Thread: Wedding Celebrations

Originally Posted by MrsKlug

Also, I remember my grandmother saying something about bread and pumpkins. Like when a boy ask a girl to marry and she gives him a pumpkin it means that she is saying yes or no... I wasn't really paying attention (nervous excitement and all). I wish I did! Does anyone know what that means? Or what she was talking about?

I don't know whether it was a real tradition or not but it was mocked in a comedy movie "Maksim Perepelitsa" (imdb, wiki-rus). A young man when going to serve in army sent a pumpkin to every other young man in the village pretending that it was sent by his girl-friend to make all the young men to think that his girl-friend doesn't like any of them. So he wanted to be sure that she would wait him and would not have any affairs with someone else.

Ha Ha okay... so maybe a pumpkim will mean a negative response to a wedding proposal probably. That is the name of the movie? Maybe I can try to watch it sometime. My Russian is not that great. But, I can try. And maybe it will have subtitles, like a lot of movies now do.

Originally Posted by MrsKlug

That is the name of the movie?

Yes, the movie is named after the name of the main character "Maksim Perepelitsa" (Максим Перепелица, 1955).