Wedding a ceremony accompanying an act of marriage. In the early stages of social development period of the matrilineal clan wedding was a simple ritual. It became elaborate during the patriarchal period, when monogamy and patrilocal residence became established.
The culminating moment in the wedding ceremonies of all peoples is the bride passage, usually by vehicle, from the house of the parents to that of the bridegroom. This act represents a woman acceptance into a new family and, as a rule, is accompanied by the exchange of gifts, a lavish meal, and festivities. Also taking part in a wedding are the relatives of the bride and groom and others, for example, matchmakers and groomsmen.
Wedding traditions vary widely. Often there is a staged abduction of the bride by the groom and his friends, which is met with the feigned resistance of the bride and her kin. Types of welded joints and welds used in arc welding: (a) butt joint, (b) T-joint, (c), (d), and (e) lap joints, (f) corner joint; (1) butt weld, (2) fillet weld for T-joint, (3) longitudinal fillet weld for lap joint, (4) end fillet weld for lap joint, (5) rivet weld for lap joint, (6) weld for corner joint
force. The bride-price was known as veno among some European peoples and kalym among Mongolians and Turkic peoples. The of the bride was often dramatized in the wedding ceremony. The custom of looking over prospective brides was also introduced.
Many wedding rituals are associated with religious or magical beliefs and are supposed to protect the newlyweds from spirits and illness. In prerevolutionary times in the Caucasus, the mountains of Tadzhikistan, and the area that is now Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, fire and the hearth (the protector of the home) were worshiped. A woman passage from one family to another included her formal leavetaking from the hearth in her husband home. At Slavic and Caucasian weddings the newlyweds are showered with grain, flour, hops, nuts, and other foods, a tradition symbolizing abundance and good fortune. Special clothing for the bride, groom, and other participants in a wedding became an important part of the wedding ceremony.
At a certain stage of development, every society has its own traditional wedding ritual, which incorporates all forms of folk art, including dramatizations, music, singing, dancing, and games. In developed religions, the wedding usually combines a religious ceremony with traditional folk rituals, the original meaning of which is often not known.
In a socialist society, weddings are freed from church rites and to a significant extent from outdated rituals associated with religion and superstition. They become celebrations marking the beginning of a new socialist family. In the USSR, the tradition of the solemn registration of marriages in wedding palaces and marriage registration halls has been very popular since the 1960 E. i proiskhozhdenie svadebnoi obriadnosti. In Sb. Muzeia antropologii i etnografii, vol. 8. M. Proiskhozhdenie i istoriia belorusskoi svadebnoi obriadnosti. Minsk, 1956.
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