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Wedding & Honeymoons In Tobago.
Romantic Legends
Traditional "Ole Time" Tobago Wedding:This romantic procession was created over 40 years ago. Staged in the village of Moriah it attracts a great amount of people every year during the Tobago Heritage Festival.
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This Ole Time Wedding follows the Courtship Codes and features the wedding along with the after ceremony festivities. Strongly reflected are the European influences on the culture of Tobago.
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Dashing gentlemen are dressed in black and white formal three-piece suits including top hats, bow ties, and white gloves and carrying huge umbrellas to shade their female partners.
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The women, not to be out done, are gaily adorned with 18th and 19th century bustle dresses, platform shoes, wide-brimmed hats decorated with flowers and fascinators with white gloves.
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Heavily jeweled guests line up alongside their partners ready to "walk de wedding."
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After the village church's ceremony, the wedding procession winds its way along the streets, dancing the "brush back" to the sweet sounds of the tambrin and fiddle.www.visittobago.gov.tt/activities/weddings-and-honeymoons
The procession stops along the way to enjoy offerings of cake and wine before moving on to the reception venue.
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Contact Us
• The Division of Tourism and Transportation
• #12 Sangster Hill,Scarborough,Tobago, W.I.
• Phone: 1 868 639 2125, 639 4636Fax: 1 868 639 3566
The Division of Tourism and TransportationTobago House of Assemblywww.visittobago.gov.tt
Tourist Information Office
Crown Point International Airport.Phone: 1 868 639 0509
Cruise Ship Complex,Scarborough.
Phone: 1 868 635 0934