"Ah, this wedding, the wedding sang and danced," calling the life of the newlyweds happiness, love and prosperity. And all the wedding traditions that have developed over the centuries, carefully preserved and passed down from generation to generation, are based on an unshakable belief that, as the wedding day passes, the life of a young family will also take shape. Grandmothers-keepers of traditions strictly follow that all wedding rituals and signs are observed. And they are rich in all stages of the wedding - from buying rings to the wedding night. What signs promise happiness or trouble to the bride and groom? What can you do newlyweds on your wedding day, and what's strictly forbidden?
Good signs for the bride
- On the night before the wedding, the bride must sleep in the nightgown turned inside out (her mother-in-law will love), and on the pillow under which the mirror lies (it will always be beautiful).
- Before the wedding, the bride must cry. It promises her happiness in marriage. Especially "bring" the young to tears can her parents, expressing touching words of blessing.
- The wedding dress must necessarily be one-piece, which presages a strong marriage, unlike a separately sewn corset and skirt, prophesying the bride's separation from the groom.
- The dress in the floor is worn by brides who believe in a sign that the length of the dress determines the duration of family life.
- On the wrong side of the dress the bride is sewed by a twig loving (for strong love) and makes a few stitches with a blue thread (from the evil eye).
- A lucky sign is that if a bride is dressed in a woman who is in a happy marriage for 7 consecutive years.
- Young shoes should cover both the heel and the sock. Well, if they are a day or two before the wedding several times raznosheny. This is to the happy roads.
Good signs for the groom
- Happy are the wedding rings, which the groom has acquired. Rings with a smooth flat surface - a pledge of a long family life "without a hitch and a hitch."
- The ration will be provided by a coin, which the groom can put in his shoe under the heel. It will be the guardian of the material well-being of the family.
- To bring the bride into the house on his hands means to fill the house with love, happiness and faithfulness.
- The groom, who eats at the wedding table a lot of sweets, will give the bride many sweet kisses and passionate love.
Bad signs in the wedding day
- The bride must closely watch the bouquet so that until the end of the evening he does not fall into the wrong hands (give his fortune), behind his heels on shoes (a broken heel to a "lame" family life), behind a dress (if it breaks - to quarrels with his mother-in-law).
- A colorful or embroidered belt on the bride's dress is a threat to future childbirth. It will be difficult for the parturient to be born.
- To drop during wedding or wedding ceremony any personal things - to cause misfortune. For example, a handkerchief is to be a widow's bride, rings are for misfortunes in the family. If you dropped the ring, then through it you pass the usual thread, which will take over all the negative. After marriage, it is burned.
- The lost rings after the wedding portend to the couple a serious quarrel or separation.
- A wedding car decorated with a doll is a bad omen for a future child. It can be born dead. The best decoration for a car is called ringing metal bells or bells.
- Spilled on a table or chairs where newlyweds, crumbs or spilled water should sit - to quarrels and scandals.
What can and can not be done by a newly-married couple?
- It is impossible for young people who are not yet in a legal union to give each other photos. To separation.
- It is impossible for the bride and groom to meet before the wedding. If a young woman before the wedding ceremony sees her future wife in a wedding dress - be a trouble.
- You can not wear young wedding dresses without charms and energy protection. The groom fasten the safety pin with the head down under the buttonhole, the bride on the underside of the hem of the dress.
- You can not marry with borrowed wedding rings from parents. It means to sort out the fate of their family life. It is strictly forbidden to do this if the marriage of the parents did not work out.
- It is impossible for the newlyweds to give someone their marriage rings, even to the closest and most loved ones.
- It is impossible for a young couple to dance at their wedding apart. Dances are allowed only with parents, after which they must again reunite the hands of the newlyweds.
- You can not sit young at the table on different chairs. They should have one for two. But the dishes should be strictly at everyone's own. Trying to eat or drink from each other's dishes is prohibited.
- Can the newlyweds in front of the house break a beautiful plate - for luck!
- You can break the first glass with sparkling champagne, so that married life spilled over with happiness and prosperity.
- It is possible for a young couple before the marriage procedure to eat one for two chocolate, so that the family life is sweet.
- You can ride for a long time after the marriage ceremony. It is believed that so the newlyweds confuse the tracks for the unclean, who can not find their way and spoil the family happiness.