Matchmaker
On the eve of the wedding in the bride's home took a hen party. In which the bride and her friends performed the ritual washing in the bath, and then, a friend of the bride, in Last time, braided her maiden braids. There were all these actions under the sad songs girlfriends. Girls were sleeping in the house of the bride. The bridegroom's gatherings were less common. They were the more reason to sit in a campaign of friends and drink. Not always, and far longer in the form of enforced now pre-wedding rituals and traditions, but the wedding itself, as always, paid great attention. Starring at the wedding, of course, are assigned to the groom and bride.
But in the retinue of the bridegroom was best man is required. Sometimes the bride was administered the second friend. Boyfriend became chief administrator of a wedding celebration, so it was good to know the ritual and order conduct ceremonies and had to be able to entertain the audience and be a glib tongue. A towel tied over his shoulder, set him apart among the participants of the wedding. And in modern wedding present boyfriend, but now it is more called "toaster". To help the friend from among married families were chosen Matchmaker and Matchmaker.
Swat was assigned to the ceremonial duty "in a feminine" style your hair after the wedding the bride and putting young people into bed. Podnevestnitsy and chosen from the unmarried youth. Typically, chose them an equal amount.
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