Uczta weselna - tradycja i współczesność w parafii Rudna Wielka (Diecezja Rzeszowska)
Wedding Reception - Tradition and Modernity in the Parish of Rudna Wielka (Diocese of Rzeszów)

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is to present the customs and rituals of the wedding reception. The purpose of these is analysis and pay attention to the disappearance some customs and appears new in the parish of Rudna Wielka, near Rzeszow. This article consists of four points. They describe the preparation of young people for weddings, its beginning, wedding games and capping ceremony. Source of the study is based on information obtained by ethnographic field research on wedding rituals. The study was conducted in 2011 in the villages of Rudna Wielka, Rudna Mała and Pogwizdów Nowy. In the 20th century preparations for the wedding reception began a week earlier and the party was next to the house of the bride. Currently, the young are planning a wedding already a year before, now it takes place in the folk house, wedding house, restaurant or hotel. Couple must book the ballroom, photographer, invite guests in advance. After the mass, the young along with the guests go to the place where the reception is to take place, where they are welcomed with bread and salt, then the groom carries his wife over the threshold. Then is toast and everyone sit down to dinner. After the end of the meal, the newlyweds dance their first dance, then go to the wedding session. Before midnight, the orchestra organizes different types of games, which involve everyone invited guest, parents of honeymooners and themselves. At midnight the capping ceremony takes place. It was believed that those who catch a tie and veil will soon get married. Young thank the leaving guests for coming, invite them to after-party and give them a cake.

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