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A welsh wedding has many traditions to abide by should it be considered a true welsh wedding. Many practices that once were the norm get fazed out over time but luckily events are recorded so that future generations can get an idea of what life was like before their time. Many people want to do something special on their wedding day and for ideas some look to the past.
The celts are very proud of their history and are now encouraged to embrace their heritage and traditions as there is a want and need for national identity in the United Kingdom. The welsh wedding is morphing or rather, regressing to what it was in days gone by from the courting stage to the wedding itself.
In Wales it was common practice for a man to carve a wooden spoon that was to be presented to his partner as a symbol of love. This spoon, he would carve in, was decorated with pictures of wedding bells or keys as a way to display his intensions. So if he carved in love hearts and bells he is saying that he intends to marry the girl.
Should she accept she would first have to be kidnapped and rescued. Prior to a welsh wedding the brides family would kidnap her and hide her in a house where she would wait to be rescued by the groom or one of his family. The brides family would try to stop them but ultimately they give her up and the person who finds her first is said to be married within a year of the day.
It is common practice in a traditional welsh wedding for the bride to have myrtle in her bouquet after the service she would cut some out and give it to her bridesmaids. This, they would plant and if it should bloom was to be considered a sign that the one who planted it would be married soon.
Many brides to be are now going for traditional welsh wedding rings in the celtic style or with an inscription in Welsh on the inside.