Irish wedding toasts

When two people are in the Customs and traditions that determine this particular to all the promise of the bride and groom, a contented and happy life together. On the Green island, there are long-standing customs and traditions, some of which go back to the Celts. These are the customs and traditions that accompany today for an Irish wedding.

The time of the wedding

About the right time to close the knot, didn’t have to break the Irish a long head. The following rhyme predicts what the promise of the different months of the wedding for the future of the couple. So, you can run (almost) nothing is wrong.

Marry when the year is new, always loving, kind, and true.
When February birds do mate, you may wed nor dread your fate.

If you wed when March winds blow, joy and sorrow both you’ll know.
Marry in April when you can, joy for maiden and for man.

Marry in the month of May, you will surely rue the day.
Marry when June roses blow, over land and sea you’ll go.

They who in July do wed, must-lab always for their bread.
Whoever wed in August be, many a change are sure to see.

Marry in September’s shine, your living will be rich and fine.
If in October you do marry, love will come but riches tarry.

If you wed in bleak November, only joy will come, remember.
When December’s rain case fast, marry and true love will last.

Tying the knot – the knot

The knot closing, in the Celtic Tradition, its own meaning. The wrists of two people, who wanted to try it together, it was wound a Band. From now on, could try the Couple of togetherness for the course of a year. The Couple within the year that it didn’t want to take the Covenant, they could separate without consequences from each other and try your luck again. In the middle ages this practice, called Until today, this tradition can be found in modern, Irish wedding ceremonies as part of worship or ceremonies.

A blue dress

Yes, you read that correctly. Traditional Irish Wedding attire of the bride-to-be are not white, but blue had been. The brides walk down today in white clothes to the Altar, by the English to Ireland. White as a Symbol of purity and the Young-friendliness.

A lucky horseshoe

Not only on the Green island of the horseshoe for good luck and success. It is a very Irish wedding is a tradition that the bride wore, at least in earlier times, a horseshoe on your aisle to the Altar with him. After the wedding, this horseshoe received in the common home of the couple a place of honor.

It promised to be, if right, so with the Opening to the top, good luck for the common life, and healthy offspring. Even today, the horseshoe is an important part of Irish wedding, albeit a bit more subtle. Instead of a genuine horseshoe Irish brides wear a small silver or ceramic pendant in a horseshoe shape.

The magic handkerchief

The magic handkerchief linen wore the bride-to-be at your wedding with. She then held the handkerchief carefully, to sew for the first-born son of a Taufhaube.

From this Taufhaube the magic handkerchief for the next Generation and so forth, in turn, was. Whether first-born daughters had the honour to be with the handkerchief her mother baptized, unfortunately, is not handed down.

Wedding bells

Who visited an Irish wedding, the wedding decoration is often a small bell or bells. The origin of this decorative Element of time, as the Catholic Faith in Ireland was not to be lived, and Catholic marriages were criminalised. To leave however, bells are ringing that should keep the devil from the bride and groom, not bells rang in Irish, the imposing Church, but more manageable variants.

Irish drinking sayings to the wedding

The Irish are known for their poetic language. The typical toasts that accompany an Irish wedding, testify to this:

May the road rise to meet you
May the wind be always at your back
May the sun shine warm upon your face
and the rain case soft upon your fields
And until we meet again my friend
, May God hold you in the palm of his hand

Very beautiful, this spell is:

May your mornings bring joy and your evenings bring peace.
May your troubles grow few as your blessings increase.
May the saddest day of your future
Be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

May your hands be forever clasped in friendship
And your hearts joined forever in love.
Your lives are very special,
God has touched you in many ways.
May his blessings rest upon you
And fill all your coming days.

And then … a month of honey wine

The Irish wedding and subsequent honeymoon, or English, the Honeymoon has a special meaning. In Ireland, it was after the wedding usual, for a month together (of course in moderation) to drink honey wine. This should promote the manhood of the man and the fertility of the woman. So, it was hoped, to ensure faster for healthy offspring.

Today, it is Tradition, after the wedding, a drink of Mead, a drink, so honey wine.

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