Weddings styles. Wedding in European style and in folk

Each pair of newlyweds dreams that the day of marriage is the happiest and most memorable in their life. Preparing for such a significant event, I want to make the wedding not just fun and interesting, but also original. Unique script for the wedding day can be. Today, themed weddings are popular . What it is? What are the styles of wedding decoration ? How to organize a holiday on the chosen subject? This will be discussed in this article. In the photos offered to the attention of readers here, you can see fragments of weddings in different styles.

Theme of the wedding day. What options can there be?

Weddings styles can be different. Themes for the design and implementation of the most important day in the life of a young couple is divided into the following types:

• For a time period (gangster 30's, styli, retro-wedding);
• By country (Indian, Hawaiian, Eastern);
• By color (red, pink, purple, etc.);
• At the venue (forest, beach, garden);
• On books and films (based on the films "James Bond", "Dracula", fairy tales "Alice in Wonderland" and others).
• Natural orientation (sea, chamomile).

Wedding is soon. How to start training?

When the theme of the wedding is chosen, preparations for its conduct begin. It includes such moments:

• Writing a script;
• Drawing up a list of necessary attributes and decor;
• Purchase of all necessary materials for registration of a thematic holiday;
• Approval of the menu;
• Selection of orders;
• The formulation of invitations;
• Approval of the venue of the ceremony and banquet.

More details about the preparation and the day of the wedding in different styles will be discussed in the next part of the article.

Wedding in the European style - refinement and romance

This style of holiday for the bridegroom implies the design of it in a single color scheme. Most often these are light colors: white, milky, pink, lilac. And in this range, everything should be sustained: the bride's bouquet, the newlyweds and guests dresses, the decorations of the banquet hall, invitations, dishes and the like.

The ceremony of marriage takes place most often in the open air - on the beach, in the park, on the boat. The place where the wedding ceremony is held is decorated with an arch of flowers and ribbons. The carpet is carpeted on the ground, on the sides of which are placed garlands woven from living or artificial flowers.

Wedding in the European style begins with the appearance of witnesses from the bride and groom. Each of the newlyweds can have several of them. The bridegroom turns to his witnesses. The children are walking along the path. The girl sprinkles flower petals, the boy carries a casket with wedding rings. Then the bride and her father appear. He leads his daughter to the altar under solemn music. The ceremony of marriage in European countries is conducted by a priest.

European Wedding: what happens after the official part?

After the solemn program, the newlyweds and guests of the holiday are sent to the banquet hall. There are separate tables, decorated with elegant tablecloths and flowerpots. Guests are seated "by interest." Together invite to sit a few married couples. For other tables put idle guys and girls.

The "highlight" of the wedding in the European style is the tradition of handing out to guests bonbonierok - small bags of sweets. These newlyweds thank their relatives and friends for their visit to the holiday. Guests in a specially designated place leave the gifts brought for the newlyweds.

During the banquet, traditional for the European wedding genre are the rite of throwing the bride's bouquet to unmarried girls and the design of the "Wish Books" entries for the young couple from all the participants in the celebration.

Russian folk wedding. How to prepare and hold an event of this genre?

The styles of weddings are different. But the beautiful traditions and rituals of our country inspire many girls and men to enter into a legal marriage in a folk style. What does the preparation for the holiday of such a genre involve and what rituals are performed on this day? This is discussed later.

Morning for the bride begins with the visit of the girlfriends. They help her put on a Russian national dress. By tradition, this action should be accompanied by a ceremony of "mourning" the bride of her maidenhood. The groom, dressed in national clothes, comes with his friends and relatives. It's very beautiful when they arrive on a beautifully decorated carriage with horses. On the threshold of the house they are met by matchmakers on the part of the bride. A young man needs a ransom. He may be asked to do different tasks, ask for money or gifts. The groom should not stint. He needs to fulfill all the conditions. Thus, he proves to the representatives of the bride's side that for the sake of his beloved is ready for anything. He is admitted to the girl's house.

The wedding in the national style continues with the ceremony of the wedding. It is conducted by a priest in the church according to the canons of the Orthodox faith. When leaving the sacred home, the newlyweds are showered with sweets, corn, coins and flower petals. This rite is a symbol of prosperity, prosperity and fertility.

Entertainment and ceremonies taking place at the folk wedding after the solemn part

The newlyweds go to the groom's house, where they are met by parents with bread and salt. The bridegroom takes the bride through the threshold on her hands. This he allegedly deceives the house-owner, who does not want to take a stranger into the house. Then all the participants of the celebration go to the feast.

The decor of the hall is designed in the national style: wooden tables and benches, woven tablecloths and bedspreads, decorations on the walls in the form of horseshoes, in vases, wildflowers.

Styles of weddings of a national orientation assume presence in the menu of dishes and drinks of Russian cuisine. These are pies, pancakes, meat hams and homemade sausages, jelly, kvass, mors, liqueurs, vodka.

Music sounds folk. Well, if it's a live performance. A toast is a man dressed as a buffoon or a rumor. With the guests conduct a variety of competitions and folk games (lapta, blind man's buffets, small towns).

Colorful wedding

This variant of carrying out of a thematic holiday assumes registration of all attributes, dresses, transport and other details in the chosen color scale. For example, newlyweds choose a red wedding style . Preparation for the celebration begins with the production of invitations. They should be red. But it is not necessary that everything be completely of this shade. Dilute red is best white. This applies to all other attributes of the wedding: costumes, capes on chairs, tablecloths, flowers in a bouquet of the bride. Guests should be warned in advance that the holiday will be themed. They also prepare for themselves the outfits of the corresponding scale. Naturally, the wedding cortege will consist of red cars.

In the menu, among others, we offer dishes with red products: tomatoes, strawberries, cherries, etc. The festive cake is decorated with cream in a given range.

Similarly, a wedding of any other color is made out.

Musical wedding styles

Music in such areas as rock, disco, rock'n'roll, classic often becomes an inspiration for holding thematic celebrations on the occasion of marriage. What includes the organization of such an event, consider the example of a rock wedding.

The place of the celebration is a bar or a club. The musical accompaniment of the party should, of course, be a group performing songs in this genre. Invitations for guests are decorated with a picture of a guitar, a motorcycle and supplemented with materials associated with rock attributes: pieces of leather, rivets, chains. The tuple consists of bikes and a cabriolet on which the newlyweds are traveling. Honeymoon suits include leather elements, wristbands, chain bracelets, rivets. The wedding in the style of rock involves an entertainment program consisting of fun, slightly even hooligan competitions, karaoke.