This West Sumatran bride wears the hair accessory to end all hair accessories. The traditional golden crown, called a suntiang, can weigh up to eight pounds.
Like Pakistani and Indian brides, Berber women (their tribe lives in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco) have a henna party before their wedding. Another woman carefully applies the bride's makeup, which she doesn't get to show off until her groom takes off a thick veil covering her entire face.
It's tradition within the Nigerian Tuareg tribe that a blacksmith's wife does a bride's hair, coating it with pomade and black sand before braiding it. It's also a Tuareg custom that if a man is interested in a woman, he sneaks into her tent and tickles her ear. OK, then.
When you imagine a bride getting ready for her wedding day, you probably envision a mother-daughter trip to Kleinfeld to pick out the perfect white gown, or an inspiration board of bridal updos that she tries out weeks in advance. But if you're a bride in West Sumatra, Bulgaria or Morocco, that routine might look a little different -- like an eight-pound-crown, face-paint, tinsel-veil kind of situation. One thing's for sure: Beyond the Western world, bridal beauty has a million definitions. Here are some of the world's most amazing bridal 'dos, makeup and accessories we've ever seen.