Weddings of any nationality are famous for their special traditions and rituals. But to whatever people the perpetrators of the celebration belong, all the rituals symbolize purity, love , devotion to the hearts and the continuation of the family.
The most ancient rite is to meet young people after marriage with bread and salt in the groom's house. This tradition symbolizes that the new family "baked", in which there should be prosperity and satiety. To break or bite off the loaf came into the rite only in the last centuries, when women began to fight for equality in the house with men.
The traditional unification of the young, begins with the threshold of the registry office, when the mother-in-law takes out a pair, tied their hands together with a scarlet ribbon. Often you can meet on the table the newlyweds tied together bottles, symbolizing the bride and groom, this continuation of the rite "bind forever".
Beautiful ceremonies at the wedding
Rite with a lighted candle at the wedding symbolizes the warmth of the home. As a rule, the mother of the bride lights the fire and passes her daughters. It is very important to use a large candle that will not go out for the wedding day, so that young people have lived their entire life in peace and harmony. The last dance of the young with a candle symbolizes that their love will not fade away forever.
Beautiful custom - lock the lock on the key, it means that the family is closed from strangers, there is no entrance to it "third superfluous", and as the key is thrown into the river, there is no way out of the family. This ritual "closes" the family, keeps the fidelity of the couple.
Often, young people release pigeons into the sky, this ritual symbolizes farewell to a windy youth. Modern young couples altered this tradition and tied a pink ribbon to the bride's doe's foot, and the syzokryly groom was marked with a blue ribbon. It is believed - whose bird will fly higher, such a sex in the first child will be.
Traditionally, you can determine the sex by a random passerby, who met the newlyweds on the way from the wedding home. This person must be thanked and fed, so that the future child is always healthy.
Interesting ceremonies at the wedding
The rite of bride price at the wedding came to us from old times, but much has changed in it. Earlier the ransom was made by verses, dances, songs and
The ancient rite is the removal of the veil at the wedding from the bride's head. The white veil means the virgin's virginity and at the end of the evening the mother removes her from the head of her daughter before the wedding night. After that, the newly-made husband takes a young wife in his arms and brings him into his house, necessarily stepping over the threshold so that the evil spirits do not frighten the girl.