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A mordovian wedding is a lasting and ceremonial event, which includes many traditional moments and rituals.

Like any important event, a wedding consists of several stages:
1. Matchmaking
2. The wedding preparations
3. The wedding day;

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Matchmaking is one of the main traditional stages of a Mordovian wedding. Originally, it was the groom's parents who chose the bride.

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The traditional Mordovian holiday, which was celebrated in the autumn after the harvest. Young girls gathered in one house and show their ability to run a household. Here the boys' relatives were looking for a decent future wife for him.

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When the groom's parents chose the bride before the matchmaking, they made a ritual prayer to the gods for the happiness of the future family. A generic candle was necessarily lit on the table, as a symbol of the hearth and home.

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The young man's parents came to the girl's parents' house three times before getting consent to the marriage. After that, the fathers of the bride and groom discussed the gifts and, if they agreed, the booze up began.

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Booze up was a traditional celebration at which the groom's parents came to the bride's house to celebrate the consent to the wedding. The tables were covered with various festive dishes, everyone was drinking and having fun. Then the ceremony took place: the groom's father offered the bride a glass of alcohol with a coin at the bottom; if the bride drank alcohol and took out a coin, it meant that she was ready to get married.

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After the booze-up, the bride began to prepare for the wedding. She started to prepare gifts and learn lamentations.

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The bride needed to have from 10 to 20 embroidered women's shirts, the same number of men’s shirts and a significant number embroidered kokoshniks, towels, scarves with embroidered borders.

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The bride went to the yard at night to wail. That ritual symbolized the parting with her girlhood. Usually girls were taught to do this at the age of 7-8. If a bride was afraid of going out alone, she took her bridesmaids That ritual lasted for 4-5 days.

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On the Saturday, before the wedding day, there was the bride's porridge ritual. Each invited woman had to bring a pot, a bowl with porridge. They sat down at the table and put their porridge on it.

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Before the wedding the bride had to go to a bath heated by her friends or sisters-in-law.

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Mordovian wedding clothes for the bride and groom are usually bright and colorful, reflecting the richness of Mordovian culture and its traditions.
Bride's clothes consist of:

1. A sweeping long shirt
2. Diversified pieces of jewelry
3. A distinctive headpiece and traditional boots;

Groom's clothes consist of:
1. The "panar", a broad style shirt that signified status.
2. "Ponks", traditionally designed pants that enhance masculine appeal.
4. A felt hat
3. A belt "kushak" and lapti;

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- Erzyan traditional costume features three overlapping skirts.
- Their headdress, "soroka", tends to be larger than the Mordovian equivalent.
- Shirt decorations are distinct, usually adorned with sequins, gaitans, and beads.
- Hip jewelry is significant, symbolizing luck in marriage and protection from troubles.

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A traditional Mordovian wedding can be called a folk musical drama. Marriages were traditionally the responsibility of their parents and relatives. Often, when choosing a bride, the main attention was paid to the property status of her family, the girl’s hard work and health.

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At a Mordovian wedding, there are key characters who are given an important role. For example, a bridesmaid should go to all the houses before the wedding and invite relatives to the wedding. Next important person is the matchmaker (kudava). And last but not least is Uredev. His duty is to protect the bride and groom from evil eye throughout the wedding.

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After church, the married couple were met not by their parents, but by a matchmaker. She had a loaf of bread in her hands - luvon kshi or luksh. Also married people had to kneel before their parents so that they would give their blessing to their marriage.

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The first meeting of the married couple took place at stable or barn in winter and summer. This happened in the middle of the wedding: the bride was kidnapped and pushed into a barn. The groom was already there and then the bride was brought, with the words: “Wolf, here’s a sheep for you!”