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| | The wedding customs have century old history, and all of them are meant to make young married couple happy and strong.
For many people wedding only then is real when variety of wedding traditions and customs is observed. Each wedding tradition has its own history and special meaning.
In order to show the frugality and readiness for matrimonial life, bride in many European countries she herself bought the wedding shoes.
The custom of the repayment of the bride is symbolical. Before wedding friends the bride abducted playfully, this indicated her parting with the parental house. If the groom did not find the fit wife the repayment paid to his friends.
Bridesmaids should distract from her evil ghosts. To confuse them, they put on in identical dresses together with the bride.
The natural modesty and chastity were highly appreciated a lot; therefore public kiss of the groom and the bride symbolized long relation between them. In order that the groom was cleared of youth sins, he should give the repayment before crossing through a rope tied before a portal of church.
Till the Christening, of wedding ceremonies as such did not exist. Customs were simple, people believed, that they are the children of the nature, the relation between men and women had polygamous character. Quite often there was polygamy. It was not so simple to eradicate century old culture of the people, so as a result by XVI century, there appeared wedding ceremony as a set of pagan and Christian beliefs.
By XVI century wedding ritual was took shape completely. Its basic stages, its participants, ritual dishes and clothes got defined. But taking into account of originality of Russian people, it was impossible to find even two villages where wedding would be held equally. The main persons and the basic course of wedding are the one only identical. Many parts of wedding attributes had been borrowed other people. From ancient traditions came to us of wedding rings, a coverlet of the bride, candles, wedding gifts, union of hands young couple have come. In Antiquity it had appeared seemingly so Russian custom of showering newly married with grain, hop and money. But what about wedding bread? Who doubted that is our, truly Russian custom? But no it was borrowed from a wedding ceremony of ancient Romans. But they did not have this type of bread; their bread was made of salty water and honey.
Before a wedding, young men should receive blessing of their parents. In Russia, parents were esteemed, and to get married secretly very seldom dared as it was considered illegal. Marriages without blessings of parents were condemned by country community, relatives, and were considered, that such marriages would not an end well.
There's no way former "Baywatch" star Carmen Electra and Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro could have had a regular wedding ceremony. The platinum-and-red invitations called for
"hot" attire. And the 200 guests who arrived at the St. Regis Hotel in Los Angeles were greeted by men dressed in black with red masks, attire similar to "Eyes Wide Shut," one of the couple's favorite films. |
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