In essence, the wedding was rather mournful ceremony. Even if the girl married the man she loved, she wept a lot on her wedding. And the problem wasn't in the hardness of married life. The bride left parents' family and her spiritual protectors. On Russian weddings a lot of beautiful sad songs were heard. The bride had a special mourning costume. During the wedding ceremony the bride considered to be "dead". She didn't eat anything and nobody, even the fiancй, touched her - it was very dangerous to break the border of the World of Dead. Besides, fiancee and fiance never ate together, because joint meal "made" them "brother" and "sister".And marriages betweenrelatives were forbidden.