Since ancient times the bread and salt of the newly married couple met the groom's parents. After all, it was in their house that he brought his tapered. In our days this tradition is somewhat simplified, and the loaf waits for the young in a banquet hall or other room where the wedding is celebrated.
What is needed to meet the young with a loaf
To begin with, the loaf must be large. Its size and all sorts of decorations promise a rich and happy life to the newlyweds. Certainly, one can not create unnecessary worries and simply buy ready-made round bread in a bakery. However, by this you deprive yourself of quite an interesting pastime. And what symbolizes the wedding loaf, will lose its actuality. After all, you do not even know who it is and with what mood.
According to tradition, only women were allowed to engage in wedding ritual baking. For this purpose, one of the happiest married ladies was invited to the groom's house. She kneaded the dough, constantly singing a positive song-sentences about love. And when forming bread, round as a sun, I read prayers. Required were "Our Father" and "to the Theotokos." To send a loaf was sent by a man. Also married and held. Thus, bread absorbed the positive energy of family well-being. And the recipe for the wedding caravan was passed on from generation to generation.
Decoration hawser and towel
- wheat ears - wealth,
- viburnum - love,
- spit - inextricable relationship of spouses.
- figures of swans - fidelity and loyalty. It is interesting that swans are found in many wedding traditions of the world . Along with the grapes, which symbolizes fertility. Both in business and in the pursuit of offspring.
In fact, the decoration of the caravan for the newlyweds reconfigured with the pictures embroidered on the towel. A painted towel also made a lot of sense in itself. First, it should have been very beautiful, so the embroidery was entrusted to experienced craftsmen. Secondly, the towel was made by the two-sided: the female side and the male side. The decorations went in three rows. The first embodied the continuity of generations and used plant motivations. Second - best wishes to the groom and the bride. For example, red pawns, symbolizing happiness and health, or roses for eternal love in the house. The third series served as a guard for the young. Most often in this capacity, the crown was advocated. She was perceived as asking for God's blessing of marriage.
Today the tow is given less importance. But vseravno it is necessary to choose it very carefully. After all, this towel you will keep for many years, remembering with joy your important day. A photo of the wedding car will take a worthy place in your album.
How to meet the young with a loaf
If you follow the Russian tradition, the answer to the question of who keeps the loaf at the wedding will be unambiguous. This is the mother of the groom, or the oldest relative who replaces her. There should be a father or a godfather. Guests form a semicircle, encouraging the young. Sometimes before the meeting, they speak special words for the wedding caravan.
Round bread is placed on a towel without a plate, in the middle there is a salt shaker. The towel itself should hang freely on the sides almost to the floor, but not touch it.
But it is not necessary to clothe your parting words in a poetic form. A few sincere good words with the conclusion "advice and love" will be enough. The main thing is that they go a clean heart.
Tip: At the meeting of the newlyweds you can take the icon of the Mother of God or the Savior. Or a fold, in which immediately represented icons.
The young bow to their parents and thank them. Then, under the applause of guests, you should treat yourself to bread and salt. The bride and groom are offered to bite off a piece of wedding cake and eat, pre-salting. Traditional wedding entertainment is that the couple should take their hands back and try to bite off as much as possible a piece. He who will win, and be the master of the house.
Назаметку: It's necessary to salt a piece of loaf. Especially the bride. According to an old saying, it is believed that so she eats all her tears.
Food with bread
After the meeting with the caravan, the newlyweds and guests pass to the banquet hall. Wedding bread is cut or breaks into a lot of slices distributed to guests. To carry a piece of a caravan from a wedding is considered a good thing. Unmarried girls take their bread ornaments with a loaf and put them under the pillow, hoping to see a sucked one in a dream.
In ancient times there was an unspoken set of rules how to separate the loaf. According to Russian-wedding traditions, the process was led by the groom's groom or best man, as he is now called. After the newlyweds, parents received bread, then older relatives. And only then the loaf came to the guests. And, each piece was exchanged for a gift or money. The remnants of the wedding caravan were distributed to the poor who were waiting outside. So you can only imagine how big and tasty it was.
Назаметку: Also, the loaf can be carried to the church. It will be a donation for the peace and welfare in the family.
Traditions associated with the wedding bread, there are not one hundred years. Therefore, if you want to preserve the continuity of generations, then try to find out everything about the wedding caravan and hold this ceremony as colorful as possible. In the scenario of the meeting, you can make your own adjustments, remember other signs of the wedding and make an excellent program on their basis. Then your family life begins with a beautiful and symbolic holiday.
Special words for wedding carvings
As people love bread and salt, so the husband would love his wife. Like sugar can not be replaced with sugar, so the husband can not change his wife either with the dark, the niso light, neither full, nor thin, nor smart, nor stupid, nor with any another work. Like the bread and salt people love, so the wife would love her husband. As salt sugar can not be replaced, so the wife can not change her husband, either with the dark, with the light, with the full, with the thin, with the clever, with the stupid, or with any other slave. Amen.
The words of parents
- Dear our children!
Dear our children! Bread and salt we give to you,
That you are divided in this world in half.
There will be joy or sorrow - avoid unnecessary dramas,
To give in to each other in a dispute, you need to learn.
Live by faith and law, do not seek easy life,
Bring relatives, friends, respect father and mother.
There will be children, grandchildren will be - everything will go its own chredom.
Husband, take your wife's hand! And advice to you and love!
We have such a custom,
Since childhood he is used to us
Bread and salt all guests to meet
Low in the belt to bow,
Than rich to share
At the table in Russian,
Generously treat.
Bread to you, yes salt,
Happiness and love,
So the people say from time immemorial.
Take this loaf,
He was ruddy, fresh and magnificent,
As hot as your heart.
In the middle we are happy for you,
Keep it to the end.