In translation from the ancient Slavonic wedding means "heavenly deed of the Gods". If it is detailed - "sva" means heaven, "d" - act, "ba" - God. So it turns out that wedding ceremonies and customs can not be insignificant under any circumstances, no matter who the bride and groom are.
Modern wedding
If our ancestors pagans married at the oak, fixing the bonds under the blessing of the spirits of the forest, then today there is nothing more natural than the bureaucratic registration of marriage in the registry office.
At the same time, modern wedding rites and customs represent some kind of "exotic" mixture of Slavic (including pagan and Christian wound) traditions, and modern ways of walking ("by the people and the pier, and for the wedding"), which boil down to banquet halls with a lot of hot drinks.
The meaning remains the same - the louder the wedding is, the more happiness and understanding will be in family life.
Rites with bread
The most popular Russian wedding ceremony and custom is associated with the caravan. The tradition associated with the presence of a caravan at festivals, comes to the very first stages of Christianity among the Slavs. He was born in Italian Catholics.
Today the loaf is present even at the most modern weddings. They are exchanged for the families of the bride and groom as a sign of consent to the bondage, the matchmakers are also changing their loaves, and at the very celebration of the wedding,
Bind the Lovers
A popular wedding tradition is related items symbolizing forever the bonds of the spouses. They often connect two bottles of champagne, from which young people need to pour into glasses, and drink the remaining contents of the bottles on the first anniversary of the wedding (one bottle), and the birth of the first-born (the second bottle).
On the table in front of the young couple are tied related objects - cutlery, glasses, connected symbolic dolls, imitating the bride and groom.