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Mykola Bondarevskyy "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.[1]
V. Tropinin "Wedding in Kukavka in Podillia"Josyp Brandt "Wedding of cossacks"
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 dowryMykola Pymonenko "In-Laws"
Post-wedding cycle:
feast.[4]
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^Боряк О. О. Україна, Держава: Обряди Життєвого Циклу // Енциклопедія історії України: Україна—Українці. Кн. 1 / Редкол.: В. А. Смолій (голова) та ін. НАН України. Інститут історії України. — К.: В-во «Наукова думка», 2018. — 608 с.
^проф. Є. Онацький [in Ukrainian] (1958). "Літери В — Ґ" (PDF). Українська мала енциклопедія. Vol. 1. 16 кн. (II ed.). Буенос-Айрес: Накладом Адміністратури УАПЦ в Аргентині. p. 142. Весілля.
^Дошлюбні, шлюбні стосунки. Весілля // Лепеха Т. В. Українознавство: Навчальний посібник. — К.: Вид. центр „Просвіта", 2005. — С. 258. — 376 с. ISBN 966-8547-37-3.
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