The Caucasus is famous for its hospitality, fun, hundred-year-old wise elders in the mountains and, of course, unsurpassed Caucasian wine. Caucasian highlanders drink wine not from glasses or glasses, as is customary among us, but from a horn. Before this they make a toast.
A Caucasian horn with wine is not a shot of vodka that you can knock over by saying short toast"For health!". The fact is that a horn filled with wine cannot be placed on the table - it must be drunk to the bottom. Therefore, it was in the Caucasus that wonderful Armenian and Georgian toasts were born. The toast should be long and meaningful - you need to somehow mentally prepare yourself to drink the horn of wine to the bottom.
Especially colorful and dashingly twisted Armenian and Georgian toasts are made at weddings.
Caucasian residents revere a wedding as a particularly solemn day not only for the newlyweds, but for their entire family. Georgian toasts for a wedding will make your wedding interesting and unforgettable. And, if, when making a toast, you also successfully imitate a Georgian accent, then the performance will be received with a bang, and all other toasts will pale in comparison with yours.
Toast examples
One wise old man was asked:
– Why does this happen in life: there are many friends who become enemies, but there are practically no enemies who become friends?
The elder gave this answer:
- Look at the house - it is easier to destroy than to build. And money is spent quickly, but it takes a long time to earn it. And a fragile clay vessel breaks instantly, but it is difficult to create it.
So let's drink to our newlyweds to create, build and earn money in their lives.
In one mountain village, a young girl and a hot guy once met. Their love was strong and they soon got married.
We lived well, and then my husband got ready to go on a business trip. “Don’t worry, dear,” he told his wife. - I'll be home in five days.
Five days have passed, ten, twenty... But the husband does not return. The frightened wife remembered ten of his friends living in different villages, and sent telegrams to all of them: “Do you know where my husband might be?” The next day she received ten identical answers: “Don’t worry, your husband is staying with me.”
So let's drink to friends who won't let you down!
In the Caucasus mountains there are many centenarians, strong and healthy. And all because those days that a person spends with his friends, in good company, do not count towards age.
Let's drink to our young people, who gathered friends for the wedding today and thereby extended their lives!
There lived a cheerful young horseman in the mountains. He had many friends, they often came to visit, and the owner always treated them to good wine and barbecue. When the guy decided to get married, he asked his father to send out invitations to his friends.
The wedding was magnificent - all the relatives came, but for some reason there were no friends.
- Father, did you invite my friends? – the puzzled son asked his father.
“Of course,” answered the father. – But I wrote briefly “Help needed” and, as you can see, no one came.
I want to drink to my young friends who come not only to the wedding, but also at those moments when their help is needed.
One man was righteous and a believer. When his life ended, he went to heaven with God. For his righteous life, God allowed him to live on earth for many more years and presented him with three chests so that he would open them only when he returned home.
On the way to earth, the man could not resist opening one chest. Joy flew out of him and flew far away. The confused man opened another chest - love flew out of it and dissolved in the heavens.
Clutching the last chest to his chest, the man returned to the ground and opened it there. Hope came out of the chest, and the man stayed with it.
So let's drink to the young so that they never lose joy, love, or hope!
Once at a wedding, the toastmaster raised his glass of wine to make a toast. Silence reigned, and at that moment the toastmaster felt with horror that his stomach was twisting and he needed to release the gas. Then he made the following decision: he would say a toast, then fire a pistol and do his job under the gunfire. But the weapon failed and did not fire. But the stomach did its job.
Out of great shame, the toastmaster ran away from the wedding high into the mountains and lived there alone.
Ten years later, he went down to the village and asked the first person he met: “What’s new with you?” To which he said:
- Eh, just like ten years ago one toastmaster farted at a wedding, there was nothing else new.
So let's drink so that our intentions do not diverge from our deeds!
Old Georgian wisdom says:
If you want happiness for one day, drink a glass of wine!
If you want happiness for one month, have a wedding!
If you want happiness for one year, fall in love secretly!
If you want happiness for the rest of your life, take care of your health!
For the health of the young!
Let there be sadness, grief, and misfortune in the lives of our dear newlyweds. But exactly how many drops of wine I will leave in this glass!
A dog was sitting on the bank of a stormy river. A snake crawled up to him and asked:
- I don’t know how to swim, take me to the other side.
“Won’t you bite me?” - asked the dog.
“No,” the snake promised.
She crawled out onto the dog's neck. They are floating. In the middle of the river, the snake bit the dog.
- What have you done! - the dog screamed. - We'll both drown! You promised me!
“What can you do about it,” answered the snake. - This is my feminine nature.
So let's drink to the unpredictable female nature so that it never costs us our lives!
One day in the mountains, a small pack of wolves attacked ten hunters and tore them all to pieces. Another time, a wolf pack attacked three hunters. After a bloody battle, all the wolves were killed.
Why did the wolves tear apart ten, but could not cope with three? Because the first time it was just ten hunters, and the second time it was three best friends.
So let's drink to the newlyweds, let them be surrounded by friends with whom no problems are scary!
A young Georgian sits on the river bank and fishes. Not far away, a young girl decided to take a swim. She undressed, and the horseman said to her:
- Eh, beauty, swimming in this river is prohibited.
- Why didn’t you tell me this when I hadn’t undressed yet? – the girl was indignant.
“Eh, listen, undressing in this place is not prohibited,” the horseman answered.
So let's drink to the women present here so that they ask less unnecessary questions.
An eastern wedding is a magnificent celebration with strictly observed traditions and rituals. Particular attention is paid to generous and plentiful food, because wedding table symbolizes well-fed and rich life young spouses. As a rule, during the festive feast, guests make wedding toasts. Oriental toasts-wishes extremely beautiful, exquisite and subtly convey the age-old wisdom of their ancestors.
Kazakh toasts for a wedding
A traditional Kazakh wedding involves inviting numerous relatives from the bride and groom to the celebration. Each guest during the holiday must make at least one toast in honor of the newlyweds. We present several.
Congratulations on your wedding day! We wish you to keep your love! May all your dreams come true! Live long hand in hand - many years! We wish you many happy years to come! We wish you health, wealth, peace and warmth in your life! May you always have fun! We wish you a long and happy life with lots of kids! Let the road be bright, let the family be friendly!
Congratulations on your legal marriage! We wish you pure love like the snow of the Alatau peaks, crystal clear love like the streams of Alatau. We wish you prosperity, good health like the frost of winter, the life of spring and the warmth of summer heat. To have bead daughters and a dozen boys. We wish you all the best that there is on earth!
Dear newlyweds! Congratulations on your legal marriage! From the bottom of our hearts we wish you to keep your love forever! Today is the happiest day of your life. People say: “Is it easy to get married? It’s difficult to create a family.” I want to wish you mutual understanding, love and harmony! We wish you to carry your happiness throughout your life!
Tatar toasts for a wedding
A toast at a Tatar wedding is wishes in the form of a parable, endowed with wise sense. Toasts from the parents of the newlyweds occupy a special place at the celebration. After all, the wishes of parents always come from the heart and are filled with great tenderness and hope for happy life their children.
There comes a moment in everyone's life when he becomes responsible not only for his own destiny, but also for the destiny of another person. Neither man nor woman, no matter how good they are in themselves, yet represent harmony. And only together, only together, uniting hearts and souls, they form that beautiful unity, which is called perfection. Today our young people are one whole and it is in their will to give the world a new harmony, to bring a new particle of love and goodness. And this moment is magnificent! Look at the young people, remember these moments. Raise your glasses and wish them happiness, joy and goodness! Wish them fulfillment of their hopes!
Our dear children! Today is the greatest day in your life, the day of fulfillment of your most cherished, most important desire. Today you were united by love. Just as any journey begins with the first step, so your family begins today. Today is the first day of your family, the first day of your honeymoon and your honeymoon. We want everything to be fine with you, so that nothing overshadows this first, honeyed, greenest year of your marriage. And to make it joyful and calm, we decided to insure you. Accept this policy as a safe conduct for your happiness, your first, most joyful and difficult year life together. Love each other and be happy!
Dear newlyweds! With all my heart I wish you to celebrate at least ten more weddings in your life: paper - in a year, glass - in two years, seasoned - in three years, chintz - in five years, bronze - in ten years, porcelain - in fifteen, crystal - in twenty, silver - in twenty-five, gold - in fifty, diamond - in seventy-five. I also wish that all today’s guests will certainly attend all these weddings. Let's drink to the fulfillment of this wish and the happiness of the young!
Caucasian toasts for a wedding
Every word in the Caucasian toast - gem eloquence and wisdom. Indeed, they combine the beauty and poetry of the highlanders, as well as the best traditions of this proud people. Do you want to please the newlyweds and surprise them? wedding guests? For your attention - several Caucasian toasts.
Mountain sages often repeat to grooms: “If you want happiness to visit you for a day, drink wine. If you expect happiness for two days, drink wine and eat meat. If you want to be happy all your life, then don’t just love, but respect, take care of and take into account the opinion of your wife!” Let's raise a glass to our newlywed who made right choice and took as his wife a woman whom one cannot help but appreciate!
Smart people say that a man is obliged to make his wife happy. What else can bring happiness to a woman, if not children? Let's drink to the fact that our newlywed brings his wife so much happiness that it would be enough for a whole kindergarten!
Caucasian wisdom says: if a kind person wants to live in the same beautiful place for a month, he must sow corn there, if for a year, he must build a house, and if for his whole life, then raise a child. Let's raise our glasses to the fact that our dear parents sowed more than one cornfield, built a beautiful house and raised such wonderful children!
Armenian toasts for a wedding
An Armenian wedding usually takes place with great pomp and ceremony. Ancient customs and rituals - an important part any celebration. A special place is also occupied by the words spoken by numerous guests as parting words and wishes to the newlyweds.
The belief says that the parents of love are the eyes and the heart! I raise this wine glass so that the hearts of our young people will glow, and our eyes will be vigilant, long and long years. Let's drink to the bottom for the eternal ability to love!
I want to propose a toast to the fact that this table will never become scanty, that it will break and even sag from the weight of wines and dishes, and that such cheerful, good and happy people will always sit around it as they are now!
They once asked a very smart and old man: “Why is it very difficult to turn enemies into friends, but easy to turn friends into enemies?” The sage’s simple answer made people think: “Yes, because it is easier to destroy a house than to build it, it is easier to waste coins than to earn them, and it is easier to give up love than to work on a relationship!” I propose a toast to our newlyweds for overcoming all life’s difficulties! For hard work and determination!
Georgian toasts for a wedding
Like all oriental wedding toasts, Georgian “table” wishes are always filled with special meaning and folk wisdom. According to custom, each invited guest must say a toast to the newlyweds - often in the form of a parable or poem. And how beautiful real Georgian toasts sound! Here are some of them.
In Georgia they say that the husband is a falcon, looking from the height of his flight to the ground and looking for prey, and the wife is a turtledove, hatching chicks, creating comfort in the nest and eagerly awaiting her husband. So let's drink to these young people, to their marital happiness and family well-being!
May Almighty God grant you
Strong family
Carts full of goodness.
And may your family be numerous:
Mother and father, brothers and sisters, many daughters-in-law.
May you have many children,
Beautiful and smart!
The ancient Indian treatise “Peach Branches” says: the needs of the soul give rise to friendship, the needs of the mind - respect, the needs of the body - desire. All three needs give rise to true love. Let us drink so that we always have these needs, and we love and are loved.
Dagestan wedding toasts
Dagestan weddings are musical, cheerful and crowded. The festive feast is necessarily “oriental”, generous and plentiful - well, a feast for the whole world! One of the ancient traditions at a Dagestan wedding is beautiful, eloquent toasts and wishes to the newlyweds. The newlyweds and all wedding guests will be pleased to hear such a congratulation.
A woman is a ray of sunshine that illuminates the darkness of our lives. So let’s drink so that everyone has time to grab this ray, just as our friend managed to catch the whole sun, which illuminates our close circle today. For the bride, the future mistress of this house!
You, my daughter, are going to a stranger’s house.
And each house is a power in itself.
There only one king has the right
To be a king is your husband, your chosen one.
Be obedient to him. His vices
Know how to soften. Don't darken your face.
And remember, daughter, that by that road,
There is no end to where people are looking for the perfect ones.
Preparation of moonshine and alcohol for personal use
absolutely legal!
After the collapse of the USSR, the new government stopped the fight against moonshine. Criminal liability and fines were abolished, and the article banning the production of alcohol-containing products at home was removed from the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. To this day, there is not a single law that prohibits you and me from engaging in our favorite hobby - preparing alcohol at home. This is evidenced by the Federal Law of July 8, 1999 No. 143-FZ “On the administrative liability of legal entities (organizations) and individual entrepreneurs for offenses in the field of production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products” (Collection of Legislation Russian Federation, 1999, N 28, art. 3476).
Excerpt from Federal Law RF:
“The effect of this Federal Law does not apply to the activities of citizens (individuals) producing products containing ethyl alcohol for purposes other than sale.”
Moonshining in other countries:
In Kazakhstan in accordance with the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Administrative Offenses dated January 30, 2001 N 155, the following liability is provided. Thus, according to Article 335 “Manufacture and sale of home-made alcoholic beverages”, illegal production of moonshine, chacha, mulberry vodka, mash and other alcoholic beverages for the purpose of sale, as well as the sale of these alcoholic beverages, entails a fine in the amount of thirty monthly calculation indices with confiscation of alcoholic beverages , apparatus, raw materials and equipment for their manufacture, as well as money and other valuables received from their sale. However, the law does not prohibit the preparation of alcohol for personal use.
In Ukraine and Belarus things are different. Articles No. 176 and No. 177 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses provide for the imposition of fines in the amount of three to ten tax-free minimum wages for the production and storage of moonshine without the purpose of sale, for the storage of devices* for its production without the purpose of sale.
Article 12.43 repeats this information almost word for word. “Production or acquisition of strong alcoholic beverages (moonshine), semi-finished products for their production (mash), storage of apparatus for their production” in the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses. Point No. 1 states: “Manufacturing individuals strong alcoholic drinks (moonshine), semi-finished products for their production (mash), as well as storage of devices* used for their production - entail a warning or a fine of up to five basic units with confiscation of these drinks, semi-finished products and devices.”
*Purchase moonshine stills for home use it is still possible, since their second purpose is to distill water and obtain components for natural cosmetics and perfumes.
Georgian toast for a wedding will be a decoration for any wedding, they are beautiful, funny, wise best congratulations for newlyweds.
Georgian wedding toasts in verse
A merchant and a scientist were sailing on a ship. The merchant was rich and carried a lot of goods with him. Suddenly a storm arose and the ship was wrecked. Only the merchant and the scientist were saved. The merchant sees that the scientist is sitting, depressed, and says to him:
- Why are you sad? It was I who lost all my wealth, and yours is all with you.
- So let’s drink to the wealth that cannot be lost - to the Love of our newlyweds.
Beautiful Georgian toasts for a wedding
A woman came to Nasreddin and began to ask him to help cure her husband of his addiction to drinking.
“I’m not a doctor,” Nasreddin said. - But I can give advice. Does your husband have any big dreams? Of course, not a fairy tale, but one that can be performed?
“Yes,” the woman said after thinking.
- Very good! - Nasreddin was happy. - Promise him: if he stops drinking, then you will fulfill this dream.
“Okay, I’ll try,” the woman said and, bowing, left.
And when I came home, I explained to my husband:
“I’ll tell you what, dear: if you stop drinking, I’ll give you half a liter every day.”
So let's drink so that your wife can always fulfill her wishes, turning a dream into reality!
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Cool Georgian toasts for a wedding
High in the mountains of Kakheti lived an eagle with eaglets and small eaglets. One day, returning from a hunt, the eagle decided to test his eagle, check how brave she was, how she protected the nest and eaglets from strangers... He put on the skin of a tiger and began to slowly approach the nest... The eagle, seeing a tiger sneaking towards the nest, boldly rushed at him. Wow, how she pecked at him, beat him with her wings, and tore him with her claws!!! And without even allowing her to come to her senses, she was thrown to the very bottom of the deepest gorge.
So let's drink to the fact that no matter what the husband looks like when he comes home, his wife will always recognize him!
Georgian toasts for a wedding
As one Georgian proverb says: “ Friendly family will move a mountain." So let's drink to the fact that mutual understanding and mutual support will always reign in your family, and then you won't care about any troubles. Let's drink to the friendly family!
Cool Georgian wedding toasts
An old Georgian proverb says: “One’s own wife and shelter are more valuable than any gifts.” There is no happier person in the world than the one who has his own home, where he is always welcome and loved. May love and understanding never leave your home. Here's to strong family ties!
Georgian toasts for the wedding of the newlyweds
Georgians have this saying: “A husband, if he says that his wife is like his mother, loves and idolizes her. And if he stops loving his wife, he says that she looks like her mother.” So may you always imagine your own mothers when you look at each other, and let prosperity and love always live in your home! Let's drink to your friendly family!
In one distant Georgian village there lived a Georgian with his wife, children and parents. He had one problem: very often at night he had a headache. He turned to many doctors and healers with his troubles. Nobody could help him. And the pain was sometimes unbearable, as if my head was splitting.
The Georgians decided to go to the old sage, who was already reaching the end of his life. That old man lived in the most remote village. He walked for a long time through high mountains, through dense forests and finally came to the village in which the sage lived. He told the elder about his torment. And the sage looked at him and said:
“Only one remedy will help you: lock your dissolute wife in the farthest room of the house and don’t let anyone near her.” Yours headache- from the erupting horns of which your missus is guilty.
The Georgian came back to his village, silently dragged his wife into the far corner of his house and calmly went to bed. From that night on, his head never hurt again.
So let's drink to marital fidelity, without which there can be no strong marriage! For love, loyalty, honesty and trust between spouses.
Georgian wedding toasts are a completely unique phenomenon of a wonderful tradition that has no analogues in world culture. Today its features can be studied on the Internet, but how wonderful it is to hear it from the lips of a national virtuoso of the word!
Georgia, its traditions and customs that have no beginning or end, is an amazing, mysterious and beautiful country.
Many refer to special occasions. These are noisy, crowded and colorful wedding celebrations that have no equal on the planet. No one will deny that the custom of making a speech at a wedding while holding a glass of wine is as old as the world.
Wine and crystal, where a ray of sunlight plays and shimmers, repeatedly reflected in the edges, creates a unique magic of traditions and seems to require you to say everything that lies on your soul. Traditions, toasts and speeches at weddings in the Caucasus have always attracted attention with their elegant expressions, wishes for the newlyweds and that unique effect of a broad southern soul.
How beautiful is a wedding with Georgian toasts?
If a wedding was and remains a sacred event among all peoples, then Georgian wishes and toasts during marriage become real works of fine literature. At all times, people had the custom of praying before starting a meal in solemn conditions. The Georgian toast has become a real miniature prayer for the main values that have always been sacred to Georgians.
The newlyweds were encouraged to remember the health of their loved ones, their deceased ancestors, and gratitude to their mothers during their wedding toasts. In this address, the elders of two clans spoke about those enduring values that in most cases are forgotten in the turbulent rhythm of modern life. The classic Georgian toast is usually distinguished by its sublimity and heartfelt sincerity, a strictly defined sequence of wishes and a clear rhythm of their utterance. A Georgian elegant toast is a skillfully delivered short or long solemn speech for a wedding, which includes not only wishes, but also a large folk wisdom acquired over centuries.
In the Caucasus, it is customary to make several types of toasts. Georgian customs and traditions are fascinating and very close to our compatriots. If the welcoming toast is short, then in cases it is no more than eighty or a hundred words, which needs to contain everything that needs to be said to the young couple who are getting married. Here are the most basic, according to Georgians, life values, traditions and customs that need to be passed on to the young. This is the most concentrated idea possible, the idea of how important it is for young spouses to live in strict compliance with the moral and ethical traditions of their ancestors.
A wedding is not just a celebration, it is a moment of birth new family, which in itself is a very important and responsible moment in Georgia. If in modern society It is customary to minimize this part of the wedding, to congratulate with words found on the Internet or in widely distributed reference books and collections, then the speech, taking into account the traditions of the past, is much more magnificent and solemn. The Georgian magnificent wedding toast is a real parable about how the ancestors lived, what their customs and traditions were, the way of life in the family, how important mutual respect between spouses and reverence for elders and family foundations of the past are.
Who conducts the wedding celebration and how?
Very important person The person who presides over the wedding feast is the toastmaster. He guides the beautiful speeches of elders and respected guests, adding elements of legends, proverbs, catchwords and sayings to them famous people. This sorcerer of a banquet and folk feast, a magnificent wedding or a modest festive dinner is assigned the role of the one who leads the outline of any event, observing all traditions and customs. And only in Georgia can you meet a real toastmaster for a wedding, experienced psychologist and a virtuoso improviser who comes up with toasts and congratulations, jokes and wedding games just on the go. He subtly subconsciously feels how and where to direct the course of the holiday.
A Georgian wedding or wedding toast can be a real apotheosis of the celebration; it is a parable, a fairy tale, a legend and even a poem. Compared with numerous varieties wedding jokes, music, competitions in folk and modern dances, ancient drinking songs, the famous Georgian toasts prepared for a wedding are real pearls at any celebration.
That commitment modern people material benefits are very strong and this is reflected in the traditions of the wedding celebration; the toast has been and will remain the most important episode of the banquet. Those who want to show off their eloquence using Caucasian congratulations found on the Internet should not forget that no matter how beautiful the Georgian wedding toasts distributed on the networks are, the best ones will be pure sincere words and wishes. Those who like a classic toast should remember that such a match consists of a background story and the actual wish.
A little about the principles of toast
The main ones should be considered two immutable truths. The Georgian wedding toast is a huge layer of the culture of the heroic people. It is always worth remembering that a real wedding toast is not a reason for parody or ridicule on the part of the ball participants. And only pure thoughts and intentions can make all your wishes for a young couple come true. May they live happily ever after.
