Traditional Ukrainian wedding

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.

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. A wedding, as the name indicates, is a joyful and cheerful rite of marriage of young people.

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.
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