The Day a Hutterite Bride Leaves Everyone She Knows

Look down the women's side of a Hutterite dining hall, and almost every married woman you see was born on another colony. The men stay where they were born. The women are the ones who arrive. I'm Eva Wurz, head cook on a Hutterite colony in southern Alberta, and I arrived here at twenty. In this video: how two people meet when there is no dating, the Sunday a young man asks for a girl in front of her whole family, the two weeks her friends spend painting her new home under her future mother-in-law's eye, the list of everything a bride is given, the drive away from home, the wedding in blue, and what it means for a colony that its women all came from somewhere else. Sources - hutterites.org, Courtship: https://hutterites.org/our-beliefs/courtship/ - hutterites.org, Marriage: https://hutterites.org/our-beliefs/marriage/ - hutterites.org, Faith & Ceremonies: https://hutterites.org/?p=131 - Patricia Looney, Hutterite Women and Work, University of Victoria MA thesis (1986), based on fieldwork at a Lehrerleut colony in southern Alberta: https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/bitstreams/122e733d-8c1f-4a98-a5ed-96368a78b271/download About the narrator: Eva Wurz is a composite character. Her voice and image are AI-generated. The facts in this video come from the sources above.