TRADITIONS

During the end of the XIX century, it begins the tradition to celebrate any special event and, in particular, the wedding event: in order to celebrate with their own relatives and friends, wedding receptions were arranged and bonbonnières were given in memory of the event.

It is part of the tradition that:

-The bridegroom will not see his bride wearing the wedding dress until they both enter the church;
-The bride, on wedding day, will wear one thing that is new, one that has been borrowed, one that is old and one that is blue;
-The bride will step out of her house by her left foot, as good omen;
-The bride mother will take the bridegroom father to the church;
-The bride guests will arrange themselves on the left side and bridegroom's on the right.

It is part of the tradition as well, the rice thrown in the air, the arrangement of the honeymoon, the wedding ring exchange and the bonbonnière gift.

THE THROWING OF THE RICE
An old Chinese legend tells that once a good genie, looking at some hungry and exhausted peasants, was so touched by that vision that he gave as a sacrifice his teeth, throwing them in a marsh. Some months later, thousands of rice plants grow from the water. From that day comes the saying "where there's rice, there's abundance", and the throwing of the rice over the married couple heads is a wish for prosperity and love.

THE HONEYMOON
The name sees his origins in the Roman Age where the new couples of the old society were used to eat honey for a whole cycle of the moon after the marriage.

THE WEDDING RING EXCHANGE
The tradition of the ring exchange during the wedding has his roots in the Roman Age. The act of slipping a ring on a finger has the meaning of an untying relation between the two persons.

THE BONBONNIERE GIFT
The tradition of making up and give a bonbonnière is very old; the first bonbonnières dated back to the end of the XVI century: the name derives from the French, bom bom, that means little sweet and it is referred to the little sugar sweets - once considered a precious food, because it was imported from India - that were contained in the old bonbonnières, precious objects, made of gold, silver or precious stones.