Gypsy wedding

[topum]

I am going back home to London for two days tomorrow. After that I will hop over to Copenhagen for my friend's birthday party and then I am coming back to Moldova, we still have a lot of exciting work to do here.

Today we got invited for a Gypsy wedding. The wedding will take place in July in the town of Soroca, which is home to a large Roma community. They live separately from Moldovans there on a "Gypsy Hill" in the town's centre where they build enormous and bizarre houses. There is almost no intermarriage between Roma and Moldovans. We were told that the groom and the bride will be really young, which is traditional for this community. I tried to research this a bit, but not too much, I like to be surprised when I visit places and not know everything in advance. But below is a taster for you (just first one minute is enough). Yes, the guy you see from the beginning of the video is the groom and the girl is his bride. I bet this little dude will be the coolest when he goes back to school after this wedding and will have all the attention of his buddies to tell them about all the things they really wanted to know.

And of course I will be back with pictures from the Gypsy Hill.

Comments

[topum.livejournal.com]

Another interesting and unusual thing is that when there is an age gap the bride is older than the groom in most cases not vice versa.

[wearwoolf.livejournal.com]

That was my next question! And I wondered if some of the couples that approached the bride and groom were husband and wife? If yes, the age difference is so stark! O_O

I miss KBH!!!! Safe travels, as always!

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And I miss Asia already.