In order to get married at all, one has to get engaged. This process may seem uncomplicated, but the people of Fiji came up with quite an original idea. So that the future groom, could ask for the hand of his beloved, at the beginning must offer the father of the bride a whale tooth. ¹⁾

Before they can leave with their new spouses, some grooms in South Korea are subjected to a foot-beating ceremony. His groomsmen or family members take off his shoes and tie his ankles with rope before pounding his feet with a stick or, in some instances, a dried fish. While clearly painful, the ritual is brief and intended to be more entertaining than punishing, and the beating of the groom's feet seems to be a measure of the newlywed husband's strength of character, as the groom is often quizzed and challenged during the act. ²⁾