So you've decided to join their fate with a loved one, do not just get the blessing of the registrar, but also to get married in the Orthodox Church. It is important that this event was not just a tribute to fashion, and therefore seriously consider the step, and for this it is important to know its features. To whom and when to marry, under any circumstances perform sacred ordinances, and you need to do to prepare?
Editorial Kolobok.ua Learn all the details of this amazing and powerful ritual.
Who can and can not marry
• The first requirement is crowned - to be baptized in the Orthodox Church. If the groom or the bride is not churching in the Orthodox Church and the situation with the baptism is not clear, it is important to at least one month before the intended date of the wedding to come to church and discuss the nuances of the priest. Sometimes allowed to marry young, even if someone is not in the pair Orthodox, but! - provided that the children born in this marriage will be baptized in the Orthodox Church.
• The second requirement - the young age of marriage: Bride to be fulfilled 16 years of age, the groom -18. True, the priest certainly make an exception and a young bride, if she is expecting a child (or, as we say in Ukraine will be "at hope"). The Church is interested in the fact that children born in crowning the marriage.
• Curiously, the couple were married, even if the future spouses did not receive the blessing of their parents. In this case, it is all a blessing cleric.
IMPORTANT. You can not be married to atheists and non-baptized, the vital and spiritual family (eg, godfather and goddaughter), and marrying for the fourth time. Wedding ceremony can only be performed three times. And then, provided that a person widowed or previous crowned marriage terminated by church rules.
When you can and can not marry
It is important that you can get married on the day of the marriage at the registry office (but it is very difficult to endure physically), and even if your legal marriage for many years.
By the way, if someone from the pair having misunderstandings with the documents and other problems, do not be afraid to turn to the priest - you should definitely go to the church to meet him.
Not crowned:
• positions in time:
Christmas - runs November 28 - January 6;
Great - seven weeks before the Orthodox Easter;
Petrov - depending on Easter dates lasts from 8 to 42 days;
Assumption - lasts 14 - 27 August.
Keep in mind this caveat, planning a wedding (post involves abstinence in food, alcohol, loud festivities, and in the vicinity of the flesh);
• denied a wedding in the landmark dates:
11 September - The Beheading of St. John the Baptist;
27 September - Exaltation of the Cross;
from 7 to 19 January - Christmas time;
on Shrove Tuesday;
Bright on week (week after Easter);
• if one of the couple planning to wed, is married to another man, who was not canceled in the prescribed order of the church;
• crowned in the church every day, 4 days a week, on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays. In the days of the four positions, while they are not religious marriages;
• if not given the blessing cleric marriage and wedding.
IMPORTANT.There is also a piquant moment: according to church law, can not appear at the temple in the "critical days". Well, it makes sense to calculate and choose the right time ritual.
How to prepare for the wedding
It is important to choose a church and a priest who will perform the ceremony. It is desirable to give preference to the temple, where you go from childhood, or one in which you comfortable, quiet.
Arrange a date for the wedding you need ahead of time - a few weeks. Also important time to discuss: how much will last ritual that bring with them into the temple, whether it is possible to shoot a ceremony in the temple of the camera or doing a photo shoot, how much will it cost ritual (he paid).
IMPORTANT.The priest can offer you additional church services: for example, the sound of bells, the singing of the choir.
How to choose the guarantors
Guarantors - a witness at the wedding that keep wreaths during the ceremony. They are usually chosen from the family (friends), baptized, unmarried or living legally married people (divorced or who are in a civil union is not allowed to choose the church). Guarantors perform the same duties as godmothers: they help the young in life advice, spiritually direct the family.
IMPORTANT.In the case where could not agree with the witnesses, the wedding can spend without them.
How to choose an outfit for the wedding
An important rule: in the young should be baptismal crosses. The bride is not supposed to wear a short dress (below the knees), without a deep neckline and open shoulders too (you can throw on the shoulders stole). Fata is allowed, but the massive headgear or hat not, because the bride will put on the head of the church aisle.
The groom is supposed to be in a suit... but not in sports or too bright, extravagant, and women - guests rite desirable to be in a dress or skirt below the knee, married - with his head covered.
IMPORTANT.The bride is not necessary to be a church with a very bright makeup, also - painted lips can not kiss the cross and icon. By the way, the people believe that a wedding dress can not give or sell: it is stored as a baptismal shirt kryzhmu and candles.
What you need to prepare for the wedding
Think ahead to the beginning of the wedding were ready all the necessary attributes for the rite:
• ring - they must give to the priest for the rite of consecration;
• wedding candles;
• Wedding icons (images of Christ and the Virgin);
• a white towel, towel (it will be young at the time the ceremony);
• Two handkerchief (they wrapped wedding candles).
IMPORTANT.Wedding towel is stored as the wedding candles that can be lit to clear a house in difficult times or when someone in the family is sick.
How to behave during a wedding ceremony
The priest will tell you how to be a rite of passage. The wedding takes place at the entrance to the church, the bride stands to the left of the groom, both stand on rushnyk until the end of the sacraments hold lighted candles. During the ceremony, the young priest blessed - after special prayers three times he has to change hands with wedding rings on a young bride's hand.
Next confessor asks the question: "willingly performed the wedding? Are there any obstacles? ". After answering the prayers of young and young stand before God spouses. They kiss church crowns and three sips drink sacramental wine.
At the end of the ceremony the priest conducts the couple around the podium, and then - to the king's gate, the young kisses the icon of Christ, the young - an icon of the Mother of God. After - guests can congratulate the young!
