Traditionally, the meeting begins with newlyweds zagsovskogo threshold. After the ceremonial wedding guests try first to go outside and lined up in two rows on either side of the porch of a registry office. As soon as the new husband and wife appeared in the doorway, they should be showered with grain of wheat for fertility, small candies for a sweet life and coins for wealth in the family. However, now these ancient rituals joined and new trends, such as the shedding of young confetti, glitter or rose petals from special crackers.
The main action on greeting new family after zagsovskoy ceremony takes place in front of the house or a restaurant, which will host a banquet. When the weather is good - on the street, at bad - on the doorstep or in the lobby institutions in the form of a live band line up guests. In the foreground - the parents of the bride and groom, in the hands of the newly-in-law to be a tray with new glasses filled with wine or champagne, caravans and salt shaker with salt.
In ancient times, was supposed to put on a tray embroidered with his own hammer, but now these embroidered towels can be purchased at specialty bridal salons. Also, if a family of young Orthodox, mother of the bride at the meeting should be kept in the hands of an icon of the Virgin Mary, or a saint Nicholas the Wonderworker - the patron saint of the groom or the bride (ie of the same name).
When the young will come to meet, behind them should not be anyone, only empty road. The bride and groom, as usual, should bow to your parents in the zone. Then the couple break off a piece from the loaf and dip the pieces in salt and then feed them to each other. So symbolically they annoy each other for the last time, after which they must expect a life without quarrels.
Interestingly, in recent years more and more couples are opting for wedding loaf with no salt, and sugar or melted chocolate: to family life was sweet. In any case, no matter what the bread was on the tray, there is a honeymoon is another important sign: whose piece of the loaf will be larger and to dominate in the family.
After the bread with salt newlyweds take their glasses and drink to the bottom of them. Earlier pre polalaglos cross drink if through someone let loose on the bride damage. Today, however, this tradition is followed by no means all. About whipping dishes opinions diverge too. Some couples break glasses happiness immediately, after they drink wine from them. Others drink from these glasses during the whole wedding feast, and hit the glass at the end of the evening. There are those newlyweds who retains his wedding glasses as a keepsake.