My Great Spanish Wedding

The desire to fall in love and bond your feelings with the bonds of marriage is something that is common to people of all ages, countries, color or creed. Another thing is tradition, which we all have different. In this article, we will tell you why Spanish weddings make the groom cut a tie and why the local brides have blue garters.

On the eve of the wedding, a pious village girl will take a basket, put fresh eggs there and take it to the nearest female monastery. The addressee of the parcel is Saint Clara, who protects the brides in everything that concerns the weather.

However, the urban ladies do not do this leisure. The main point in the list of important pre-wedding affairs for her is a bachelorette party, where girlfriends, having thrown off, will give her a private dance of a handsome man - a stripper or expensive underwear.

In the meantime, the bridegroom will have to look for 13 gold coins and buy a dozen other good cigars. The first he will give the bride as a pledge of a future comfortable life, the latter will give out to come to support his friends.

When young people want to get married in a church, they choose the right one in advance and negotiate with the local rector the day, hour, payment, as well as what kinds of papers need to be given to the parish to approve the marriage. As a rule, this is a testimony about baptism and a statement signed by the bride and groom, which says that they have both reached the age of 18, are alone and have no underlying foundations that prevent the holding of the sacramental sacrament.

If you suddenly get married in the Basque Country and you want to observe the traditions, the bride will have to forget about the long white veil and put on a black dress, and the groom can not avoid the beret.

In Andalusia, a very common dress in such cases is suits for flamenco. The locals in each region have their own; But do not worry to make the main day of your life as colorful as possible, it is not necessary to study books about local folklore or to interview the old-timer.

As a rule, it is enough to apply to one of the companies that organize such celebrations in your city. There you will find out what dishes you can not imagine a festive table in Seville, or why Catalan beetles read poems to their children's favorites.

But even if the young decide to play the usual podbba, they still can not escape some unusual accessories. The most common superstition in Spain prescribes the bride, in addition to the white dress, to put on »something old, something new, something borrowed and something Blue ", and in a bouquet to stick a twig of an orange tree.

The old symbolizes the connection of the girl with her past and her parents. New hopes for a happy future. The borrowed-hope for friendly support. Blue, however, represents adulthood. Often, it is this color that brides prefer to wear garters.

Marrying the Spaniards is taken closer to the evening. No way on Tuesday, which is considered the most unfortunate day for a wedding (this is for war or quarrels). Nest is usually led to the altar by the father. It is always left. One version of the origin of this custom is : If the bridegroom has a mouthful of a militant rival and will come to his head at the last moment to repel the beloved, the right hand of the pope will be free to get weapons and punish the wicked. There is yet another obligatory part of the ceremony-the exchange of rings. As a rule, they are used for them without myanny finger of his left hand.

At the exit from the church, the young in Spain, just like in many other countries of the world, are sprinkled with rice, it is believed that this greatly contributes to their fertility.

If a Spanish wedding is held in the city, it's not possible to arrange a festive dinner in your own home, let alone an apartment, even if you've made a major renovation of the apartment. The most common option is a restaurant, rented from 1 pm to 3 pm, where , For sure, all the guests will fit. They should be very, very much at any decent Spanish wedding, like music, flowers and wine:

To see how to marry favorite cousin nephew or marry second cousin, relatives are ready to go from the most remote corners of the country.

The main thing is not to forget anyone. You will forget - a bloody insult for life.

And even the most modern residents of Madrid and Barcelona are forced to put up with this. Equally, as with the tradition of cutting the groom's tie, and the bride-garter , before the newly married couple and go to spend their first wedding night. This is usually their friends sin to hint to everyone about the purpose of leaving the young and thereby cause a merry laugh of invited guests .

Although recently this barbarous custom is considered a bad form and gradually goes out of fashion. For example, you can not say about the wild, in the eyes of any Catalonian or Galician, a tradition prevalent among Spanish Gypsies.

It is called Prueba del pañuelo and consists in the following: in the midst of the celebration, men, including the groom, leave the hall where the banquet is taking place, and the mother-in-law, under the steadfast gaze of the bride and groom, examine the latter for chastity. A small drop of blood on a snow-white headscarf , Lovingly sewn by the mother of the girl, means that the wedding can be considered held. Everyone is happy and the festivities last till the morning.

But according to what traditions the Spanish wedding was not held, always the same thing: a day of marriage at all times has been and remains one of the main days in the life of the Spaniards. They dream about him for many years and then remember the rest of the life.