A wedding in the Russian style will allow not only to have fun and extraordinary spending this day, but also to remember old traditions. A wedding in the Russian style allows you to celebrate this event in the best folk traditions. Be sure to include interesting ancient rituals in the celebration program. It is better to adhere to customs and traditions in order to get a real wedding in the Russian style.
A wedding in the Russian style will take place in the best traditions, if you get acquainted with the history of this celebration. In the old days, parents were looking for a couple for their son or daughter. Young people had to tie the knot with a person whom they themselves did not choose.
When the time came to marry, matchmakers were sent to the girl. It was a holiday for both families. But if the bride's parents did not agree, they could refuse. If they agree, then after that a conspiracy was appointed.
The date of the wedding and wedding was discussed at it, and other issues were discussed. Nowadays, young people marry for love, and the tradition of matchmaking no longer exists. But if you decide to hold a wedding in the Russian style, then you can carry out this ancient ceremony. The parents of the groom and his friends can act as matchmakers.
You need to dress festively, take gifts for the bride's parents and for herself and on the appointed day to visit. Then such matchmaking can be combined with a discussion of pressing issues, negotiate the date of the wedding, the place of its holding, and calculate the costs that lie ahead.
Earlier in Russia there was also a semblance of a bachelorette party, but on this day the girls did not drink alcohol, but wondered. You can take this tradition into service. Prepare everything in advance for fortune telling and carry out this rite. Previously, this was done at night in the bath. Now you can also choose this time of day, but in a different room, where there are no strangers.
But the groom had to wash in the bath alone during his "bachelor party" and not talk to anyone until the wedding day.
Wedding in Russian folk style - venue
This issue needs to be resolved in advance. If you have a house in the village or a summer cottage and you can convert these places for a celebration, then this will be an excellent solution. There is a lot of space here, and you can set the tables right on the street, then you won't have to clean the house after the holiday.
To protect yourself from wind and possible rain, it is better to make a canopy in advance or use a portable gazebo for this. If you do not have such items, drive in iron pipes or bars around the perimeter, connect them at the top with wire. Stretch a fabric between the bars that does not allow sediment to pass through.
If there is an opportunity to rent a country estate or part of a camp site, the buildings of which are created in the Russian style, then you can settle down here.
If the hall is already decorated in Russian style, then you will need to add small accessories and you can celebrate. It is good if the tables and chairs are made of natural materials - wood. If not, then you need to sew the chair covers from burlap or similar fabric.
Better to lay linen or cotton tablecloths. Plates should be pretty simple too. Each chair should be decorated with a bunch of wild or simple flowers. You can place baskets that will decorate the interior. Willow decorations also look good. See how you can do them.
To do this, you need:
- willow branches;
- secateurs;
- wire;
- scissors.
Cut the willow branches with the pruning shears. Remove the leaves from them. If the festival is in the spring, leave the top buds. Stick the rods into the ground to hold them in place. You will need to braid them with other branches in a checkerboard pattern. Thus, only a small part needs to be braided so that this decorative element is assembled into a single whole, and the branches do not crumble. You can also use wire for this.
Make several of these decorative items and place them near the wall, attaching to it. Thus, you can decorate a house or a summer cottage if you are going to celebrate a wedding in the Russian style there.
These indoor spaces are perfect for celebrations during the cold season. If the wedding is in the summer, then you can celebrate it not only in the courtyard of your own house, but also by choosing a suitable meadow for this in the forest.
It is important to call guests correctly. To do this, you need to make postcards in advance and hand them over to the invitees.
How to make Russian style wedding invitations?
It is very interesting to make such invitations on birch bark and spin them in the form of scrolls. You can cut out invitations in the form of nesting dolls and hand them over. If you have design paper, then print invitations on this text and fold the cards in half.
Since a Russian wedding is fun, the next workshop will show you how to make wedding invitations in this style.
To make such an invitation, you need to take:
- velvet red paper;
- design paper or other, where there will be painting under Khokhloma;
- coated paper;
- a piece of red paper;
- meter red organza;
- white cardboard or designer pearl paper;
- Scotch;
- scissors;
- glue gun;
- invitation text.
Before printing the text of the wedding invitation, make a font in the old Russian style. In Russia, it was customary to highlight the capital letter in red. The printed text must be glued with double-sided tape on a sheet of red velvet paper. To get beautiful fields, you need to retreat around the perimeter from each side by 5 mm.
Glue the designer paper on which the Khokhloma ornament is applied to this invitation, but so that a beautiful frame is visible.
You need to glue the future postcard on paper, leave a beautiful 2 mm frame on all sides, and cut off the excess. Glue this element to a white cardboard sheet, backing off 4 mm on each side.
All that remains is to tie the invitation with a ribbon and hand it over.
You can tie red beads to the invitations, which symbolize women's jewelry in Russia. If you wish, make postcards in the form of a painted plate, a bear. You can make a box out of cardboard that looks like a birch bark and put the invitation there.
If you want guests to come dressed in Russian costumes, please indicate this dress code in the invitation. If they do not have such outfits, then you can rent the costumes or sew them in advance. To do this faster, it is enough to make accessories: belts, wreaths, artificial flowers for caps.
It is also necessary to think over the outfits for the bride and groom. Of course, attire should also be in the national style. For the bride, you can sew a sundress, but to make it smart - decorated with decorative stones, sequins or embroidered with beads. You can combine this outfit with the bride's wedding dress. Make a high-waisted sundress. On the top of the shelf, you need to embroider flowers using red and green threads.
This dress is white, with a wide belt in perfect harmony with it. A flower decoration that a girl attaches to her head will also look great. Use red in the costumes for the bride, as it symbolized beauty in Russia.
In red tones, make a bouquet for the girl. It consists of apples, mountain ash, roses of this color. Frame this masterpiece with fern branches or thuja branches.
A young man can be dressed in a beautiful shirt. Create a zip at the front or a classic blouse. It is not difficult for a man to sew such a spacious apparel with his own hands, and trim the neckline with a braid of the corresponding pattern. The belt should be in harmony with it, as well as the trims on the sleeves and at the bottom.
Almost every man has black trousers, the groom can wear them to look proper.
How to decorate a table for a wedding in Russian style - photo
You can rent a restaurant made in Russian style. If there are no funds for this, then create a similar environment in your private house or in a spacious apartment. It is enough to put wooden tables or made of another material and cover them with white linen tablecloths, trimmed with or without red braid. You will make cloth napkins if you cut rectangles from this material, hem them.
It is also easy to create towels with your own hands. If you know how and love to embroider, then use Russian folk ornament and decorate them below in this way. If you do not have this opportunity, then you can buy lace red fabric, cut out small fragments from it and sew them on as decoration. Fluff the bottom of the towels by pulling out the transverse threads to get such a fringe.
Antique dishes are now on sale. It can be ceramic, clay, wood. Use one so that the wedding in Russian style is appropriate.
Entertaining details will greatly decorate and refresh the table. They can be made in the form of swans, which symbolize the strong bond and loyalty of the young spouses. You can put nesting dolls on the tables, at the same time turning them into decoration attributes and containers for small gifts to guests. You can decorate the table so that the guests then take decorative horseshoes with them, which should bring happiness. Sweets will surely like the cockerels on a stick, which have long been loved to feast on in Russia.
To make the decoration attribute shown in the first photo, you will need:
- cockerels on a stick;
- cloth napkins;
- beads.
If you don't have ready-made lollipops or want to create the most authentic setting for a Russian-style wedding celebration, then make them yourself from sugar, water and a little vinegar. The mass is poured into special molds, and wooden sticks are inserted there. It is better to wrap the cooled candies in thin transparent paper such as cellophane so that they do not melt. Roll the napkin into a roll and place the lollipop on top of it. Tie up this beauty with beads.
In the second photo you see a sign that says "Russian food". It will also create the right atmosphere. It would be nice to place at least a few small samovars on the tables, decorating them with bundles of bagels. Such dryers need to be strung on a thread or twine and the ends of each string must be tied.
What to serve at a Russian wedding?
A Russian wedding is characterized by many hearty and simple dishes. This could be:
- baked pig or goose;
- pickled or pickled cucumbers and tomatoes;
- boiled potatoes with butter and herbs;
- cabbage soup or borscht;
- aspic;
- loaves;
- dumplings with potatoes, mushrooms;
- marinated mushrooms;
- sauerkraut and apples;
- herring with onions or under a fur coat;
- pancakes with fillings;
- pies;
- lightly salted fish.
Russian alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks are also very diverse. For a wedding in the national style, you can submit:
- mead;
- kvass;
- sbiten;
- various fruit and berry liqueurs;
- vodka in decanters;
- herbal tincture;
- moonshine in glass bottles.
The baked goods are also very varied. On the Russian table, kulebyaki, open pies decorated with braids of dough and braids, closed pies look great.
Lovers of sweets will have a lot of space on this day, as cake is an invariable attribute of a wedding. You can order or make multi-tiered cakes, cover them with mastic, on which folk patterns will be imprinted.
You can decorate such a masterpiece with fresh strawberries, and upwards with the spoons with which it is eaten. If you wish, mold braids from white and blue mastic and decorate the places between the tiers with them. The drawing should also be done in these colors.
It is necessary not only to decorate the cakes beautifully, but also the place where the photo session will be held. It is necessary to have photographs for memory. Check out some ideas to get you done right.
Registration of a place for a wedding photo shoot in the Russian style
This largely depends on what time of year the Russian wedding takes place. Traditionally in Russia it was autumn. Therefore, the following idea will help you decorate such an area correctly.
For such a corner, you will need:
- wooden boxes;
- a bench made of wood;
- hay;
- several round cuts of a tree;
- apples of red and yellow color;
- canvas with national patterns;
- a garland of flags;
- carpet with a matching pattern;
- wattle.
Step-by-step design of the location:
- A garland of flags is easy to make. To do this, you need to cut triangles from thick cardboard and take the twine of the desired size. Now fold the triangular flags in pairs so that there is a piece of rope between each two.
- Fix this garland on the top of the wall, and fix a canvas with a national pattern under the ceiling.
- Place a small wooden bench in the center for the bride and groom to sit on. Small pillows can be placed here.
- On one side, place the boxes with apples, next to which there are blocks. On the other hand, you need to put hay, and then hoist a container of fruit on this heap. There will be smaller block blocks.
- Place on one side a piece of wood with a trunk and an expressive knot. These surfaces should be treated with wood varnish and placed on a round wooden tabletop. On the other side, place a wattle fence that can be decorated with burlap, colorful scarf and bast shoes.
- Hang a carpet on the wall, and the other wall can be decorated with garlands of bagels, onions.
If the wedding takes place in the summer, lay a waterproof carpet on a clearing or other area and place the stage on it. Make it out of wooden planks by knocking down those.
- To make it comfortable to sit on such a pedestal, lay foam rubber on it, and only then cover it with red film or cloth.
- Place the backdrop in the form of a postcard for the young. To make a balalaika, put together its main parts from plywood, and make a handle out of wood. Color in this great tool.
- Since apples are symbols of holidays in Russia, it would be good to make halves of this fruit, glue them with a cloth of the appropriate color.
- Lay several bright tablecloths on the table, place a chair near it.
A photo shoot for a winter wedding can be no less colorful. Against the background of white snow, a wooden spinning wheel, a basket of hay, from which some apples have spilled out, will look beautiful. Place the spruce branches in the background.
You can also have another winter photo session. Make huge apples for her from balls or from foam blanks. Color them and glue the black fabric ponytails. From wooden planks, knock down small high pedestals, which need to be pasted over with self-adhesive paper with an ornament.
Place a table in the center that you want to cover with several tablecloths. Place a chair next to it, the bride and groom can sit on it, and the second person from the pair will stand nearby, the photographer will capture this moment.
If the event takes place indoors, you can make a place for a photo shoot here. Then paint the sheets of whatman paper with an ornament and decorate the room with it. To make such large beads, you need to sew a semblance of a stocking out of red fabric and stuff it with oranges and tangerines. Tie them with ribbons to make these beads.
You can use round objects such as balls, bows to make giant beads.
You can take a picture with the horses in the background. It is necessary to think in advance about the question of how the young will go to the wedding and to the banquet. It will be good if it is such a horse-drawn carriage.
To clearly understand what you need to do on this day, read the next paragraph.
With minimal cost, you can equip another place for a photo shoot. Against the background of white snow, a table decorated with a red tablecloth looks great. Put jars of jam on it, put crackers and buns in a basket. Let the newlyweds take mugs of tea, which is poured from a samovar, decorated with a bunch of bagels.
Scenario of a wedding in Russian folk style
First, the bride is to be redeemed. To do this, the young man must come to her house early in the morning, but his friends simply will not let him in to see the girl. They should prepare everything in advance for fun contests that will allow them to find out how the groom loves his girlfriend.
When everything is done, the young go to the wedding.
After this sacrament, they go to the state registration of marriage.
Now you can go to the photo session. By this time, everything should be ready for her.
Then the young people and guests go to the banquet. Here the newlyweds are greeted with a loaf by the parents of the bride and groom; they can also prepare funny tasks for them.
If the wedding takes place in the summer, then the banquet alternates with incendiary dances on the street, funny contests, and the performance of ditties.
After the banquet, the transfer of the symbolic home to the daughter from the mother will take place. This is also an old Russian rite, like the removal of the veil.
This is how a wedding in the national style can go. See how some couples have already celebrated this event. This is how Tatiana and Vitaly did it.
The next plot is longer, from it you will learn about the Russian wedding in more detail.
