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| | Wedding is a solemn ceremony dedicated to the initiation of marriage. Different countries have many legends: signs, songs and rites related to marriage. In some cultures wedding is followed by religious rites (wedding ceremony in Christianity and etc.).
Participants of wedding ceremony:
Main participants of the wedding ceremony are bridegroom and bride. In cultures of various countries in the world, significant role is played by relatives of the groom and bride. Toast-master is the Wedding organizer. In some parts of the world wedding ceremony is held in the presence of witnesses.
Wedding ceremony in many cultures means ritual moving of bride from her parents home to groom’s home, exchange of gifts and feast and etc.
Wedding rituals follow the conclusion of marriage. At the early stages of social development, during mother-family formation, wedding was a simple affair. Wedding as ritualized make-up of marriage got special attention during patriarchal period when single marriage (monogamy) and shifting of spouses into bridegroom’s house (patriarchal marriage), was practiced. Main idea behind wedding rituals in many cultures is bride moving out of her parent’s home to grooms home, i.e. dramatized version of woman’s entry into new family, a new family line. This event, as a rule, is followed by exchange of gifts, festive feast, merry-making and etc. Relatives of groom and bride and also special ceremonial persons like matchmakers, groomsman and brides man, participate in the wedding. Content of these weddings varies.
Often played is a drama that the bride is forcibly taken away by bridegroom and his friends and resistance by her relatives to that and etc., this reflects period in the history of marriage when new
(in comparison with the previous times) order of patriarchal village and submission of woman to the man and his relatives. During dissolution of patriarchal society, when for a woman considered to be labor power, certain payment was demanded (Veno among some European people, kalym among Mongolians, Turkic people and others), “sale” of bride came up in staging of wedding rituals and along with that emerged «bride-show»- ritual of looking at would be brought bride. Many wedding rituals are associated with religious concepts, have mystic sense, and are invoked to protect newly married from “evil spirits”, “hoodoo” and etc. Many cultures, where religious reverence of hearth and home (patron of home) existed, movement of bride from one family to another followed by farewell of woman to the hearth and home of parents and dedication to the husband’s hearth and home. In weddings of Slavic, Caucasian and many other people, grain, wheat flour, hop, various nuts and etc, heaped on just married couple, stand for copiousness, prosperity and so on. Together with this developed ritual cycle emerged too are ritual dress code for bride and groom and the participants of wedding.
For every nation at certain stage of its development, peculiar is traditional stable system of wedding ceremonies combining all types of folk arts (theater play, music, singing, dances and games. Developed religious cults usually incorporate into wedding system the religious ceremony of wedding which does not push out vernacular ceremony, which initial meaning is often forgotten, becomes a tradition. |
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Japanese space company started offering wedding ceremonies in space. The price tag is $2.3 million for a flight in a small space vessel at up to 60 miles into the sky. During the hours-long flight the wedding ceremony will be conducted in zero gravity while the couple will be able to observe the Earth from space. The price includes the space ship reservation for the couple and up to three guests.
