit maybe doing a piruett if they feel confident enough while everyone is recording on their nokia or samsung s4.

[@alepvl8951]

And there is always smoke surrounding the couple

[@dragana2245]

😂

[@PrototypeSourri]

I'm German and attended a Romanian wedding a few years ago. Can confirm. We were camping at a music festival in Hungary beforehand. I got absolutely destroyed at the wedding and at night I had to get up to pee and was walking around our room looking for the exit of the tent. I was so convinced I was in the tent at the festival that I tried to squeeze underneath the tents tarp, just to get out and pee. There I laid, accepting defeat and self urination, but luckily I woke up my wife with my whimpering and she reminded me to just open the door. :D Ran to the bathroom. Best piss I've ever had.

[@CsabiNemeth]

4:00 this is the church, where our wedding was too!!! OMG!!! And the remaining part was also very accurate

[@ianisas]

Forgot that the DJ has to get beaten for forgetting someone's song request

[@stefanvederuscalon67132]

I had 420 people at my wedding. You have no idea the pain of having to personally welcome 420 strangers that never sincronzie to arive at the party location at the same time. But you have to suffer for tradition.

[@CocoHutzpah]

Several videos ago, you talked about dude bros trying to pick up Balkan women. Now that you've explained the Balkan wedding, it all makes perfect sense, now.

[@Hajde_budalla]

Theyre firing their guns because theyre loud, drunk & happy. Albanians carry rifles for other reasons.

[@donkarlos6763]

Here in Germany, more traditional weddings have wedding entertainers, too. They play Schlager (which is like turbofolk in the sense that it's folk music mixed with pop/rock/electro elements) and make you play silly party games. I really hate them with a passion...

[@OmegaHamster]

Well don't worry just go to Balkan or middle eastern weddings and you'll have more fun, there's plenty of them in Germany

[@davinnicode]

Everything is planned through. Only a few guests let loose and really start to party but the whole atmosphere is kind of awkward. And these games man…most of the time they are incredibly boring and drag the whole evening/night to a complete standstill. I don’t know why so many Germans are so eager to perform them at weddings.

[@MrAintGotNoBitches]

​if you're Greek, you could experience both considering that you guys had a sizeable minority. From the middle east.

[@TrickyNekro]

Then you are not drunk enough 😂

[@phobiac281]

Ive been to german wedding this year the proceeded to tell my german friend that their weddings are like our funerals XD... (spoiler we were starving whole day and they served us cold tomato soup in a glass...)

[@mikedomey8441]

As an Albanian I simply cannot imagine a serbo-albanian wedding. It would mark the loudest event ever recorded in this beloved regions of ours.

[@Munchkino]

The Serbian-Albanian rivalry is created so that there may never be such a decibel-heavy, ear-bleeding event as a Serbo-Albanian wedding. It is a law of physics meant to provide stability to the universe.

[@thetourturedwritersclub]

Imagine tho! Like even the Americans are gonna hear it

[@contxt.mp4]

I once went to a wedding (Romania) in the middle of a field and that restaurant was fancier than shit you'd find in Bucharest

[@mr.pearly7478]

I'm currently travelling around the Balkans, and in Sarajevo and Kosovo together I've seen (and very much heard) 5 wedding convoys - many cars honking loudly and blocking up traffic. In Kosovo, people were hanging out of windows and swinging Kosvo and Albanian flags - around, I had no clue it was a wedding at first.

[@Petar.324]

I come from a Serbian family and my brother had a Balkan wedding a week ago and it was one of the best days in my life ❤️

[@feartheninja1]

Just finished with my sister’s wedding as is tradition in our glorious part of RS I wasn’t sober for three days. God bless our great cultures and traditions.

[@reivonchoccoli2796]

Getting married to my Hungarian fiance tomorrow and watching this while assembling the table setting and slightly panicking... Perfect moments do exist.

[@theviolator818]

This actually sounds really fun.

[@zolda99]

Dont forget about counting the money envelopes.

[@rubeniinebur7938]

Bro you just described a very accurate Albanian Wedding. It's amazing how alike we are as balkans

[@rodneydelboy6910]

You forgot about the bathroom being filled with people constantly snorting coke

[@TheUckActor]

That is just a Night club experience in Balkans

[@thelushflame13]

And hitting the vape

[@rodneydelboy6910]

​@@TheUckActor you have to take a piss outside in a wedding because everyone is doing coke in the toilet😂😂😂

[@Mayhamsdead]

I feel sorry for the countries where that's a thing.

[@wanganeu]

@@MayhamsdeadIts not countries, addiction is not discriminating it can get anyone. Snorting lines is not a real wedding tradition unless you are among the wrong crowd then any party consists of doing lines 🤡

[@I_dontsnake]

11:53 I remember as I kid I went to a wedding where the bride and groom tossed coins

[@cathcartjames]

The star of this video is the fly at 8:20

[@Ктоя-ь1м]

Your humor is so great that I began screaming and crying and dying. This is seriously the funniest video I ever watched

[@boomerix]

What, no mention of the Bride kidnapping in which the Groom has to get his wife back? I'm pretty sure that was also part of a typical Hungarian wedding, but it might be a more northern thing.

[@SzotyMAG]

It sounds pretty stereotypical but personally I've not heard of it ever happening irl

[@namikazeshizue]

We also have this in Moldova and Romania

[@dylandogg54]

It's funny how I never noticed anything wrong with our weddings yet now that you compiled all of it into 12 minutes it sounds fucking bonkers lol and I think you captured everything very well.

[@dimitardimitrov8449]

Love it. Zdravo kume!

[@snoopyportfolio2072]

The more I learn about Serbia, the more I learn Albanians and Serbs are very VERY similar in culture.

[@southepirote7676]

Only the malok people.

[@Andrej_1389]

bro just just dont ok?

[@aegea363]

(Turkiye) The last wedding that I went to was my aunts and since our side of the family is so close we were given the special seats and the table from the front rows but since the speakers at the wedding worked like Navy LRAD my eardrums went weak for 2 days and whenever I tried to sleep all I could think was that song.

[@beesz-ov3wf]

Really nice collection, congrats! Few more thing to mention: - in this part of the world (specifically Romania) people when dance, the do it standing in circle, nobody really knows why - not only on weddings - forgot to mention the fireworks as a wedding-sidekick for people who matter - decorated cars lined up and crossing the city together, while honking like there is no day after tomorrow - the bride must have a photo session at a waterfall, just for good luck

[@__kvik]

You forgot some of the must-have ingredients: 1. During the buying the bride business the groom shall be catfished at least three times by the bride's family before getting to meet the actual bride: first an old lady is presented to him, usually the bride's grandma, with whom he must dance, etc. to determine if it is his bride or not. Upon determining that it is not, in fact, his bride, he shall be presented with a man dressed as a bride, which will usually be the bride's grandpa and he'll similarly have to dance, hold, etc. to determine if it is his bride or not. Upon determining, again, that this man is not, in fact, his bride, he shall be presented with a little girl, bride's niece perhaps, and the theatricals shall resume as before. Finally, the actual bride is presented to the groom and they kiss and dance in relief that the torture and humiliation is finally over while the band turns up to 11 and everyone drinks what's left to drink before heading out to the church. 2. On a way to the church it is imperative for the whole wedding procession to honk their car horns constantly while drunk-driving through the town / village very slowly, taking up all the lanes available, swerving left and right while people hang out the windows and drink Rakia, shoot guns, throw fireworks, and in general cause a traffic collapse wherever they go through. 3. Contrary to popular belief, the tradition of gifting money to the newly wed couple just before Gulash is served around midnight is not, in fact, about helping them to get a start in life. It is about signaling how rich your family is to whoever is counting that money the next day, which'd usually be the bride's family. Sometimes the gifts are opened right there and then, and broadcast to the entire wedding on a speakerphone, with names and amounts and everything -- so you better make *damn* sure to make it a nice sum, even if it means going broke for a month, or you'll be put on a blast in front of quite literally everyone that you and your family knows and will likely know. Oh, another thing, this "gift"? It's not actually a gift, it's actually a LOAN which the bride and the groom are expected to pay back when you get married or have a kid or whatever the next outstanding circumstance awaits in the future. The information on how much money families "owe" each other through this tradition is carefully kept up with by the matriarchs of the house and is of the utmost importance. There are a lot more details that are, in my opinion, crucial to the actual understanding of the Balkan wedding phenomena.

[@Hajde_budalla]

#1 😂 grandpa wears a veil too?

[@zoltankiss1533]

I will be going to my first real balkan wedding in october, thank you for the tutorial 👍

[@namikazeshizue]

Good luck bro👍

[@ian72marian]

Prepare the envelope, everyone will see what you give...

[@lollylula6399]

These weddings look like so much fun, have a great time!

[@stefan-xaverscherrer7648]

I am so happy.^^ Good Video.

[@idle_sniper]

this is by far the funnies video you've ever made it is suprising that weddings in rural poland, where i come from, are pretty simillar regarding food, music and ofc drinking we've got tradition of "gating" or "making gate", where some people from village block the way of wedding cars, and until they are bribed with vodka and cake they won't move from the road and of course someones uncle have to drink ungodly amouth of vodka, and still be a better dancer than yourself

[@xiaopingzdrang834]

In Romania, it's the kids' job to stop the wedding, they get some money and the adults near alcool 😅

[@historynerdj2900]

3:10 I have been to a Hungarian mass, and the priest there straight up talked about AI…. At a Christmas Mass

[@Woah9394]

4:42 I wasn’t in a wedding but rather a 8th grade celebration in Romania(it’s called “banchet” here) and it’s the same We went to a huge house that is in what looks like a VERY poor area and i was shocked that it was in my city and not in a adjunct comune but the inside looked very elegant(they even had red carpets outside)

[@zetenyharnos1201]

In hungary there is also a thing called "morzsa party" (crumb party), which happens the day after the wedding ,where you just eat the left over food and after that you take it home. Basicly you can bring anyone to this party even if they werent there at the wedding

[@antonpeleah3040]

Amazing episode, would love to see an episode about Balkan music :) thank you for your ironic service

[@thelushflame13]

Manele mane-mane-manele

[@funnykiasedona1077]

Imagine your friends are marrying every other week, you have to “enjoy” 3 to 4 weddings a month while also going bankrupt from the 100 to 400 euro donation every event

[@olitheowl1379]

As soon as he is through a door, he DRINKS...😂😂😂

[@8Aerondight8]

Most of the times the best man arrives pre-drunk and just continues on drinking through the day

[@ipcipc7760]

That Hungarian dude on wedding exist in some part of Serbia, it is called Stari Svat, that is in some part of Serbia, he is main ceremony and protocol guy, who is taking care that everything is going smooth, no metter how guest’s are drunk or crazy LOL

[@kristidev]

I am Albanian and the “venue” they usually used in my city had two floors, one for weddings and one for funeral. I vividly remember trying to hold my laugh at my grand father’s funeral dinner as gypsy wedding music was blasting from upstairs.

[@Luchezarionne]

i went to one wedding as a kid, can confirm we start world wars there

[@fdeeaa]

You forget the most important part, the wedding gift show-off (in general money), when relatives are updated on who is rich and who is poor.

[@mikeshvedov6981]

My wedding "feast" was on Traktor Plant in the local Canteen😂 Not balcans, but close enough

[@xxxxpallixxxx]

Hello from Iceland

[@SinicaBalkan]

At my cousin's wedding in Hungary they played Nelkuled a few times in addition to turbofolk in the middle of a ranch.. it was interesting. I am surprised you didn't mention the bride stealing or "selling the bride" for dances which happens in Hungary sometimes. I can confirm, Hungarian priests use the weddings to just go off.. it should take 10 minutes, not 2 hours.

[@hagymakarika]

Kedves János, szétröhögtem magam. Köszi!😂

[@LivingIronicallyinEurope]

Én is köszönöm!

[@nickwilger]

I’m an American about to get married in Montenegro. Wish me luck bois 🤞

[@avg_ale21]

I mean, as a Northern Mexican... This ain't that different from our way to celebrate a wedding

[@andrewstachowski3375]

i live across the street from a serbian othordox church and i can definitely confirm rich serbian girls are also really hot

[@NothingFunnyAboutTheseCarpets]

Cool to see the similarities to my country of Portugal especialy regarding the absurd amount of food, drink and deserts. So much fun

[@VitharPL]

It's kinda interesting how Hungarian weddings are similar to Polish ones - we are truly nephew countries.

[@Embrod]

Prawdę powiedziawszy, to cały opis wesela - brzmi znajomo. Nie, nie tylko ten węgierski.

[@DriftEmigrant]

So far that's one of your best videos ! Man you make my day!!!

[@karinat.8260]

My own Balkan wedding is coming up next year... thank you for visualizing it realistically 😅😅

[@midnightflare9879]

Another staple thing on a Hungarian wedding is when the band starts playing a very popular song from 1980 called "There goes the locomotive to Kanizsa" or "Megy a gőzös Kanizsára" everyone has to stand up and from a line to become a train and choo-choo around the tables while holding each other's shoulder with their arms, and trying to rope in as many people into the fun as possible.

[@janjurik660]

Dude, we have the same thing in Slovakia, the only different thing is that we use different song

[@midnightflare9879]

@@janjurik660 I keep telling people, we're really not that different from each other, despite what many of us say.

[@janjurik660]

@@midnightflare9879 yeah, that's true. Same goes for Croats to some extent

[@yustmark4355]

I went to Romania for my uncles wedding he is a Serb and married a Hungarian so we had most of the things in the video happen XD

[@davinnicode]

These musicians man. They have incredible skill and re absolutely crazy playing for hours and hours. I need to visit Guca festival soon. The partying sound absolutely mental.

[@thelushflame13]

They'll only want a small donation of 100 lei(count it if you want)

[@Ozrenlem-ky5ev]

It is a little bit different in Turkey. The most of weddings doesn't go with drinking. Even if they drink, they drink under the table so no one can see even though everyone knows what they're doing.

[@mueezadam8438]

What if they’re just playing footsies or committing adultery? No need to cast accusations.

[@fationmuhollari9768]

You're a legend man. However, I think Balkan music is one of the main reasons to go to a wedding, it's awesome!

[@potatojo3427]

It's interesting to see this video as a Baltic person, since it seems like our weddings are pretty similar, but just toned down a lot lol

[@Garlarg]

1:16 Damn, that's spot on! I don't know that it's intentional, or what, but he is actually a very famous toxicologist in Hungary (Zacher Gábor). He even has a Wikipedia page.

[@odipus1000]

Spot on János. Only thing you forgot to mention is the tradition of drunk friends stealing the bride. Keep up the good work! 🎉😂❤

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

I've been to a couple village weddings in Hungary. It's like the whole town and everyone in it was involved in some way. Very fun compared to an american city wedding.

[@dimitrijearsenijevic5597]

Janus, the fuck ya on about,

[@SapereAude1490]

Speaking from experience, 500+ in Mostar, 600+ in Sarajevo. Kosovo and Sandžak can get even more crazy.

[@dimitrijearsenijevic5597]

@@SapereAude1490 Yeah, 500+ is standard, Vojvodina peeps man, theyve been austrohungarian for too long, it ruined them!

[@radomirkolev5310]

If you are lucky enough to be present on a Balkan wedding there is a slight chance to see the cousins of the two sides of the groom and a bride to have a sudden fight in the middle of the party for absolutely whatever reason. After that they sit down and they are becoming best friends. If you are extremely lucky, you will see them fighting for a second round, completely forgotten the first fight due to the alcohol poisoning they are having.

[@nathaliebazinga]

Oh Serbian weddings are much much more complex. XD I've worked on weddings with a photographer for 10+ years. My favourite tradition is the one where a guy friend dresses up as a bride to trick the groom. And the music will seriously vary depending on where you're from. In Vojvodina, it's extremely easy to attend completely different weddings just by going to a different village. You'll get to hear all kinds of music, from Vojvodina tamburica, to trumpets, to turbofolk, rock, pop, krajina etc. The worst I think are krajina weddings in Vojvodina. Usually held outside in tents, lambs roasting and the mix of bbq smoke and cigarette smoke entertwining together to clog up your lungs for years to come. It's always 40+ degrees under the tent so people reek of armpit stank and alcohol ...shirts wet, stuck onto guys' fat bellies...then they come and hug you and you instantly feel as if you've sunk into the deep dark ocean along with the Titanic. Waiters serving an ungodly amount of drinks and encouraging you to take more...there isn't a wedding either if some drama doesn't happen. One time at one single wedding, three guests got into a car crash...the music podium and the tent collapsed..the photographer's car started smoking and someone stole all the wedding gift money xD it's CHAOS

[@ghiuleaalex2752]

Best video in a while. GG janoş

[@antares8476]

I have been at a couple of these weddings as a kid and a teen and to keep the kids in check and behave (usually 6-12 kids) there was one line used: "don't make me call your mother". If they called that ment you went home and stayed with a familymember or someone who wasn't coming to the wedding and both your parents went back. And you wouldn't get cake or your parents won't bring you any cake from the wedding. So you behaved. Kids were watched over by evryone since everyone was there. And there fore everyone could stop us, if we misbehaved and as a kid a stranger grabbing you out of nowhere scared you. So if you didn't want that, you behaved. Otherwise your mother was called.

[@lhenkhantus2588]

i live in hungary and my cousin is getting married this september. safe to say i'm excited

You didn't even mention the two most important traditions in Hungary: - The kidnapping of the bride by friends so that the young husband has to find and pay ransom for her in some way (usually she's taken to a nerby pub or other music venue to entertaib people there with the act as well) - The "bride's dance", where you have to pay money for a minute of dance wirh her, also a form of giving money to the couple as a wedding gift (and compensate for the cost of treating you well on their wedding)