Wedding Customs

British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) Book 3 Chapter 6

by Wirt Sikes

Ancient Wedding Customs of the Welsh, including the custom of bidding for wedding gifts and the importance of the person doing the Bidding! We learn how to steal a Bride away and how to reform a wife who hen-pecks her husband.

• Wedding Customs 0:54
• The Bidding 1:36
• The Gwahoddwr 3:55
• Forms of Cymmhorth 7:32
• Horse-Weddings 9:43
• Stealing of a Bride 11:24
• Obstructions to the Bridal Party 14:20
• The Gwyntyn 14:32
• Chaining 15:10
• Evergreen Arches 16:56
• Strewing Flowers 17:45
• Throwing Rice and Shoes 18:00
• Rosemary in the Garden 20:22
• Names after Marriage 23:36
• The Coolstrin 24:10
• The Ceffyl Pren 27:49

Names Used in this Section

All proper names and words in Welsh or other languages are recorded here in the show-notes and we've done our best to get the pronunciations right for you.

Cymmhorth Gwahoddwr Gwyntyn Coolstrin Ceffyl Pren Pembroke, Cardigan and Carmarthen Cardiff Ty'r Bwci Llanfair ar y Bryn Owen Gwynt Elen Morgan Llewelyn & Margaret Gwynt Evan Gwyn, Maes y Blodau Gwladys & Hannah Mary Bowen, Llwyn y Fedwen, llannon Rhys Morgan, Castell y Moch Howel, Gruffydd, & Gwenllian Morgan Pant y Clacwydd Llansadwrn Cwrw da Nos Blaen Priodas Cymmhorth Cyfarfod Cymmhorth Merry Andrew

Pic: The Old-Time Gwahoddwr

Carmarthenshire Glamorganshire Malkin 'toujours trop tard' 'Les Brigands'

Gwrando, leidr hoyw'r ddafad, Ai ti sydd yma heddyw'n geidwad? Ai dyna y rheswmcloi y drysau Rhag dwyn y wreigan liw dydd goleu

Sketty Sabines Apuleius Sabine Virgins Rector of Merthyr Tenby Herefordshire Lampeter Mr. & Mrs. Jones of Glandennis Roberts of the Dingle Williams of Pwlldu Jones of Nevada John Thomas Betty Willkiams Dick Shon skimitry or skimmington Clos (breeches) Breconshire

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