Ancient Greece is a country full of myths and legends, it is known as the cradle of ancient civilizations in Europe, their unique wedding customs are unique national characteristics. Now, with the Greeks a popular religious Chiang, full of local characteristics of the wedding, giving the left a very deep impression.
Had only married in a church
There was a long period of time, only in the Greek church wedding was only recognized as legal marriage. Since the Kingdom of Greece was proclaimed in 1832 after the Greek Orthodox Church has been regarded as the state religion, the church is 100 years of Greek men and women can not change the wedding venue. Countries have announced legal form, and only married in a church, in order to receive legal recognition.
However, since the last century, 70 years, the Greek Orthodox Church of decline, requires secular marriage is growing, the Greek government on July 18, 1982 published a decree to the secular way of way of marriage and religious marriage have equal legal status, thus ending 150 years of Greek religion only way to be considered legally married to the traditional approach.
16-year-old bride, legal recognition
Although the legal age of marriage in Greece is 18 years old, but in some cases, if the parents agree, but also non-mandatory marriage, young people under the age of 18 can still get married. Thus, in the Greek national marriage statistics, there are some very young bride. All of Greece was a sensation, "16-year-old girl to her 20-year-old and long-married man," the event, but also because she herself and parental consent was legally recognized. Love is free, marriage is sacred, no one can interfere. Especially in the myth of the country filled with love, love is the most noble and holy.
The traditional wedding dress and wedding rings are still popular
Today, the wedding dress has been varied. Especially in light of the theme of the wedding is different from non-Greeks do not wear a wedding dress. However, if you choose wedding, they will choose the most traditional style - the white robe, worn on the head with a veil and the wreath, so dress to look like the bride as beautiful Athena holy modesty. The bride's clothing is relatively simple and much can be black or white suit. Of course, in some remote areas, the Greeks would choose to wear national costume to the wedding.
For the choice of wedding rings, people still prefer the traditional style of diamond ring, and marriage to the ring. In each other's rings engraved with their name inside, to show faithful love. The difference with other European countries, the Greek wedding ring choice, we must choose both men and women together. This can also be from one side to examine whether the two sides congenial tastes, there is no common ground. The texture of the ring, choose the new gold is still more.
Auspicious day to marry in March
Greece attaches great importance to the wedding, especially the wedding scene of busy rural areas, form a grand, to be fully prepared in advance. In rural areas, mountainous areas, most people love select the slack season of spring in March or a Sunday wedding, the people's traditional values, this time Sunday is the wedding of the "auspicious", can bring joy and happiness marriage. A week before the formal wedding, the bride and groom to invite some cute little girl little boy to form the good news of the team, dressed in beautiful clothing holding invitations and sweets, drums and gongs to the relatives of both men and women to invite friends, neighbors right-left homes, celebrities and even the neighboring village representatives will attend the wedding. Both men and women of the family were preparing for the intense, sometimes even the whole village to mobilize the neighbors who came to help. Because the wedding was held in the woman's home, her parents except for the bride preparing for the wedding costumes, comes with a dowry, but also to prepare the banquet food. More meticulous bride's wedding clothes, wearing white on the outside of prime length skirt sewn by unmarried girls.
Wedding must eat bread
Greeks love to eat bread, bread, wedding essential, but used a unique method of baking. According to the traditional practice of eating the bread for the wedding, and surface water is taken by several beautiful girls come clean spring water or river water, firewood is used for baking bread, a few guys toting Guqin, sing and dance get Park return of dry twigs. In the local view, the wedding eat this bread, the couple can live a life of affluence.
Ritual over, the bride and groom holding hands, with both parents and guests enter the banquet hall, with a splendid dinner in honor of guests. Greek wedding is very rich, with the exception of local flavor, there will be Southeast Asia hand pilaf, Chinese fried spring rolls, hollow pasta in Italy, France, snail dishes, simply become a world tasting flavor. Greek cuisine, the most troublesome is the grape leaf roll, the dish cooked by the bride.
Flowers normally open undefeated seasons
Greeks love flowers, wedding flowers usually in full bloom, fragrant, held in the courtyard. In Greece, usually the groom's godfather, as wedding guests. Guests are often served by the best man now, and its role is to assist the bride and groom wear a crown (wreath with white and gold, from everlasting flowers, or gold or silver with the symbol of love wrapped in the branches and rattan woven).
Crowned, the new people around three times around the altar. Other people attending the wedding may read "the Bible", holding candles, placed in the crown after the wedding in a special box. To ensure sweetness of married life, the Greek bride on wedding day, you can plug a piece of sugar in her glove, on behalf of the sweet into marriage.
Greeks love to dance the traditional wedding dance to entertain guests. Wedding ceremony, one of the program is the cantor choir instructed the groom to take good care and protection of his wife, bride and groom would tap the feet to show respect. New yarn will be wrapped with the book's flat peach dipped in sugar, which together with flowers and distributed to guests, to symbolize abundance and happiness.
Implies a large broken pieces fell safe dish
Edge to drink while eating guests talk frequently drank to congratulate the newlyweds. Sometimes, the wedding were among the folk artists who heard and played with ancient instruments joyful wedding dance. Guests have left the meeting with bride and groom dancing. According to the ancient Greek custom wedding after the end of Carnival, people enjoy the dance, both folk dance, ballroom dancing also. Skip to the happy, someone raised his plates fell to the floor, people chanted "Obama", a wedding to throw dozens of plates. Greek, "Let's throw" is "Let joy" means. Midnight until the end of Carnival, people will be the bride and groom into the bridal chamber end of the wedding.
Cash is the most popular gifts
Giving the newlyweds a gift has always been a Greek tradition, but also the degree of kinship according to the distance may be. Now, before the wedding, guests are usually asked whether the couple should give them a gift or gift amount. In most cases, many couples prefer to accept cash instead of gifts.
However, this is still a very sensitive issue, usually only in private discussions. And among the guests did not know the type or amount of cash gifts, which would also avoid the embarrassment between them. Sometimes with the wedding invitation, gifts will be provided with a list of new items needed are listed, so that guests at designated shops to buy, or to their bank card scored a certain amount.
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