Wedding, Fthiotida
On the Sunday before the wedding, the groom's friends offer to the bride and the groomsman a pie (bread of various designs), made by the groom's mother. They in turn welcome them with wine and appetizers.
On Thursday, before the wedding, they lay the bed in the house where the newlyweds are going to stay and throw on it rice, flowers, money and a child (usually a boy) whose parents should be in life, otherwise considered bad luck. Then there is the celebration, as it is today.
On Friday, before the wedding, the groom's relatives go to the bride's home with sweets to see her dowry (clothes, handicrafts, etc.). There they bedew her dowry with money, rice and flowers and then they celebrate.
On Saturday, the eve of the wedding, the groom's friends go to the bride's house to pick up her dowry and move it to the couple's home. After that there is a celebration again.
On Sunday, the groom starts from his home with relatives and friends and the accompaniment of the instruments to the house of the groomsman. There they are treated with wine, appetizers and snacks and then everyone goes on to church. They arrive there and wait for the bride, who also arrives with the accompaniment of an orchestra. If the groom and the bride are from different villages, the mystery takes place in the bride's village.
The mystery is followed by a great feast at the groom's house. When the newlyweds get there, at the entrance of the house, the groom's mother puts them to step on a lucky iron and feeds them walnuts with honey to make their lives sweet.
