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Wedding, Mytilene

Homemade treats and bridal sweets are also well kept in Mytilene, where housewives take advantage of the fruit season to make the famous spoon sweets ...

Wedding, mores and customs

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THE WEDDING SYMBOLS White Wedding Dress White was not always worn at weddings, but was established as the color of the marriage during the Victorian ...

Wedding, Agrinio

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INVITATION The invitation to the marriage of relatives, friends and villagers was done with a red apple, which they were skewering with cloves or ...

Wedding, Crete

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As for Crete, here the wedding holds some days and nights! Raki flows unceasingly, the kserotigana (fried pastry) are at the forefront, as well as ...

Wedding, Thassos

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Marriage in that old age in the village was an important event, a landmark in the life of two people who probably did not know each other and had ...

Wedding, matchmaker (marriage arranger)

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Typically, except for a few cases, marriages were held in matchmaking. Families decided and very often did not ask the people directly concerned. ...

Wedding, the end of the matchmaking

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When the conversation about the dowry was over, favorable, of course, then they all gave their hands, wished and kissed. Immediately the light was on ...

Wedding, the matchmaking agreement

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In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and Saint Procopius, we.................................... ................... ... and ...

Wedding, preperations

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After the end of the matchmaking, the giving of the hands, the composition of the provisional matchmaking agreement, the diadems and the engagement, ...

Wedding, Kyklades

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AMORGOS In beautiful Amorgos, custom says that wrapped pastel bushes or pastel slices are offered on wedding day on lemon leaves. Along with a glass ...

Wedding, Peloponnese

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In the Peloponnese, and especially in the area of Kalamata, the mother-in-law offers diples (traditional fried sweet pastry with honey and nuts) ...

Wedding, Pelion

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Let's take a stroll through the mountain of the Centaurs, Pelion. Here the traditions are well kept, and even for the wedding ceremony. Housewives ...

Wedding, Thrace

Elpiniki Kal

Among the countless Thracian traditions of marriage, the characteristic is the "kouliki", that is, the brioche (sweet bread) of the wedding made by ...

Wedding, Pontian wedding customs

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The wedding in Pontus was not just a pleasant event, but rather a disturbing one, since the mother was now separated from her daughter. The bride's ...

Wedding, customs of Vlach wedding

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On Sunday morning, at the bride's home was taking place a kind of exhibition of her dowry (paea) and her gifts. The quantity and type of dowry judged ...

Wedding, Cypriot wedding customs

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One of the preparations for the Cypriot wedding was the washing of the sheep's hair, from which the bed was made. This hair was washed by the women ...

Wedding, Paramithia of Thesprotia

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In Paramithia of Thesprotia, on the day of the wedding it is customary for the vlamis (the groom's best friend) to leave with friends – an even ...

Wedding, Avgi Lagada, Thessaloniki

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On the day of the wedding, the groom's friends go to his house to shave him and then dress him. After shaving, the process of dressing begins, during ...