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  2. Marriage in ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greek marriage celebration consisted of a three part ceremony which lasted three days: the proaulia, which was the pre-wedding ceremony, the gamos, which was the actual wedding, and the epaulia, which was the post-wedding ceremony. Most of the wedding was focused on the experience of the bride. [1]

  3. Wedding customs by country - Wikipedia

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    Handfasting is a wedding ritual in which the bride's and groom's hands are tied together. It is said to be based on an ancient Celtic tradition and to have inspired the phrase "tying the knot". "Handfasting" is favoured by practitioners of Celtic-based religions and spiritual traditions, such as Wicca and Druidism.

  4. Ceremonies of ancient Greece - Wikipedia

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    Ceremonies of ancient Greece. Ceremonies of Ancient Greece encompasses those practices of a formal religious nature celebrating particular moments in the life of the community or individual in Greece from the period of the Greek dark ages (c. 1000 B.C) to the middle ages (c. 500 A.D). Ancient Greek religion was not standardised and had no ...

  5. Bedding ceremony - Wikipedia

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    Bedding ceremony. The bedding ceremony refers to the wedding custom of putting the newlywed couple together in the marital bed in front of numerous witnesses, usually family, friends, and neighbors, thereby completing the marriage. The purpose of the ritual was to establish the consummation of the marriage, either by actually witnessing the ...

  6. Culture of Greece - Wikipedia

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    Restored North Entrance with charging bull fresco of the Palace of Knossos (), with some Minoan colourful columns. The first great ancient Greek civilization were the Minoans, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on Crete and other Aegean Islands, that flourished from c. 3000 BC to c. 1450 BC and, after a late period of decline, finally ended around 1100 BC during the early Greek Dark Ages.

  7. Wedding - Wikipedia

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    Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, races, religions, denominations, countries, social classes, and sexual orientations. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vows by a couple, presentation of a gift (offering, rings, symbolic item, flowers, money, dress), and a public proclamation of ...

  8. The Greek food event in ChefVille continues to grow this week, as players can now complete a series of three "Greek Traditions" quests, which involve upgrading the Greek Cooking Station to the ...

  9. Birthday customs and celebrations - Wikipedia

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    Punches, bumps, spankings, and other birthday taunts. "The bumps", or "the dumps" in Scotland, [3] [4] a birthday torment common in countries such as the UK, Ireland, Canada, and India, [1] involves the friends and family of the person whose birthday it is taking him or her by the arms and legs, and "bumping" him/her up into the air and down ...