Tradition with a garter, which is thrown like a bouquet of the bride, is borrowed from Western culture. This custom leads its history from France, but it was especially successful in the USA. Nevertheless, it is impossible not to notice the popularity of this kind of entertainment and in European countries.
Traditions
According to tradition, unmarried young people are going behind their backs in the groom, who before that took off the garter on the right leg of his bride. It can do it with hands, but some prefer to add "Perchinchi" and paint accessory to the teeth.
By the way, the garters on the legs of the brides are not at the same height. Left garter is somewhat closer to the top of the hip. After the wedding, it can serve as a family relic and an employee souvenir.
The removal process itself is carried out by hand, but some prefer to do it with teeth. We will not know what happens is not always smooth and often the bride has to help your chosen one.
As they say, there are not arguing about tastes, but not any surroundings can perceive it with approval. If the holiday has older relatives, then young may not avoid discomfort and awkward situations.
After that, the young man does not look throws a garter over his head, and idle men try to catch her.
The meaning of ritual
A particularly interesting feature of such a ritual is its sacred meaning. It is believed that the guy who caught the garter or a man will soon gain his love, and if it consists in relationships, the time of the pre-wedding unrest nearers.
In other cases, such a lucky can consider such a successful in women, as they say the gained accessory. The lucky one may even tie his hand with such an ornament and so to pass all the festival, and then either return the garter to the bride or leave yourself for memory.
What does the accessory look like?
Such a souvenir is though in our time purely decorative, previously served quite practical purposes. Garters were attached stockings, not allowing them to leave their support.
Of course, now the garter fulfilled through handmade is valued especially. In addition, it can be decorated with one's own taste and, adding a little imagination, turn into a real masterpiece.
No less interesting are the garters who have passed as a relic from one bride to the other, because once a caught accessory had to put on the bride of a man who was once lucky enough to catch her.
But not every girl can agree to the secondary use of someone else's underwear, which, by the way, is a garter, even despite the signs. Therefore, it is rather difficult to find such options and these traditions gradually go into history, although they are delayed in the servants of some women.
Do not forget that both the birthplace of such traditions are a more liberated West, and therefore, and we should not expect the wide distribution of this custom in the post-Soviet space.
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