Wedding tradition in Eastern Europe
In Bulgaria, the color red plays a special role in the wedding. Bulka is the bride, which means in German as much as poppies. The red represents the White Wedding Bridal usual in Germany. Even the wedding jewelry in the studio and on the table is in red and the guests bring with red scarves. For the bride marriages means they must be pure and to the traditional practice in a hot tub, which is filled with hot coals, and jump over a red belt.
In Romania, a competition occurs at the groom to the bridal wreath. In the friends of the bride climbing up a tree and place the bridal wreath at the tree top. The groom takes the help of his friends in the right and climb over them in the air, to fetch the bride's wreath and put on the bride. During the wedding ceremony, coins are tossed at the feet of the couple as a symbol of wealth and marital happiness. The bride will inject your own home at Rose Water in the wedding party, while the guests of salt and wheat grains scatter. During the celebration, in jest, the two mothers start an argument, ward off future conflicts.
In Hungary, the invitation makes it the Family Festival the Hochzeitslader, poems in which he brings to the guests and plotting them, Cutlery,. Therefore it is the wine bottle, which he carries with him, refilled. So it wants the practice. Is celebrated in Hungary with a large cast and plenty, and the royal couple will receive a Christmas cake before entering the house. If you get hold the larger piece, prevails in the marriage. In any case, the bride should first set their foot on the threshold, to live on equal terms.
In Poland, it wants the practice that the bride before the wedding is spared. In the mirror, the bride must not only look, when she takes off one shoe. Most are dancing at a wedding in Slovakia. The biggest tradition is exuberant joy of life and extensive partying.
Russia exerts still happy from the custom originating in Asia, that the bride will be bailed out, the groom's parents turns out to honor the dowry. Traditionally, a bag of coins is paid. Instead of coins allowed as well as potatoes or fruit in the bag.
For weddings in Russia is significantly more eating and drinking. All the guests come with a variety of toasts, to be presented to the assembled wedding party. Then each toast with vodka is poured. To fill the travel fund for the honeymoon, is the bride's shoe pinches and the godfather, the highest bidder.
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