1, sedan

According to the number of people in sedan chair, it is divided into four sedan chair and eight sedan chair. Types are divided into dragon sedan chair and phoenix sedan chair. The traditional wedding sedan chair is full of red flowers, with silk spikes hanging at the four corners of the top and a beautiful picture of dragons and phoenixes on the body.

2, flag gongs umbrella fan

Walking in the front of the whole wedding procession, the procession is divided into two sides holding flags, gongs, umbrellas and fans to make the whole wedding procession more lively and spectacular.

3. Firecrackers

Fireworks should be set off to celebrate the wedding procession before departure, during the procession and after entering the door. Now it is difficult to achieve it in many places because of some regulations prohibiting burning and releasing.

4, crested chaplet

In ancient times, no matter whether the family was rich or poor, married women would prepare very exquisite wedding clothes for their married daughters. "rockhopper" is a crown made up of ornaments such as pompoms, pearls and jade. "Xiabi" is a brocade shawl embroidered with auspicious patterns. The married woman wears a red coat inside and a red silk outside, and wears an embroidered red skirt.

5. hijab

The bride needs to cover her head before waiting for the groom to pick her up. The cover is a three-foot red square towel, which is uncovered by her husband when she enters the bridal chamber at her husband's house. The red hijab is used to ward off evil spirits and hide shame.

6. Saddle

"Saddle" is the same as "safety", which means "peace". Generally, the saddle is placed on the threshold of the bridal chamber, and the bride and groom cross the saddle together, wishing them peace and joy all their lives.

7. brazier

"Crossing the brazier" is also an important link in traditional weddings. Before the bride enters her husband's family, the husband's family places a brazier at the gate, and the bride crosses the brazier and enters the husband's family's door, which means that the married life is booming.

8. Candles

"Wedding Candles" is an ancient way to decorate the wedding room. The wedding room is decorated with big red candles in pairs, which will also be placed in many halls. There will be colored decorations with dragon and phoenix patterns on the candles, which will light up the whole space and mean "dragon and phoenix are auspicious".

9. Weighing beam

The scale is a tool used by the groom to uncover the bride's veil. After entering the bridal chamber, the groom uses the scale to remove the red veil from the bride's head, which means "contentment".

Objects used in western-style weddings and their meanings;

1, jewelry and headdress

Headdress or jewelry represents bearing all the good things. Gifts from friends, such as skirts and ornaments, symbolize a new life. You can borrow things from anyone. It is said that gold or silver is borrowed from wealthy relatives and friends and put in your shoes, which symbolizes wealth. Some small ornaments or bouquets of the bride are blue, which means the purity and chastity of the bride.

2. White gloves

Gloves are tokens of love. In the Middle Ages, many gentlemen presented gloves to the right person to propose marriage. If the other party wears those gloves when she goes to church on Sunday, it means that she has agreed to his proposal.

3. Wedding ring

The ancients believed that the blood vessels of the left ring finger went straight to the heart. In the middle ages, the groom put the wedding ring on the bride's three fingers in turn to symbolize the trinity of the father, the son and the holy spirit, and finally put the ring on the ring finger. So the ring finger of the left hand is used as the traditional finger to wear wedding rings in all English-speaking countries.

4. Flower ball

The bride throwing the bouquet means that whoever receives it will get married soon, so we can often see such a scene: a group of ecstatic young people are waiting for the bouquet thrown by the bride.

5. Bride's bouquet

Holding flowers in hand appeared in western-style weddings, which originated from an ancient custom. Ancient Westerners believed that strong-smelling spices and herbs (even garlic and chives) could protect people at weddings from bad luck and diseases, so this habit was extended.

6. Veil

At first, the bride's veil symbolized youth and purity. Christian brides wear white veils to show purity and celebration, or blue veils to show purity like the virgin Mary. It is said that Nelly Wallace, the granddaughter of Martha Washington, the first first lady of the United States, put on a white scarf and set off a fashion when she got married. This is the origin of the bride's custom of wearing a white veil today.

7. White wedding dress

White has been a symbol of celebration since Roman times. In the Victorian era from 1850 to 1900, white was also a symbol of wealth and happiness. Later, it strengthened the meaning of holiness and loyalty, and formed the lofty status of pure white wedding dress. Women who remarry can use other colors besides white, such as pink or lake blue, to show the difference from their first marriage.

8, custom wedding cake

Since Roman times, cakes have been an indispensable part of festival ceremonies. At that time, at the end of the wedding, people would break a loaf of bread on the bride's head. Wheat, the material for making bread, symbolizes fertility.

Bread crumbs represent luck, and guests are scrambling to pick them up. According to the traditional custom in the Middle Ages, the bride and groom should kiss through the cake. Later, the imaginative baker decorated the cake with icing, which became today's beautiful and delicious wedding cake.