Weddings

[tc573]

I am looking for some material to use at my friends wedding. Is there any Greek mythology that involves weddings pre wedding nights etc

[Clanad]

A Greek bride may carry a lump of sugar on her wedding day to ensure she has a sweet life,or she might carry ivy, as a symbol of endless love.
Dishes are smashed on the floor for good luck and money is thrown at the musicians.
Candy coated almonds, called koufeta are served to the guests as reception party favors.
The fourth day of the month, according to Hesiod , was the most favourable day; and as in a lunar month this would be the day on which the first crescent of the new moon appeared, and the day when sun and moon meet in the same quarter of the heavens was the day when man and woman might best meet in wedlock..
At the end of the ceremony, the guests should shout, in unison "Ho, Hymen! Ho, Hymen! Hymenæous! Io!" , accompanied by dancing maidens.. (Hey! you asked the question!)
As the bride exits the ceremony, she should stop and eat a quince.
(The dowry has already been given, no? At the time of the betrothal the dowry of the bride was completed, and this was a most important point for her future welfare. For the wife was reckoned to have no claim at all on her husband's property.)
On the wedding day itself bride and bridegroom bathed in water drawn from a particular fountain of running water: at Athens this was the fountain Callirrho�, also called henneakrounos ( Thuc.ii. 15). The water from this fountain was carried either by a boy or a girl, from which custom was probably derived that other custom of placing over the tombs of those who died unmarried the image of a girl carrying water (According to Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

Good luck!