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    Romanian weddings follow traditions involving legal marriage at city hall, religious ceremonies, and receptions lasting until dawn with dances, food, drinks, and a ritual where the bride is kidnapped for ransom. Traditions also include replacing the bride's veil with a headscarf to symbolize her new role and placing the bouquet on an unmarried friend.

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    Romanian weddings follow traditions involving legal marriage at city hall, religious ceremonies, and receptions lasting until dawn with dances, food, drinks, and a ritual where the bride is kidnapped for ransom. Traditions also include replacing the bride's veil with a headscarf to symbolize her new role and placing the bouquet on an unmarried friend.

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    Romanian weddings follow traditions involving legal marriage at city hall, religious ceremonies, and receptions lasting until dawn with dances, food, drinks, and a ritual where the bride is kidnapped for ransom. Traditions also include replacing the bride's veil with a headscarf to symbolize her new role and placing the bouquet on an unmarried friend.

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    Radu Andreea Maria, 7th grade E

    WEDDING TRADITIONS IN ROMANIA

    Nowadays, Romanian weddings are an interesting combination of old and new, religion
    and tradition. When a couple decides to get married, there are lots of steps and procedures
    which have to be followed before this event.

    The events on the wedding day usually happen like this: on a Saturday morning, the
    couple goes to the city hall to get legally married, then the bride goes to her parents’ house,
    and the groom to his parents’. They start the preparations for the religious ceremony. The
    groom is getting dressed and shaved by his best man and some other friends, then they go to
    the godparents’ house and together with them, they go to pick up the bride. Meanwhile, the
    bride is getting prepared by her bridesmaids. The groom, the godparents and the young men
    arrive at the bride’s house with pine trees which are left at the gates for luck. Then, all the
    people go to the church for the ceremony. After this ceremony, people usually have a photo
    session before going to the restaurant.

    The party at the restaurant normally starts at about 7pm and lasts till dawn. There are
    also certain traditions to be kept. The party should start with the first dance of the newlyweds,
    followed by a lot of dances with all the guests, accompanied by a lot of food and drinks on the
    tables. At around midnight, the bride is kidnapped by a group of people from the wedding and
    taken to another place. Then, the groom and the godfather must pay a ransom. If the bride is
    kidnapped before midnight, the groom pays, if afterwards, the godfather.

    After the wedding cake is served, the bride’s bouquet is caught and the party is almost
    finished. There is another important tradition. The godmother takes the veil from the bride’s
    head and replaces it with a head scarf. While the godmother is trying to put the scarf on the
    head of the bride she is supposed to refuse and ‘fight’ against it, by pulling it down three times.
    The gesture symbolises the transfer from a girl to a married woman who will take care of the
    household and future children.

    After this moment, the young woman who caught the bride’s bouquet or another
    unmarried friend will take the bride’s place on the chair and the new wife will put her former
    veil on the head of the young lady. The dance begins again, but this time around the future
    bride to be. This is the last important moment of the wedding reception.

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