User:Summer in California/Традиційне українське весілля
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Traditional Ukrainian wedding – is a wedding in Ukrainian folk everyday life – a complex mixture of rites of different days, in which elements of the ancestral exogamic era, Greek-Byzantine religious-mystical influences and newer Ukrainian ones are distinguished.[1] The main acts:
- Matchmaking (in which the consent of the bride to marriage is ian important moment)
- Engagement
- Decorating a hiltse (Ukrainian ritual tree)
- Baking of a korovai (traditional Ukrainian bread, most often served at weddings, where it has great symbolic meaning)
- Inviting guests
- Bachelorette party
- Church ceremony
- Wedding train (a solemn procession accompanying the groom to the bride)
- Pereyma (overcoming obstacles on the way to a bride)
- Untying the bride’s braid
- Giving out a korovai
- Moving the bride to of the groom
- "Treating a bride" – the bride was brought to the house of her in-laws, and after sitting in the home altar, she was given a piece of clay from the oven, and her wimple was thrown on the oven
- «Komora» (Englisch for «larder») – the place of the newlyweds' first wedding night
- Perezva – After the first wedding night, the bride's relatives went or went to the groom's house with the appropriate ritual songs for a treat.
- Bringing out of the altar.[1] In later times, the ritual was greatly simplified.[1]
The wedding rite in the system of family rites, as a component of the spiritual culture of Ukrainians, is one of the most ancient and complex [2]. A wedding, as the name indicates, is a joyful and cheerful rite of marriage of young people [3].
A traditional Ukrainian wedding includes three mandatory cycles: pre-wedding, wedding and post-wedding, each of which consists of separate ceremonies.
Pre-wedding cycle:
- matchmaking
- umovyny / ohliadyny – acquaintance with the groom’s household, which took place shortly after a successful matchmaking
- engagement
Wedding cycle:
- bachelorette party
- baking shyshky
- baking a korovai
- «Posad» of the newlyweds – the place at the table where the bride and groom sit during the wedding
- giving gifts
- braiding and covering the bride
- transportation of the dowry
Post-wedding cycle:
- feast [4].