Traditions are always important to our cultural identity

Many people think that the word traditional means old but that’s not true; traditions are the legacy of our ancestors passed from one generation to another and we must be proud of practicing all that traditions anyway if we don’t like one tradition we can change it a little bit but the important is that we must practice it! Traditions exist in every single society in the world. Armenian Weddings have many traditions and the Armenian people want all the traditions to be respected and practiced; no tradition must be forgotten, no tradition must be disrespected, no tradition must die. Our traditions can reflect our culture.

Traditional Armenian clothing

Concerning Armenian wedding there are some rules that the bride and groom must follow when the topic is clothing; if they want to follow and to practice the tradition they will need to dress up traditionally. If you search on Google about “Traditional Armenian Bride and Groom” you will fin a lot of images related to the upper mentioned subject; an image has more worth than a thousand word; by searching images on Google you can see what are the clothes that the bride and groom use on the traditionally Armenian Weddings celebration. The bride use a headpiece decorated with feather to represent purity.

Doves, love and happiness

After the Armenian wedding ceremony there is one more tradition that takes place. Doves are releases and the guest throw away some coins; the doves symbolize eternal love and eternal happiness the coins are used to wishing luck to the married couple. All the Armenian Weddings are quite interesting and we can learn a lot about the Armenian culture by looking at the various traditions that are used to help in the hard task of complementing a wedding traditions are also used to symbolize emotions and feelings and to wish luck to the couple, all the traditions have an important role in the Armenian Wedding.