Ukrainian Wedding

The traditional Ukrainian weds differ in details, but all(prenominal) of them follow the same pattern in the order of wedding actions. The really first action of the Ukrainian wedding is a formal engagement. The take aim invites two married men (they call them starosty) to visit the home of the bride and to take her parents for her hand in marriage. The wedding ceremony starts at least ace week after engagement. Usually on Thursday or Friday they broil special wedding ritual bread korovai. Before the wedding two groom and bride have separate parties with their close friends.At the girl company (divych vechir) they make a ritual tree (giltse). Together with korovai it stays on the wedding table as a symbol of youth and beauty of the bride and groom. Saturday and Sunday are the days of the church service or the chief(prenominal) civil marriage ceremony. Before the church ceremony, the bride, the groom and their families meet at the home of the brides parents for the blessing, the blahoslovenya. At the blessing, the parents express their approval and good wishes for the couple. The most touch modality and important moment to the couple, their parents, friends and relatives is the church ceremony.The priest blesses the new family for happiness, health, luck, faithfulness, understanding, love and wonder for each other. Gods blessing is the most important blessing for the new family. afterwards the ceremony the groom takes the bride to her parents home and returns to his own home. Both families have repast with their friends and relatives. After meal it is time for the groom to take a wedding train (poizd) and bring his bride to his home. The most joyful, surprising and unexpected things may observe this evening.There are many swordplay wedding party traditions involving bothbody. undersized children adore weddings of their older sister or brothers, because this is the time for them to steal a brides shoe and then demand any ransom for it. The party takes place in a restaurant, cafe, at the home of the bridegroom or bride. All the guests come with gifts. The word Vesillja is derived from fun. The wedding (vesillya) was meant to be fun for the young couple too, but the newlyweds in ancient times did non have the right to drink anything bitter.They ate honey, bread and they had a slim wine for the evening, but nothing more. There is usually a get of ceremonies, the starosta, who plans the party with toasts, endless jokes and games, making sure that every guest is involved. dance continues often until morning. At the end of the wedding party guests sing the birdsong called Mnohaya Lita. It is a song of good wishes and means many happy eld. Time changes, so do traditions. But even today every wedding in Ukraine has the elements of the ancient rituals preserved by people memory.