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How is this "American wedding" and not Christian or American Christian wedding?:

   * The bride traditionally wears “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.” (See also Ceremonial clothing in Western cultures.)
   * The bride usually wears a white dress.
   * Clinking silverware against glassware obliges the newlyweds to kiss.
   * A color scheme is often used so that the invitation matches the bridesmaids' dresses and the table settings.

Perhaps the last thing with the color schemes but, for example, the first and third are not done at a Jewish or presumably other non-Christian wedding. The second one also depends on culture, although it is also done at a Jewish wedding but the symbolism is different and it's not about virginity. Amechad 17:34, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Ehh, what's with all the Scottish wedding stuff...?

I agree. Someone should create Scotland wedding and move much of this stuff into there.

"See also", "External Links" and "Wedding Gifts" apply to the entire article's topic, not just the subsection of Scottish Weddings.

[edit] Competing ethnic weddings info

Looks like topweddings stole their text from someone else's page in 2002:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020916113627/http://www.topweddinglinks.com/ethnicweddings/world.html

The original text was posted in 1999:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990203104724/http://members.aol.com/Mjkarl/ethnic.htm

I'd be interested to see if that original text was actually copied from some other original source - no indication is given on the 1999 page. --JereKrischel 22:00, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Well caught. It would be good to find out where it actually came from, though we could probably do with finding a more reliable source and rewriting the section anyway. I had a half hearted look around when I first moved the URL from the header yesterday, but didn't find anything with significantly more authority. --Siobhan Hansa 23:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)