Wedding tradition lives on in tiny Macedonian village


  • World
  • Monday, 16 Jul 2018

A woman holds up a ring as she takes part in a traditional wedding ceremony in the village of Galicnik, west of capital Skopje, Macedonia July 15, 2018. REUTERS/Ognen Teofilovski

GALICNIK, Macedonia (Reuters) - Zlatko Dimovski started his wedding day the traditional way - a walk to a graveyard in the Macedonian village of Galicnik to talk to the dead and invite them to the ceremony.

He then got shaved and marched through the streets with a group of his friends to call on his future wife, Tanja Lepcenska.

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