While once it was obligatory for the young couple to have the family blessing in order to be able to have a wedding ceremony, today families are way much more liberal. However here are a few traditions in Russian marriage. Russian marriage is a unique experience. It is quite likely to find your bride with the help of marriage agency. These matchmakers will help you learn some basic things for the Russian culture, but you might be curious as to what is the traditional Russian marriage ceremony.

Traditional Russian marriage is usually taking place and authorized during church ceremony. The largest part of the local population is Christian but being part of the orthodox branch of this religion there are some slight differences from the western ritual. Later during the communist regime and especially during Stalin’s government, the church rituals were prohibited and not tolerated. Nowadays more and more young couples prefer to say “Yes” in front of God along with the formal papers that they sign to make the marriage real for any legal purposes. Orthodox ceremonies usually take between half an hour to more than four hours if they include all obligatory chants and acts for God’s blessing. Most modern couples prefer the short adaptation. Later the marriage moves to a restaurant or other place where all guests have fun and celebrate the event with tons of vodka and delicious Russian meals