Wedding

Wedding : Marriage is the legitimate union of two persons under the conditions provided for by law. It is both a social and religious event in which the meal de ceremony occupies a privileged position.
According to the New Testament, it is wedding de Cana that Jesus changed thewater en wine, which shows that, from the earliest antiquity, the backgammon was the place par excellence where two families who had just come together.

During meal seigniorial or royal marriages of the past, the revelry lasted several days. For the occasion, the people were offered meat roasted, cakes and public fountains of wine.
On the occasion of marriages with princes or princesses from foreign countries, various food (fruits and vegetables from Italy, chocolate from Spain) were thus introduced in France.

Closer to us, it is in the campaigns, where theordinary was long enough poor et monotone, that the meal of wot lasted the longest, sometimes several days, and accumulated the largest number ofinput, fishs cold (in bellevue), dishes meat, desserts.
The main element that distinguishes the meal de wot others meal de Party stay the one or more cakes, remarkable by their dimensions.
Nowadays, the cake is often rigorous, but the pâtisseries nuptials, formerly more differentiated, are still appreciated.
Thus, in the Southeast and in Burgundy, marzipan and Savoy biscuits superimposed formed showpieces of good height.
In Pyrenees and in Rouergue (*) , the " cake on the spit » jagged et doré, cooked in front of the hearth, was impressive.
But it is in Vendée that cake de wot stayed the most extraordinary : spoiled him (or Vendée brioche), offered by the godparents of the spouses, is a huge brioche, round (up to 1,30 m in diameter) or rectangular (2,50 m by 80 cm), which can weigh 35 kg. The bride cutting ce cake monumental and distributes a Part every guest, and as many portions that there are relatives not present at the wedding. The rites of sharing and distribution are found in all regions.
Often the cake was only eaten after a few days, in every home, to better evoke the memory of the ceremony. This custom was approaching the traditional British who wanted parts du wedding cake, also divided by the bride, be sent by post, in small boîtes golden et decorated, specially intended for this purpose, to relatives and friends scattered throughout the empire.
(*) Le Rouergue is a former province of the South of France corresponding approximately to the current department ofAveyron. After being part of the county of Toulouse, it was attached to Guyenne before being detached during the formation of the province of Haute-Guyenne in 1779.

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