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Tradition, originally uploaded by Prêt à Voyager.
“Sleep with this under your pillow the night of the wedding and the person you will marry will be revealed to you” (Prêt à Voyager).
The bridal shoe, originally uploaded by Prêt à Voyager.
This photo describes what Kathleen told me about in a previous blog: Names on Shoes.
In This Picture:
“Names of single friends are written on the bottom of the brides shoe. At the end of the night the names that are worn off are destined to be married; names of those that remain are screwed.” (Prêt à Voyager)
Do you know about any other shoe rituals?
Post Notes from Maria (Pelliponisa)
“The groom buys the brides shoes and sends the gift with money inside the shoes to the bride’s house on their wedding day.”
This sounds like A Cinderella Moment.
Does the groom send the gift over or does he give the bride her gift in person?
Watch this short clip from youtube it is fascinating!
This Greek bride from Greece (not sure which island) smashes cups and plates on the footpath before she leaves her home. One of the guests (maybe her mother) sprinkles lathi, rose petals and rice on the ground that she walks on.
Do you know which island this ritual comes from?
For a sweet groom the mother of the bride must bake a licquor (a sweet) for the gambro. This is a tradition practiced by many of the islands in a few different ways.
Notes from Maria (Koz):
“My mother made a baclava cut into triangles with koloudia and roses placed around the outside for my husband before we were married”.
Notes from Maria (Pelliponisa):
“My mother made 3 breads for her gambro and that when he came over they broke the bread over the gambros head”.
I really want to get the recipies and correct names of these sweets so that i can share them on the blog. If i get lucky, i might even find a Yaiyai to video tape while making some of these sweets!
Do you know any recipies, names or Yaiyai’s that could help me?
Post Notes from Kathleen:
On the day of her wedding my cousin Kathleen wrote the names of all her bridesmades on the bottem of her shoe. Apparently the number of names that rubbed off by the end of the night would determine how many children she would have.
There are different versions of this tradition such as the one described by Prêt à Voyager in another blog post: The Bridal Shoe.
Do you know any other shoe rituals or explainations of the ritual described above?
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