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A Servian Wedding.
should marry early , while , on the other hand , the daughters are detained at home unmarried as long as possible . To this custom , so uiuA'ersal , may be in part attributed the gradual decrease of the population . At the conclusion of the prayer , the Parintje ( as the Wallachians call their priestsprobablfrom the Roman Avord parens )
, y , stepped forth from the Iconostase , and presented tapers to the bride and bridegroom , AVIIO then followed him to the round table . The tapers were given to the bridesmaids aud bridesmen , and a long prayer was offered vip by the Parintje . The ceremony of joining hands succeeded , — -not as in other nations , by simply lacing hand in hand . Here the priesttaking a long strip of
p , AA'hite cloth , bound the hands tightly together Avhile he murmured another prayer ; a second Parintje then adA'anced , aud unfolding a long piece of cloth ( a present from the bridegroom to his bride ) , proceeded to Avincl it round the heads ofthe newlymarried couple , thus binding them firmly together , and leaving them ( as so often happens Avith lovers ) unable to see Avhat Avas
, passing around them . Hereupon , the priest appointed to pronounce the benediction placed one of the croAvns upon each head , and thus SAvathed and croAvned , the married couple Avere considered in a proper state to listen to the long prayers and
chantings which aAvaited them . As soon as these necessary forms were ended , the happy couple were pronounced man and wife , indissohibly united in the holy bands of matrimony ; the crowns Avere then removed , the veils and ligatures unbound , and the young man Avas at liberty to embrace his elderly wife . On their brows , bathed in
perspiration ( as if typical of their future life of toil ) , the first connubial kiss was given and received ^ The parish elders UOAV held a peAvter plate to the bridegroom , in which he deposited a triflinggift for the church . The priests received no other payment than the thanks of the bridesmen for their endeavours to procure the happiness of the bridal pairaud the whole procession
, marched off again , to the ad libitum accompaniment of the music , in the same order in which it had come , save that the newly married couple walked at the head of it , hand in hand , instead of separately as before . MeanAvhile , a crowd of young people had assembled in front of the churchsmartbeardless ladsin clean white trousers
; , , and ample shirt sleeves ; red-cheeked girls , with splendid black hair , dressed in their finest kotrinjes and gizeljes . In speaking of red cheeks , however , I am bound to state that Avhafc is meant is cheeks daubed with rouge . The WaUachian maidens are handsome , some are even remarkably beautiful : the full figure ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Servian Wedding.
should marry early , while , on the other hand , the daughters are detained at home unmarried as long as possible . To this custom , so uiuA'ersal , may be in part attributed the gradual decrease of the population . At the conclusion of the prayer , the Parintje ( as the Wallachians call their priestsprobablfrom the Roman Avord parens )
, y , stepped forth from the Iconostase , and presented tapers to the bride and bridegroom , AVIIO then followed him to the round table . The tapers were given to the bridesmaids aud bridesmen , and a long prayer was offered vip by the Parintje . The ceremony of joining hands succeeded , — -not as in other nations , by simply lacing hand in hand . Here the priesttaking a long strip of
p , AA'hite cloth , bound the hands tightly together Avhile he murmured another prayer ; a second Parintje then adA'anced , aud unfolding a long piece of cloth ( a present from the bridegroom to his bride ) , proceeded to Avincl it round the heads ofthe newlymarried couple , thus binding them firmly together , and leaving them ( as so often happens Avith lovers ) unable to see Avhat Avas
, passing around them . Hereupon , the priest appointed to pronounce the benediction placed one of the croAvns upon each head , and thus SAvathed and croAvned , the married couple Avere considered in a proper state to listen to the long prayers and
chantings which aAvaited them . As soon as these necessary forms were ended , the happy couple were pronounced man and wife , indissohibly united in the holy bands of matrimony ; the crowns Avere then removed , the veils and ligatures unbound , and the young man Avas at liberty to embrace his elderly wife . On their brows , bathed in
perspiration ( as if typical of their future life of toil ) , the first connubial kiss was given and received ^ The parish elders UOAV held a peAvter plate to the bridegroom , in which he deposited a triflinggift for the church . The priests received no other payment than the thanks of the bridesmen for their endeavours to procure the happiness of the bridal pairaud the whole procession
, marched off again , to the ad libitum accompaniment of the music , in the same order in which it had come , save that the newly married couple walked at the head of it , hand in hand , instead of separately as before . MeanAvhile , a crowd of young people had assembled in front of the churchsmartbeardless ladsin clean white trousers
; , , and ample shirt sleeves ; red-cheeked girls , with splendid black hair , dressed in their finest kotrinjes and gizeljes . In speaking of red cheeks , however , I am bound to state that Avhafc is meant is cheeks daubed with rouge . The WaUachian maidens are handsome , some are even remarkably beautiful : the full figure ,