Cretan wedding

Cretan wedding

Marriage in the villages of Crete is a big event. Preparations began several days ago. the maidens Friday gathered in the house of the bride and prepare the dowry and say serenades for each type separately.

The dowry is transported in procession to the house of spouses, with accompaniment of the lyre and the lute and song. Together they reach the house of the groom and the unmarried girls pave the bridal bed after throwing over rice and money.

Î&#x;n Sunday afternoon, young people adorn the groom and the girls the bride and when everything is ready, started for the crown. Firstly, it goes the groom accompanying for two young men, while the procession goes ahead the lyre and the lute player. When they reach the house of the bride, the groom start a mantinada( Cretan song). After entering the groom in the house, greet and kiss their parents, get their wish, offer flower and fillets the bride. At the same time heard the shots or patched joy. Then, they start to the church.

After the wedding ceremony, they dance outside the church, Then, all start to the groom's house, from where they pass their flying rice and flowers.

When they reach, the bride gets honey from the mother and put a cross on the door, to make their life sweeter. After a pomegranate flying powerfully in the house, to scatter like pomegranate happiness at home. She comes first and after the groom and simultaneously called couplets. After all, it follows the wedding table with rice (called in Crete gamopilafo) or spaghetti with cheese and boiling and the party holds up to one week. The leap year and May don’t organize weddings. On the same day, in the same church does not have to become two marriages, as in the same house two marriages in the same year. So believe and have bad observers in Crete.