Mardi Gras wedding
A carnival wedding traditionally takes place during the carnival season and is a custom known especially in southern Germany and Austria . Mardi Gras weddings are often organized by traditional costume clubs , volunteer fire brigades , rifle clubs or rural youths , and the process can be very different depending on the region. A special form of the carnival wedding is the begging wedding .
procedure
It is not a real marriage , but a kind of drama with roles reversed. The bridegroom is represented by a woman and the bride by a man.
Often old and traditional garments such as dirndls and traditional costumes are used, as they are a parody of the usual peasant weddings. Although it is a humorous event, a Mardi Gras wedding requires a lot of planning, as the "wedding ceremony" and the associated celebrations take place in public and have to be organized like a "real" wedding. The contributors also get ridiculous names. The supporting program is occasionally expanded to include a men's ballet or planned incidents during the celebrations.
literature
- Hans Schuhladen: Mardi Gras weddings as game forms , in: Bavarian Yearbook for Folklore, 1991
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mardi Gras, Lent and Easter. (No longer available online.) In: lra-mue.de. Archived from the original on October 21, 2007 ; Retrieved December 28, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Invitation with style: The Bergen Carnival Wedding. (No longer available online.) In: br-online.de. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 28, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carnival wedding in Pillnach. Retrieved on December 28, 2009 (pillnach.de): "After months of planning, many meetings and discussions with the elderly residents [...]"
- ^ Carnival wedding 2009. (No longer available online.) In: theater-reitimwinke.de. Archived from the original on May 15, 2009 ; accessed on December 28, 2009 : "The community clerk Kasimir vom Schneidereck [...]" Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
