Written by Alix Strauss On the night before a wedding, a purposeful cacophony of shattering plates at a party isn’t the norm — unless you are participating in the Polterabend, a German tradition that means “eve of making a racket.” On July 9, 2011, Ingrid Busson-Hall embraced the Polterabend tradition the evening before her wedding. She married Scott Hall, 56, co-founder of Althub, an investment consulting service, at her parents’ home in St.-Sauveur, Quebec. “My mother is German,” said Busson-Hall, 49, a regulatory and enforcement lawyer. “My parents had a Polterabend at their wedding. This honored my mom’s side of...