Groomsmen and the best man traditionally wear their bunads, <\/strong>which come in a variety of colors, giving the wedding a traditional as well as colorful look and feel.<\/p>\n The brud<\/strong> (bride) traditionally wears a white or a silver brudekjole<\/strong> (wedding gown). It is also common to wear a silver or silver and gold krone<\/strong> (crown). Dangling around the krone<\/strong> will be small spoon-shaped bangles. The bangles produce a melodic \u00a0musikk<\/strong> when she moves her head. Norwegian tradition holds that the music from the brud’s<\/strong> bangles will ward off evil spirits. During the bryllupsfeiring<\/strong> (wedding reception) after the bryllup<\/strong> the brud<\/strong> will dance and the bangles will scare away the evil spirits which try to spoil the brud’s<\/strong> happiness.<\/p>\n Traditionally the brudepiker<\/strong> (bridesmaids), dressed similarly (but not the same) as the brud<\/strong> will confuse any evil spirits and further help protect the brud<\/strong> from evil influences.<\/p>\n \u00a0brylluper\u00a0<\/strong>will use the traditional Norwegian tune \u201cCome to the Wedding\u201d and often the happy par<\/strong> (couple) will be escorted out of the church after the seremoni<\/strong> (ceremony) to the music of the trekkspill<\/strong> \u00a0(accordion).<\/p>\n At the conclusion of the seremoni<\/strong> the brud<\/strong> and brudgom<\/strong> exchange gold or silver gifteringer<\/strong> (wedding rings) and the traditional bryllup kiss<\/strong> (wedding kiss), which symbolically seals the relationship between the mann<\/strong> (husband) and his kone<\/strong> (wife). The round ring, with no beginning and no end traditionally represents never-ending love and the kiss historically represents the exchange of a portion of each other\u2019s souls.<\/p>\n A lavish bryllupsfeiring<\/strong> follows the seremoni.<\/strong> At the reception there are many, many taler<\/strong> (speeches) as guests and family wish the new couple much happiness, and there is a great deal of music and dance as well. The tables at the reception are often decorated with blokaker<\/strong> (layer) cakes or with a \u201cbrudlaupskling\u201d wedding cake which is a flour cake covered with a mixture of cheese, cream and syrup.<\/p>\n Then, finally, two small fir trees are planted on either side of the door to the couple\u2019s home as a symbol of the children to come.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are few places more beautiful to hold a wedding than in the various beautiful and romantic landscapes of Norway. In Norway, the brudgrom (groom) traditionally wears a hand-made woolen suit known as a bunad. The bunad consists of a white silk shirt, short pants and stockings that come up to the calf, a vest…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2011\/12\/images-13.jpeg\")