Meeting with a loaf of young people - a beautiful tradition or a relic of the past?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Where did this Russian tradition come from - meeting with a loaf of young people? What does she mean? How to organize it correctly? We will answer all questions in this article.

Let's go back with you a few centuries ago. Russian village. Walking wedding. The meeting of the young with the loaf is held at the end of the feast by the headman. The newlyweds received the largest pieces, then their parents and closest relatives. Coins were baked into the base of the bread, and it was handed to the musicians. The children got the rest. There used to be a rule - received a loaf from young people - give back money or another gift useful in everyday life.

Well, the meeting with the loaf of young people originated in Russia in the 19th century and evolved steadily. In a modern reading, she looks like this: at the place where the feast will take place, guests line up in a "corridor". The newlyweds drive up and pass through it into the hall. Along the way, guests clapped, showered the young with rose petals, confetti, rice, grains, or coins - whatever you like. If the celebration is in winter or in inclement weather, move this action indoors. Next, the parents of the young meet with the loaf. The groom's mother holds a loaf in her hands on a smarttowel, and the father of the bride - glasses of champagne or any other drink. In the absence of one of the parents or in case of their unwillingness to take part in the ceremony, it is possible to make the meeting be conducted by two mothers or another woman who raised him stood instead of the groom's mother. Since ancient times, the loaf was a sign of accepting a bride into a new family, which is why the mother-in-law holds it, who at the same time can utter, for example, the following words:

"Congratulations, our dear children! Accept this loaf as a gift! Let your house be warm, which this bread keeps, and prosperity, the symbol of which it is! Advice to you and love!".

Say words from the bottom of your heart, no need to read a long speech from a piece of paper - you will still have the opportunity to say it later, at the banquet. Meeting with a loaf of young people should be relaxed and relaxed.

After that, options are possible - the bride and groom break or bite, pinch off or break off a piece, s alt it (with the parents' words "annoy each other for the last time") and eat it, treating each other. They quench their thirst with a drink and break glasses "for good luck". This is where the meeting with the loaf of young people ends, everyone goes to the wedding hall.

We do not recommend meeting with the loaf with icons. Usually young people were blessed with them before leaving the bride's house before the wedding. Here they are inappropriate, especially if there was no wedding.

Dear brides and grooms!Remember that the wedding is your day and everything should be the way you like it. You can make changes to this tradition or skip it altogether.

The wedding loaf can be held by the mother of the bride, or even the fathers of the newlyweds. Loaf can be replaced with any other dish - for example, young people can give out spring rolls - "tell fortunes for the future." What stuffing got - such and life will be. Preferably caught with sweet raspberries.

Parents can symbolically give something to the young as a sign of entry into family life - a hammer and a rolling pin, for example.

At the end of the corridor, guests can simply release balloons or butterflies, cut a red ribbon or drink from one goblet. An experienced toastmaster will beat all this in accordance with the style of your wedding and your wishes.