Calico wedding

The first year is inscribed in the family chronicle of the young family. He was as bright and cheerful as a chintz - an unpretentious, practical and inexpensive cloth. But there is a danger of losing those bonds that are still fragile, which once connected the two loving hearts. During the first year together, there was a grinding of the characters and habits, the tastes and preferences were studied. This year was for the united hearts a year of trials of feelings and a year of their emergence as spouses. But how happy and warm it is for the guests who came to the first anniversary of the wedding, from the thought that the family was held, that, despite all the difficulties and difficulties of living together, the young people are happy together.

From time immemorial on Russian soil this holiday - calico wedding - was celebrated in families. This custom is observed now. The newlyweds give each other handkerchiefs made of chintz, decorated with memorable embroidery and inscriptions, on which knots are tying, while saying words of vow where words of faithfulness are compared with tightly knotted knots. These calico handkerchiefs are taken to a secret place and stored throughout the whole family life until the moment when one of the spouses does not leave this world. Only then the oath is considered to be dissolved. Correctly conducted folk rite tying knots on calico handkerchiefs guaranteed a happy and long life together.

On the day of the cotton wedding, the mother-in-law gave her daughter-in-law the main ritual gift - a cotton dress that symbolized the desire for an easy and simple family life. The young wife herself was preparing for the celebration in advance. She sewed a dress made of chintz, and her husband - a shirt or trousers of the same material, and prepared a festive tablecloth with embroidery for the table. On the day of the wedding anniversary, the young woman was obliged to wear her print dress, without removing, regardless of whether the guests came or not.

Today on this solemn day the first bottle of champagne is opened , which is kept by young people from the day of marriage. The second bottle is opened when the first-born appears in the family.

Calico wedding - gifts for this celebration were prepared special, symbolic. It could not be expensive things: gold, crystal, furniture, utensils, etc. After all, the newlyweds lived together for only one year, their relationship was not considered strong enough and developed. Therefore, on this anniversary of the wedding gave all kinds of products from chintz, as made by own hands, and purchased. The gifts for the calico wedding were necessarily bright, so that the young people's lives were rich and bright.

What do they give to a cotton wedding today? These can be calico sets for the kitchen: potholders, gloves, towels, aprons, napkins, tablecloths, cheerful curtains, etc. You can present as a gift to young, celebrating their first family holiday, bed linens made of chintz or other material, for example, calico, which is very close in texture to the chintz. It can be jocular gifts: for example, men's cotton calfskin. If a child has already appeared in the family or is just about to appear, you can donate calico diapers, ryazhonki, bonnets, etc. The needlewomen can make aromatic pads from chintz for fragrant herbs, summer clothes or its elements, decorative accessories for interior in style Patchwork with the use of cotton patches and much more. The main thing is that the gifts brought joy to the young, were useful and original.

Calico wedding - a cheerful family holiday. On this day, you can conduct various games, drawings, competitions. Family life at the newlyweds at the very beginning, and on what traditions will begin to be laid in them and customs will arise, this will be the whole life of a young family. Calico wedding - the first family holiday, followed by other weddings, in the names of which materials are more robust and sound. And God grant to young people that in their family chronicle there is a page where the diamond anniversary of their joint life will be inscribed.