The Krevati is a topic that i am currently trying to research. Here are some comments i have received so far.

Stella left this comment:
“As far as i know the Greeks have a tradition to make the bride’s and groom’s bed on the Thursday before the marriage. The women that they make the bed are usually unmarried girls. I do not know the reason why. After the make the bed they throw rice on it and the people that go to see the bed usually women they throw rice and money. The rice is for good luck and fertility and the money is simply to help out the couple financially to start their life”.

Ted says:
“The ‘krevati’ or making of the bed! This usually happens two days before the wedding and is a big gathering of the two families, relatives and friends. Lots of eating and drinking is of course also customary, and followed by two young unmarried girls to make up the double bed. It is believed that the first one to get a pillowcase on will get married soon. Then all the people present throw money on the bed including gold coins to make the marriage prosperous.

After the bed has been showered with money a young male child (or female!) is thrown on the bed in hope that the marriage will be fertile and therefore fruitful and the first child from the union of the couple will also be a boy (girl).”

Maria from Cyprus says:
“I presume you are reffering to the krevati dance were they use a matress, first they toss a 3-4 year-old usually boy on it and then they toss the bride and groom, it’s traditional very rarely done nowadays and it’s meaningis that this way it will ensure fertility for the couple and hopefully their first-born will be a male child.

However there are a lot of variations of the krevati and thats mainly cause some of the greek islands have it too as a tradition like Cyprus which means it has been altered from island to island and from time to time so it has quite a few variations in Cyprus they have this patriarchy thing going where it had to be a boy and the bride had to have a male first born child nowadays if it is practiced at a wedding it’s going to be in front of all the guests after the church ceremony and it will involve bothe the groom and the bride and it’s practiced mainly for appearances sake and window-dressing shall we say but the small boy only si a rule that is not bend just cause they never got around to changing that one and they kinda don’t wanna in my point of view…”

Lia sent me this comment:
“at the krevati at this wedding the bridesmaids had to each sew a red cross at each corner of the mattress”.

Questions:
Do you have any pictures/video of Greek Krevatis?
Does anyone have the lyrics to the songs the ladies sing?