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Traditional "Ole Time" Tobago Wedding: |
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This romantic procession was created over 40 years ago. Staged in the village of Moriah it attracts a great amount of people every year during the Tobago Heritage Festival. |
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This Ole Time Wedding follows the Courtship Codes and features the wedding along with the after ceremony festivities. Strongly reflected are the European influences on the culture of Tobago. |
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Dashing gentlemen are dressed in black and white formal three-piece suits including top hats, bow ties, and white gloves and carrying huge umbrellas to shade their female partners. |
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The women, not to be out done, are gaily adorned with 18th and 19th century bustle dresses, platform shoes, wide-brimmed hats decorated with flowers and fascinators with white gloves. |
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Heavily jeweled guests line up alongside their partners ready to "walk de wedding." |
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After the village church's ceremony, the wedding procession winds its way along the streets, dancing the "brush back" to the sweet sounds of the tambrin and fiddle. |
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The procession stops along the way to enjoy offerings of cake and wine before moving on to the reception venue. |
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A local myth which speaks to the making of the wedding garments. Locals prefer to have customized wedding dresses from the local seamstresses and tailors and it is known that these professionals should not sew the wedding garments on a “Black Friday” which is a term used to describe any Friday which falls on the 13th day of any month. |
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Local Folktale states that on the wedding day the bride must wear:. |
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And last but not least a penny in your shoe |
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Locals also believe in throwing of uncooked rice grains at the wedded couple as they enter their reception ball. This custom is said to offer blessings and prosperity to the wedded couple for the rest of their lives. |
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Another local legend speaks to the offering of your wedding cake. It is known that the married couple should cut a piece of the cake and freeze it for their 1st year Anniversary. |
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Tobago’s Nylon Pool so named by Princess Margaret on her visit there in 1962, is an offshore sandbar just behind the Buccoo Reef, a still lagoon which forms a natural, metre-deep swimming pool in the middle of the sea. Visitors brag that this should be named one of the wonders on the world. With the deep ocean on one side and palm fringed beaches on the other, the still, shallow waters and soft clean sand provide a wonderfully uplifting sybaritic bath. For the “romantic newbies”, if kissed by your loved one in the waters of the Nylon Pool it is said that you and your loved one will be in love for a lifetime. For the “romantic goldies”, if kissed by your loved one in the waters of the Nylon Pool it is said that the relationship will feel transformed into a spicy blissful love affair. |
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