Wedding in Greek style

The popularity of weddings in the Greek style can only be explained by the fact that in Greece, the wedding celebration is celebrated with the same scope as ours. But for the wedding ceremony in the Greek style, you should think about the many details and traditions.

Let's start with traditions. A week before the wedding in Greece, it is customary to hold parties for the bride and groom: hen and stag parties. It does not matter how exactly these two parties will be organized. The main thing is that both the bride and groom have good fun. But a week later begins the celebration of the wedding. In Greece, they celebrate the wedding for three days. Most often, the celebration begins on Saturday. On this day, a wonderful event is celebrated only with the family. Sunday is the wedding itself. The wedding is scheduled for this day. Also on the second day of the wedding all invited guests come. The third day is a party after the wedding. On this day, the bride is waiting for her to show her devotion to her husband and what kind of mistress she is.

As you can see, the Greek wedding in its scopevery similar to ours. But there are numerous traditions that are unusual for us. If you want your wedding to be in the same style, it is very important to observe all the traditions of Greece.

To begin with, you should start with the outfits of the bride and groom. Traditionally, for a wedding in the Greek style, only a white dress is chosen. Wedding dress in Greek style now findno problem. In any wedding salon you will be offered several models. Wedding dresses in Empire style, which are typical for Greece, will be the best choice. But the veil of the bride should not be a squirrel. The veil in the Greek style should be peach, pink or beige. It is believed that the colored veil drives away the evil spirits.

For the groom, you can choose a simple black suit made from natural fabrics and a light shirt. But still It is better to give preference to costumes of neutral light tones: sand, gray, beige.

Without a bouquet of the bride can not do any wedding. The wedding bouquet in the Greek style should be made up only of white flowers. You can order a bouquet of roses, but it is better to give preference to callas. Also try to use as few green leaves in the bouquet. In Greece, green is considered a mourning.

It is also important to take into account other traditions. So, to the place of the wedding, the bride arrives on the donkey. Then she goes round the church three times. From the donkey the bride is removed by the relative of the groom. The priest accompanies the altar of the bride and groom. During the wedding ceremony, the bride and groom are put on crowns made of precious metals, which are connected with each other by ribbons. Of course, we have such crowns harder to get, so you can do with ordinary wreaths. These crowns the bride and groom do not take off during the wedding feast, however, the ribbon has to be cut. It is accepted that the wedding couple should be kept by a young married couple for the rest of their lives. After the wedding, the young must smash the clay plate on the ground for happiness. Then the young people are congratulated with automobile hooters.

Now it's worth talking about decorating the hall and making a menu for the wedding. Since you have a wedding in the Greek style, it means that The hall should be decorated in the appropriate traditions. It will be good to decorate the hall with columns, clayamphoras, laurel branches. On the tables, use white tablecloths with traditional Greek patterns. Do not forget about the flowers. The hall should be decorated with live colors of yellow, orange and red shades. As mentioned above, there should not be a green color. Arrange all the flowers in amphorae.

And now we turn to the wedding menu. There must be bread on the table. And this is not a simple bread, but cooked with the addition of rosemary, saffron, basil, cinnamon and mint. Flavored herbs and spices should be in all the dishes that you will serve on the table. Also, dishes from fish or seafood are needed, during the preparation of which rosemary and basil were added. From seafood it is possible to prepare mousse, and fish fry or bake with vegetables. Meat is also served on the table. It can be lamb, chicken, beef, pork, rabbit. One of the most famous dishes is Dolmadesse (chopped meat wrapped in grape leaves). You can also serve souvlaki (shish kebab from pork on wooden skewers). About the famous Greek salad everyone knows, of course, that he, too, should be on your wedding table.

But alcoholic drinks should not be served with vodka, but semisweet white wines. From stronger liquors, you can liqueur fromkumquat and metaxu (Greek brandy). Alcoholic drinks on the tables should not stand in bottles, as is customary here, but in clay jugs. By the way, food is also served on clay dishes.

You can not do without a wedding dance. By tradition, the bride and groom start dancing first. Then they are joined by guests who dance, putting their hands on each other's shoulders and forming a circle around the pair.

Another important tradition, which should not be forgotten: at the wedding gifts are given not only to young people. Small gifts in boxes (bonbonniere) young hands to all guests. Usually it's sweets in white sacks.

What can be a Greek wedding without music? Naturally, you can not do without musical accompaniment. The music at the Greek wedding should only be live. The invited musicians play the traditionalGreece music. And here is another tradition associated with the wedding. In the musicians, guests throw small coins. This is so that the bride and groom always have money. Also newlyweds are pasted with money. The money should be given by invited guests. They do this also in order to have money in the family.