Korovai ( Wedding bread) is a large round braided bread baked from wheat flour often decorated with various symbols and figures that’s given to the bride and groom as a marriage blessing

It is believed that the person who steps on the Ukrainian wedding rushnyk first, will wear the pants in the family, so to say, and have the final say throughout the marriage.

In Ukraine blessing typically takes place shortly before the wedding ceremony and involves the parents and grandparents giving their blessings to the couple.

One of the Ukrainian traditions says that You must not cross the road in front of the bride and the groom when they go to the registry office, or church.

Every wedding toast begins with a famous Ukrainian phrase “Hirko!”, meaning “bitter”, which indicates that the bride and groom have to kiss.

If the bride-to-be's parents do not approve of the match they will send the young man home with a pumpkin so that he does not leave completely empty-handed

Usually Ukrainian weddings start with the buyout of the Bride

The groom has to go to the bride’s parents' house to pay the ransom to get his bride.

One of the Ukrainian wedding reception traditions is the “kidnapping of the groom”.

The bride should make an embroidered wedding towel (rushnyk) by herself, because noone wishes the future family more success than the actual bride.

A Ukrainian wedding ring finger is on the left hand.

In Ukraine the father of the Bride does not walk the Bride down the aisle