Traditional Ukrainian wedding
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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]
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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]