The idea of a man and a woman getting married has been past down from generations all over the world and in every culture. Although a couple marrying to formalize their relationship is true throughout the world, but how it happens and the inter workings of a marriage differ from culture to culture. This is because of the social construction an area puts on its people. The way people celebrate this coming together of two people is what is important, and the idea that this relationship means more than others do symbolizes this. Exactly what is a marriage? This is the question that has to be answered before you delve farther in. Marriage is the union of two people planning to spend the rest of their lives together. Around seventy percent of people marry at some point in their life. Most weddings include some kind of weddings vows that are said to one another, the presentation of a gift, and the proclamation of the marriage by an authority figure or leader (Wikipedia, 1). No culture does a wedding exactly the same as another. There is no such thing as the same ole wedding, because not two wedding are the same. The social construction that a culture puts on people deems what their wedding will be like. Weddings in the same area, under the same culture norms, are very similar, but an American wedding and a Middle Eastern wedding are two totally different experiences. This is not because that is the way we want it, but because it is what we know as right. We are taught all these customs as children, and they are burned into our brains. People are spoon fed information on how to live their lives since they were conceived. Some rituals of weddings in the past are shown to be largely the same as weddings today. “Ancient Spartan cultures held stag parties, which are feasts usually held the night before the wedding for the groom and all his friends, symbolizing the goodbye