Armenian wedding

I looked at the newlyweds and understood: miracles happen. The bride is 38, the groom is 41. Acquainted a month ago and can no longer live without each other. He lives in Italy, she is in Armenia. Today they have a wedding. A real Armenian wedding in Yerevan, and in a month it will be exactly the same in Italy.

In Armenia, the customs of the wedding dictate the church, and in Italy everything will be according to the Italian tradition. Love and happiness to the newlyweds.

I will not tell you how they met. I will only describe how the Armenian wedding with Italian relatives is going on.

In the morning in the house of the bride pre-wedding commotion. The tables are set, waiting for the groom. By tradition, he must take the bride from his father's house.

And at 12 o'clock the yard of the house where the bride lives, read the signals of the cars. In the courtyard the first smoothly enters a white limousine. From the limousine comes the groom in a snow-white suit with a huge bouquet in his hands. From neighboring cars go relatives, godfather and musicians. Armenian national music plays: zurna, clarinet, dvol (hand drum).

Several women with beautifully decorated white wedding baskets begin to dance right in the courtyard. A few minutes later the relatives of the bride come out into the courtyard to greet guests. They enter into a dance dance. They have gifts in their hands. Each wedding basket in the dance is exchanged for a beautiful gift.

At the door of the bride's apartment there is a delay: the bride's younger brother closed the door. After a short trade, the godfather repays a fairly impressive sum. Now you can go into the apartment and sit down at a table laid out in advance.

And at this time the female half of the groom's relatives in the closed room dresses up the bride, while wishing the newlyweds happiness, many children and other benefits.

The most important person at the Armenian wedding, after the bride and groom, is the godfather, who, along with the godmother, leads the whole ceremony. These are the customs of the Armenian wedding - the godfather also makes a very expensive present.

The wedding celebration in the bride's house does not last long, because you have to make it to the wedding in the church, and then to the restaurant.

In general, the Armenian wedding, like any other, consists of certain stages: the house of the bride, the groom's house, the church, the restaurant - this is the route of all the movements that day.

An hour later the wedding procession leaves the courtyard of the bride's house. There are now two limousines: a bride and a groom.

The procession is sent to the church. Wedding in the Armenian church is a special sacrament. The bride and the groom submissively bow their heads before the altar, on their heads the crown: the priest declares them husband and wife. After accepting congratulations, photographing, the wedding procession, which they meet at the exit, goes to the restaurant to celebrate the most important day in their life.

Toasts, originally traditional shish kebab, presented to tables with special chic, congratulations, gifts, dances ... According to custom, the Armenian wedding "plants" seven generations of relatives at its table, although today everything depends on the possibilities of the groom.

The feast lasts until late at night. The bride and groom give out small souvenirs to all guests. Believe it says that if you collect seven souvenirs from weddings, then you will find your half and you will find a family.

In ancient times, the bride, veiled, all the celebration sat at the table without getting up, and only at the very end of the wedding did she have the right to dance a single wedding Armenian dance. During this dance, she collected gifts, and these were mostly jewels. However, these times are long in the past - today the bride is having fun on a par with the groom, dancing.

Then begins cutting a huge wedding cake.

That's all. The holiday for the bride and groom is over. They have plane tickets, they go on a honeymoon, and guests will continue to have fun until the morning. The Italian bride of the Armenian bride will celebrate the wedding and in her homeland, in Italy, where they are going to live a long and happy life.