1. Weddings old.
With its rituals, customs, protocols and easements, holding
weddings gone, like everything else, evolve with the passing of
the years.
The first memories I have of these celebrations, the late fifties
and early sixties, are related to the stay of the children at the
door where the guests are entertained waiting to give us some
flute. So we tasted some pampering or some perrunilla always
someone inside already knew us and had made provision for
their commitments, it was customary to reserve some of the
candy in a scarf or purse for relatives and neighbors who had
not gone to wedding.
2. • Most bonds are held during the months of August and September at
the end of the grain harvest, for with the revenue sale was provided to
help meet the heavy expenses originated. The betrothal increased the
number of years of bumper harvests.
• The families of the spouses spent the days leading up to the logic
entailed busy preparing all the details.
• You had to be careful that nothing should fail, especially when it came
to invitations. Last night, despite being already notified all guests in
advance, the relatives of the couple organized their groups and went
from house to house remembering that the wedding would be the
already certain time. It was a brief visit that lasted the time necessary
for such communication. But not to forget anyone that could be a
reason for non-attendance by that very sensitively, considered that
forgetfulness as an insult.
3. If there was a single unaccompanied guest in a house, spent some
familiar contracting the corresponding day of the wedding so it was
not home alone boyfriend or girlfriend.
They were going to the house guests due to them, as by those who
had been called.
When approaching the time of the ceremony, the procession of the
contracting male walked to the house of the bride where it awaited
its guests. From there shaking his arm with the bride and groom
with Godfather Godmother, went to church for the ceremony. In
the corners waiting to see the curious step of the wedding party.
4. On breaks that gave the musicians during the dance, the younger people did dances
and songs style "What makes you poor old man who does not marry, which is
wrinkled like a raisin you ..." sang "Let you leave that I want to see him dance, jump
and jump ... "" Being the Don sentadito cat on the roof ... "" of Catalonia come to
serve the king ... "
Some of these songs were accompanied by the dance of a young couple who were
leaving the center of the circle, hands on waist and opposite each other, moving the
trunk alternately right and left to the sound of the songs.
After they passed two or three times in the center, clutching her hand and resting
one foot and another alternately.
When the song ended, each of which had danced invited out to center to another of
the opposite sex. If you insisted twice with the same person could be an indication
that the person you loved, at least I commented the other giggling and complicity.
At night it was left to enter the dance to which they were not invited to the wedding
and waiting at the door, but they had to leave the room when the musicians played
the "up Fifth". It was the signal to remain only wedding.