I’m a gypsy girl – five wedding traditions we follow that non-travellers find strange…brides don’t pay for starters
AN ENGAGED traveller woman has revealed the five wedding traditions gypsies follow that "country people" find strange.
Unlike many 'non-travellers,' Charlotte Ann, 29, revealed that she won't have a huge bill to pick up at the end of her wedding day - because family members pay for the entire thing.
In the clip posted to TikTok (@charlotteann00), she begins: "The number one thing that we do that country people find strange - we ask our parents.
"Disclosure, I'm talking about me and my family, not every traveller and gypsy or every country person either.
"So we ask our parents - obviously the boy will have to ask you 'will you marry me' blah blah blah and after that, he'll have to ask the girl's mammy and daddy.
"He will need their permission if they can get married- that's how it goes.
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"The mammy and daddy have to say 'yes' - you have to have their blessing to get married."
Next up, she notes how all the family members pay for the wedding.
"So we don't pay…there shall be no bills for me!"
Charlotte-Ann then goes on to say how she won't have specific invites for a wedding.
"Whoever wants to go goes," she explains.
"Usually it's just the family who will go to the chapel or the church - just like close family like cousins, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters etc.
"For the after do, after the food, anyone who wants to go will go - there's no invites...let's all party on!"
Charlotte points out that another gypsy wedding tradition is that
the men don't sit with the woman.
"So usually in a wedding you'll have a place where all the women sit which is usually around the dance floor and the men will either sit in a separate room or at the back….the only ones mixing are the teenage boys and girls dancing.
"The elder ones are like, 'no you sit over there and I'm sitting over here.'"
And finally, Charlotte-Ann says that when it comes to planning the wedding, she knows country people's family's help them plan but says her mum will organise everything for her.
"She'll pick my dress - she'll do the lot! All sorted, all done, so hassle free."