| Modern Wedding in Spain: | | | | house the friends newly use fireworks to celebrate |
| Suits: | | | | the wedding. |
| The bride usually wears a white wedding dress of | | | | If the bride is waiting at the church then the groom |
| fiancee although the last tendency are cream colors. | | | | goes directly there. |
| Also, in the civil ceremonies, suits of another colors are | | | | At the ceremony bride and groom gives one another |
| used allthough minoritary. The veil is usually part of the | | | | the rings and usually ( but not ever) they interchange |
| dress, although it is hardly used to cover the face. | | | | the "arras" ( a sort of coins). Catholic ceremonies last |
| Bride's mother shows the dress to her family a day | | | | about ? of hour and assistents may take also |
| before, groom should not see it. Usually one of the | | | | communion. Civil ceremonies are much shorter ( about |
| shoe should be lightly over the other to be a luckily | | | | ? of hour) and are directed by the town major. |
| married couple. | | | | Once finished the ceremony and pictures taken with |
| The groom wears jacket suits that range from the | | | | friends and relatives in the church, the newly married |
| smoking to suits of very modern cut, the classic colors | | | | couple goes out of the church, their friends and |
| are gray, brown and sometimes white cream. Necktie | | | | relatives are waiting for them to throw rice over both |
| are in very few occasions pajarita. | | | | in a sort of luck desire. Finally friends celebrate the |
| Ceremony: | | | | wedding again with fireworks and rockets. |
| The celebration begins in house of the groom where | | | | All together they go to the restaurant or special |
| the friends and relatives are going to gather him, here | | | | wedding celebrations local, a tipical spanish wedding is |
| the parents of the groom invite to the assistants to a | | | | formed by around 200 - 300 people. |
| small snack. When coming out of house the friends of | | | | All kinds of food and drinks are served, mostly begining |
| the groom usually burn rockets ( fireworks) to | | | | with light food like jamon, aperitives, cheese, etc. Then |
| celebrate it. | | | | a normally composed of seafood (prawns, Norway |
| Also it is possible that in the first place the fiance takes | | | | lobsters, etc) dish is served and after a meat dish. |
| shelter in the house of the godmother of the wedding | | | | The nuptial cake is served, the couple has to cut this |
| (that can habitually be the mother of the fiance or the | | | | cake and give each other a piece. |
| godmother of baptism) and then they go to the fiance | | | | Depending of zones, the friends of the groom makes |
| home. | | | | a joke with him like making him to look for money in to |
| From here the retinue goes to house of the bride or to | | | | a sand box or water, putting him a disguise, etc usually |
| the church, depending on the customs of each zone. | | | | it 's something related with his job or hobbies. Same is |
| The godfather will be with the relatives and friends of | | | | made with the bride and his friends, cutting the panty's |
| the fiancee at brides house. Bride and groom find them | | | | league was a must in every wedding. |
| and together they go to the church. The bride will go | | | | The celebration continues long time in the night with |
| of the arm of her godfather and the groom with the | | | | music and dance, the kind of music depends on the |
| godmother. For longer distances a special car is hired, | | | | zone, but it is usaualy modern music. |
| may be limousine or a horses car. Exiting from brides | | | | |