What are the traditional wedding ceremonies in the West?

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Nowadays, many young people are more enthusiastic about traditional Western weddings. What are the traditional wedding customs in the West? Do new people understand? May as well study it today.

1. Western traditional wedding etiquette

1. The bride should wear gloves

Gloves are a token of love. In the Middle Ages, many gentlemen gave gloves to their lovers to propose marriage. If the other party wears those gloves when they go to church on Sunday, it means that she has agreed to his marriage proposal.

2. The bride must wear a veil

Initially, the bride's veil symbolized youth and purity. Christian brides wear a white veil to show purity and celebration, or a blue veil to show purity like the Virgin Mary.

3. The bride wears a white dress

Since Roman times, white has been a symbol of celebration. In the Queen Victoria era from 1850 to 1900, white was also a symbol of wealth and happiness. Later, it strengthened the meaning of holiness and loyalty and formed the lofty status of the pure white wedding dress. For remarried women, they can use colours other than white, such as pink or lake blue, to distinguish them from their first marriage.

4. Special custom wedding cake

Since Roman times, cakes have been an indispensable part of festival ceremonies. In that era, at the end of the wedding, people would break a loaf of bread on the bride's head. Wheat, the material used to make bread, symbolizes fertility. The bread crumbs represent luck, and all the guests are struggling to pick them up.

According to the traditional customs of the Middle Ages, the bride and groom should kiss across the cake. Later, the imaginative baker decorated the cake with icing, which became the beautiful and delicious wedding cake today.

2. Western traditional wedding taboos

1. White wedding dresses must not be paired with red shoes, because red shoes represent jumping into the fire pit, and red things such as red flowers, red belts, and red bottoms cannot be worn, because white represents purity, while red is the opposite. White wedding dresses are matched with white, gold or silver shoes.

2. The bride in a wedding dress should not bow, nor should it be picked up and walked in Europe. The bride maintains a reserved arrogance during the wedding to enjoy the wedding is a kind of etiquette. If you have to bow, you must take a gentle bow. , Instead of being sincere as some hosts ridiculed that the bride bends over 90 degrees, because now most of them are shallow-breasted wedding dresses, and it is impolite to the guests once they are gone.

3. The wedding dress should not be equipped with group support, the hem cannot be shaken too much, and the height of the dress should be exquisite.

4. When wearing the wedding dress, the bride's etiquette should be to take one step, stop, and then take the next step... The gestures and the position of the bouquet are also particular.