To ask if you have ever been to a Polish wedding?

[EarlyBird123]

And if so, did you enjoy it?

I am Polish and engaged to a Brit. He wants to get married in Poland, but i am a bit stressed about what his family may think about it?

@thecapitalsunited - oh heck, yeah, THE FOOD: I think I put on about a stone over the course of three days!

No Polish wedding guest has ever left a wedding knowingly underfed, I don't think.

Loved reading the comments as my OH is polish so we will probably get married in Poland as his family is much larger than mine. Friends and family I have mentioned this to are excited to attend a polish wedding. We would also mix Scottish and polish traditions x

@museumum thanks for that. Haven’t thought about that. We are not religious so we will probably skip the church bit (although my mum may get a heart attack) - and that’s another good reason to that

EarlyBird

That sounds like great fun! And speeches are hands down the worst part of British weddings. So boring!

Yes - had the best time ever! The groom hired an amazing master of ceremonies who led all the guests in traditional and not so traditional dance, so much fun after a shot or three of vodka!

A good friend attended son’s wedding a Polish woman in Poland and loved it. Was very impressed by the warmth of the people and hospitality

I went to a Malaysia/Polish wedding in Poland and it was fab. They condensed it down to one afternoon/evening, I didn't know that it would normally last longer than that. The bride (Polish) asked her family not to go too overboard on the vodka but everyone still got pretty merry. There were lots of courses with dancing in between each one, and there was a whole pig roast over an open fire outside for one of the courses and everyone sat around the fire for about half an hour eating pork and listening to the Polish contingent singing traditional folk tunes.

There were a few little culture clashes, for instance on one of the dance breaks they had a circle of single men inside a circle of single women and they did some sort of dance that whittled it down to one man and one women (the details are hazy now). Then they were supposed to kiss at the end, but it was a Polish man and a Malaysian woman and Malaysians have an extremely strong inhibition about touching in public and would never kiss their own spouse let alone a stranger in front of even one other person. The poor Polish guy had no idea what the problem was, but the bride suggested that he kiss her on the hand instead and it was fine (although still a bit weird for the woman I think).

We went to one near Gdansk (Polish bride and English groom) a few years ago - it was so much fun, with great food and so many drinks :)

Yes, it was a lovely wedding. The only thing I'd suggest is having drinks other than vodka (water?! fruit juice!?) out on the tables as well. Not everyone wants to try coping with that much vodka.

@iaburqo i agree, where i come from we always have wine and soft drinks on the tables. We will also have beer and coctail bar so everyone should be catered for

I've been to a Polish/Irish wedding. Bloody brilliant!

Congratulations on getting married

but those who attend and and then moan about it, if that makes sense

Real friends don't do this, honestly, real friends will want you to be happy on your wedding day and will be happy and pleased to share it with you,

@FinallyHere thank you! It is true to an extent - there are still people that you have to invite, even if I don’t want to (like future FIL’s partner) but that’s a topic for completely different thread