Being American, I’ve heard of a lot of different wedding traditions that actually hail from different cultures. But I guess that’s just how it goes — as people immigrate here from other countries, they incorporate their wedding traditions, which friends from other cultures might think is cool and incorporate into their wedding, and so on and so forth until no one is sure anymore where the tradition came from.

For example, here is probably the most well-known of non-American wedding tradition — the smashing of a glass at a Jewish wedding. It’s been made famous in countless movies (by Adam Sandler a few times, I think), but where did it come from?
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