ns, which we celebrate nowadays. And now wed like to tell about very old traditions of wedding. They are very interesting and it seems to me that even not all young Ukrainian people know them.
Pupil 2: Wedding is the ceremony of marriage with accompaining festivities. In old times in Ukraine there were cases when a girl proposed herself to a young Cossack as a wife . When it happened it was a great sin to turn the girl with her match-makers out of the house. In Ukraine the girls of good name and reputation were respected highly. Such girl could save the life of a Cossack sentenced to death just saying He will marry me, let him go! The wedding parties were celebrated in different ways. If a young man asked in a marriage, the match-makers went to the girls house to talk to her parents. The girl could not agree and present a young man a harbuz ( a pumpkin in English ). The pretender had no right to drop it anywhere and everyone in the village knew that a girl refused to get married. But as a sign of an agreement a girl tied the match-makers up with rushnyks( wedding- towels ) and put a headscarf around a young mans hand.
Pupil 3: Before the wedding on Friday the parents of a bride and a bridegroom invited the loaf-bakers- the women who are respected by the community for their perfect family life because only a person who is happy in the family life can give love and happiness for young pair. On Sunday morning a bridegroom with his groomsmen came to the brides house. The parents blessed a bride and a bridegroom with an icon. Then they went to the church for wedding. After that everybody went to the brides house to have the wedding dinner. Of course, we told only about the several wedding customs because there a lot of them in Ukraine. And some of them are kept
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