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To pour water over someone or even push them into a river, to gift Easter eggs, embroidered scarves, and shirts — this is how the path to marriage began for our ancestors.
How could one refuse suitors besides offering a pumpkin? Why is the request to drink water not as innocent as it may seem? What does a cracked wedding loaf foretell, and what is a “wedding tree”? How many ritual breads are needed for an authentic wedding, and whom should the bride invite to dance first? And why did the bride have to unhitch horses or drink from a sieve?
In this book, ethnologist Lesia Horoshko-Pohoretska describes all stages of a traditional Ukrainian wedding — from courtship and matchmaking to the bride’s move into the groom’s home and the tying of the married woman’s head covering. Readers will not only learn how a traditional Ukrainian wedding took place but also be able to recreate some of its customs.