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🇧🇬 Wedding traditions of Bulgaria

13 traditions from Bulgaria, best known first, across 3 cities and towns.

A wedding in Bulgaria, stage by stage

The customs written up so far, in the order a wedding unfolds.

Wedding timeline of Bulgaria by stage
The weeks before	Bread and salt, Călușari, Anastenaria, Radonitsa, Martenitsa, Mărțișor, Lazarice
The eve	Anastenaria
The ceremony	Bulgarian wedding music, Korovai, Anastenaria
The wedding feast	Hora, Čoček, Karsilamas
Reception, dance and gifts	Csárdás, Bread and salt, Bulgarian wedding music, Korovai, Hora, Călușari, Čoček, Karsilamas
After the wedding	Mărțișor

Cities, towns and villages of Bulgaria

Gramatikovo 1 Slivarovo 1 Sofia

🇷🇺 Russia and 5 moreBread and salt A traditional welcome offering of bread and salt to guests or newlyweds in Slavic, Baltic, and Balkan cultures.Feast custom · The weeks before

🇷🇴 Romania and 7 moreHorahora (Romanian), horo (Bulgarian), oro (Macedonian), horah (Hebrew) A circle dance held at weddings across Southeast Europe and among Jewish communities worldwide.Performance · Reception, dance and gifts

🇷🇴 Romania and 4 moreCălușariCălușarii A traditional Romanian spring dance and male society known for acrobatic leaps and ritual healing.Performance · The weeks before

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Hora: Chajeshukarie ( talk ), Public domain, source
Bread and salt: Olli Niemitalo, CC0, source
Călușari: El bes, CC BY 3.0, source

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