The day when the bride gets married is shrouded in numerous signs. You've probably heard from grandmothers that during the wedding preparations the bride should have different kinds of things in her wardrobe: something already worn before, something borrowed and some thing blue. All these methods are designed to make the lives of young people long and happy.
Another well-known condition for a future cloudless family life is that the groom must see his beloved’s wedding dress for the first time directly on their wedding day.
The incident that made Natasha believe in the reality of popular beliefs
An interesting story has recently appeared on the Internet, directly related to the violation of one of the main wedding signs.
“I have dreamed of getting married for so long. And finally the wedding date has been set. I chose the dress a long time ago. My best friend Sveta could barely hide her envy when she learned that Kostya, one of the most popular students at the medical institute, proposed marriage to me. We studied in the same group. He is a therapist, I am a resuscitator. Common interests and passion for each other promised us a happy and cloudless family future.
That day I was spinning in front of the mirror and trying to come up with the perfect wedding hairstyle. In order to dive deeper into the desired image, I put on a veil.
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“You can’t wait for the wedding already, can you? Oh, let me try on this beauty too!” — rang the voice of Sveta, who came to visit. Her question instantly brought me out of my reverie. Of course, I couldn’t refuse my closest friend and without further ado I handed the veil to Sveta.
At that moment, when she was admiring her reflection in the mirror, my mother entered the room.
“Natasha, what’s going on? Haven’t you heard that you shouldn’t let anyone try on your veil?” she exclaimed with alarm.
Sveta quickly returned my item to me, and I pretty soon forgot about this unpleasant incident.” This is how a young girl described her story.
Everything is not according to plan: 17 comedies about weddings
A wedding is one of those things that takes a lot of time to organize and never goes exactly according to plan. We've collected a bunch of films about weddings and the unexpected twists that accompany them.
My ex's wedding
Literally, Right Before Aaron, 2017
- My ex's wedding
Adam, who had a hard time breaking up with his girlfriend Allison, whom he had been dating for many years, receives an invitation to her wedding to someone else. Only a year has passed since the separation, so Adam is still not ready to come to terms with the loss, he decides to break up the wedding at all costs and retrain from a guest to a groom.
Bitterly! in Mexico
Hasta que la boda nos separe, 2018
- Bitterly! in Mexico
A Mexican remake of the acclaimed Russian comedy “Gorko!” about how young people want to have the wedding of their dreams, and their parents long for traditions. Daniel and Maria, unable to convince the intractable father of the bride, decide to have two weddings at once: one romantic in the style of “The Little Mermaid”, and the second traditional - with relatives and a drunken party.
Happiness! Hello!
2018
- Happiness! Hello!
Three couples of varying degrees of love decide to get married, and for this they need to go through a severe test - to organize and survive the wedding ceremony and not quarrel. This is a comedy about the vicissitudes of Russian, Tatar and Armenian wedding rituals. The film was shot with the support of the ivi online cinema.
Best friend's wedding
Her Sey Seninle Guzel, 2018
- Best Friend's Wedding (in Turkish with Russian subtitles)
Turkish remake of the 1997 American romantic comedy starring Julia Roberts. Here, as in the original, the lady learns that her best friend, a backup option in case she has no luck with men in life, is going to get married. She decides to do her best to stop the wedding and marry the good guy to herself.
Eva Wilde's Crazy Wedding
The Wilde Wedding, 2017
- Eva Wilde's Crazy Wedding
The famous retired actress lives for pleasure and is getting married for the fifth time. Many guests come to the wedding, and among them is the former, very first husband. As is customary at such celebrations, there is complete madness all around.
Festive commotion
Le senses de la fête, 2017
- Festive commotion
This is the story of how a “low-key luxurious” wedding was organized in an old 18th-century mansion, and all the staff tried very hard not to mess up, but they couldn’t.
Groom for two
Jour J, 2017
- Groom for two
One girl found a business card from her boyfriend with contact details for a wedding planner and decided that this was practically an offer to seal the relationship with vows and seals. The newly-minted groom didn’t think about anything like that, because a random mistress gave him the card. Now one of his girlfriends is organizing a wedding for another, and they are forced to communicate a lot.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, 2016
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
15 years after the release of the first film, the big Greek mess continues. Tula and Ian just can’t find a secluded place to indulge in their personal lives away from their inquisitive relatives. Their teenage daughter dreams of running away to another city because her relatives are annoying her. And Tula’s parents find out that their marriage is invalid, and there is an excellent reason to gather everyone again for the wedding.
Best man for hire
The Wedding Ringer, 2015
- Best man for hire
Workaholic Doug is incredibly lucky - a beautiful girl agreed to marry him. The trouble is that he has no friends at all and no one to be best man at the wedding. So he turns to a wedding agency, where he finds Timmy, who agrees to play this role and may even find Daga a bunch of friends.
Slightly married
The Five-Year Engagement, 2012
- Slightly married
Tom and Violet's engagement dragged on for five years, and they kept postponing and postponing the wedding, planning and planning. We almost got divorced while we were organizing everything.
Frills
2010
- Frills
The situation is terrible - the groom is stuck in the provinces at a football match because he accidentally became a hostage coach, the bride is surrounded by guests waiting for him, and her ex is hitting on her and persuading her to leave the loser.
Bride Wars
Bride Wars, 2009
- Bride Wars
Since childhood, Liv and Emma have dreamed of having their weddings held at the luxurious Plaza Hotel, so when it turns out that they have scheduled ceremonies for the same day, their friendship comes to an end in an instant. The real bride war begins.
Love you dude
I Love You, Man, 2009
- Love you dude
A similar story happened with Peter Claven. But it ended completely differently than in “The Best Man for Rent.”
Mamma MIA!
Mamma Mia! 2008
- Mamma MIA!
The main character had a fun youth, gave birth to a pretty daughter, but has no idea from whom. And the daughter took it and, without thinking for long, invited all three candidates for fathers to the wedding.
27 weddings
27 Dresses, 2008
- 27 weddings
Jane managed to marry off 27 of her friends, but somehow things didn’t work out for herself. Then the sister suddenly announces her engagement to her beloved boss, and the girl realizes that it’s time to act decisively and break up the wedding for the first time in her life.
Friend of the Bride
Made of Honor, 2008
- Friend of the Bride
One day, a girl, Hannah, went on a business trip for a month and a half and returned with her fiancé - handsome, rich and positive on all sides. She offered the role of her bridesmaid to her best friend Tom, with whom she had been friends for ten years. Tom, as luck would have it, for the first time in their entire acquaintance realized that he loved Hannah not as a friend.
Wedding
1944
- Wedding
A little fly in the ointment is a satirical comedy based on the vaudeville act of A.P. Chekhov.
The townspeople of the Zhigalovs have a problem: no one wanted to take their beloved daughter Dasha as a wife. The only groom was almost missed, but everything was settled, and you can have a wedding “with the general.” January 17, 2021
What happened on the wedding day?
“On the day of the celebration, I and the guests waited for Kostya in front of the registry office. For some unknown reasons, he was late and did not answer my calls. My heart felt trouble, and my friend tried to console me. “He’s probably delayed because he’s choosing flowers for you, don’t worry in vain,” Sveta told me. At that moment I received a message from Kostya: “I’m sorry, I can’t become your husband, my ex-girlfriend is pregnant, I can’t leave my unborn child.”
Perhaps there is no mystical component in this story, but no one knows for sure how Natalya’s life would have turned out if she had followed the advice of folk wisdom and had not given her veil to a friend to try on that day.
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Popularity of tradition
With the establishment of serfdom, this tradition did not lose its popularity. Only now the bride was kidnapped by the master, intending to spend the night with her. If the young husband had the means, then he bought the bride, but if not, then he received her back only in the morning.
Photo of the bride being stolen at a wedding
Among Caucasians, theft of those named then and now is of a criminal nature. Often there is no collusion here, it’s just that the parents ask for a too large ransom for the girl, which the groom is not able to pay. Or a woman is opposed to marrying an unloved person, and this can only be resisted in this way.
As we can see, in those distant times, stealing a bride at a wedding was both a tradition and a necessary measure. Nowadays, this is a tribute to the past, a fun prank and a fun competition
