A wedding is the most important event for almost every person. Planning this bright day becomes exciting and unforgettable for the bride and groom. In the process of preparing for the celebration, even not too superstitious people come up with thousands of wedding signs in their heads. The "scariest" one claims that a wedding in a leap year is doomed to failure in advance. Is there evidence of this phenomenon, or is it just an empty superstition and you can safely arrange a wedding in a leap year 2016?
Leap year wedding 2016 - signs
Since ancient times, it was believed that the patron saint of a leap year is Saint Kasyan - a greedy, selfish and envious subject. People believed that he only brings bad luck and misfortune. Under such patronage, the year itself takes on bad qualities and promises many, many troubles, including in family life. But this situation is worth looking at from a more rational point of view. If you look at the statistics for interest, you can see that the number of negative events and phenomena in a leap year does not exceed the number of those in an ordinary year.
There is another belief: it is believed that more deaths occur in a leap year. But even this fact is unfounded. There has never been a global human pestilence for leap years.
Should you plan your wedding in a leap year? Are there any signs and beliefs about this? Many superstitious people will answer that you can celebrate a wedding in any year, but it is a leap year that will bring down all universal troubles and failures on a young family. This pessimistic statement can be safely refuted. It is not supported by either science or even folk traditions.
One of these traditions says that in a leap year they never went to the bride's house. The reason for this is not the "curse" at all. The explanation is quite simple: only in a leap year did the bride get the chance to send matchmakers to the groom herself, and he, in turn, had no right to refuse her (with very rare exceptions). This tradition proves once again that an unhappy leap year is just a superstition, an invention of those who do not know how to see anything good around.
What does the church say about this? Perhaps weddings are strictly prohibited in a leap year? By no means, the Orthodox Church is a zealous opponent of superstitious people and equates them with pagans. Weddings are allowed in any year.
If a family is destined for a long and happy life, not one extra day in the year can somehow ruin and ruin everything.
According to church canons, weddings are prohibited on certain days, for example, before major church holidays or during long strict fasts. There is no word about a leap year. So, church canons are another proof that a wedding in a leap year 2016 is a completely normal event.
Don't be afraid to get married in the leap year 2016! All negative statements and signs are just an unfounded echo of the not very bright past of our distant ancestors. After all, if two people sincerely love each other, then together they will be able to go through all the trials and misfortunes, forward to their bright future.
