We call wedding to religious or civil ceremony through which human beings celebrate the beginning of marriage. The wedding will formalize the union between two people before an external authority, which will regulate and regulate the procedure and will also generate contractual commitments between the two parties that subscribe to it.
Religious or civil ceremony through which the marriage is celebrated
The wedding ceremony is composed of several parts, which may vary from one rite to another, in any case, the most traditional are the following: presentation to the authority that celebrates it, be it a priest, at the religious wedding or a judge, in civil, demonstration of the bride and groom for contracting the contractual relationship, exchange of alliances and nuptial vows.
Meanwhile, a separate paragraph, they deserve the infinity of traditions and superstitions that exist around weddings, especially in the case of religious celebrations ... then we will deal with some of the most popular ...
Rites, uses and customs
The attire that the bride and groom will wear turns out to be one of the key and most relevant issues of any wedding together with the choice of the venue for it.
The bride must wear a wedding dress, generally in white, although in recent times we have seen the rite transgressed by using other colors, although yes, a bride should never wear black, because color is closely linked to mourning.
But yes, in this path of innovation that is lived at the behest of wedding dresses, today you can see the most avant-garde attire to the most classic, that is, for today's brides everything goes in terms of design and colors. Except of course the color black, no one will ever come up with that madness no matter how the decades go by and it evolves.
In the case of the groom, the traditional is the use of jaquet, or failing that, a classic evening dress, which does not usually go beyond the traditional blue, gray or black colors.
In the bride, in addition to the dress, there are other elements that cannot be missing and that make up her attire and presentation, such is the case of a bouquet that she will carry in her hands, which will accompany her during the celebration of the formal wedding and then in the The party will take center stage because there is a rite that instructs the bride to throw it with her back to a group of women who will stand behind her, who will have to stop it when she throws it.
Tradition says that whoever takes it will be the next woman to marry, for example, it is that wedding guests who are single, divorced or widowed should approach this ritual, why not ...
Another issue that is part of the bride's styling is the hairstyle, it is as looked at as the dress, while there are usually some conventions about it, such as: loose or collected hair that can be accompanied by a headdress of flowers , a tiara, among other accessories.
Godparents, that the groom does not see the bride before the wedding, and gifts ...
Both boyfriend and girlfriend must choose at least a godfather and godmother who will have the mission of accompanying them during the formal celebrationPositions that are usually assumed by the respective parents, that is, the bride enters the church hand in hand with her father, while the groom waits for her at the altar with her mother who is also a godmother. The role of the bride's godfather occupies a special role in the celebration since he will be in charge of entering the church by the arm, while the groom awaits her at the altar with the priest and the other godparents.
A condition to respect, whatever the rite, is that the groom does not see the bride before the day of the wedding, much less her dress, the fact that he sees her or her dress is an indicator of bad luck for marriage, or for now that is what most of the superstitions that revolve around weddings indicate.
Wedding gifts are also a fundamental part of this celebration, friends, family members and all those invited to a wedding celebration should entertain the bride and groom by giving them a gift, generally objects and pieces related to the new home that they will open.
Nowadays it is customary for the bride and groom to open a wedding list in a furniture business, electronic devices or gift shops in general, so that the guests can choose the gift they want to make according to their possibilities.
And also a modality that has become very fashionable in these times as a consequence that most of the bride and groom already live together so they already have a home armed with furniture and appliances, is the opening of a bank account in which the guests can deposit the value that they want and can, and then the couple will use those funds for their honeymoon, to hire a trip, or to cover the expenses that it entails.
