Wedding Toasts for Irish Weddings
Wedding toasts are already surrounded by the aura of tradition since they have come in the format of various wishful thoughts expressed by guests with the occasion of a wedding ceremony regardless of the times and cultures. They have been around whenever a couple got married and each nation has implemented in its wedding tradition some of their culture and beliefs specificity. The same is with the Irish wedding celebrations. As they have their wedding event celebrated in their own tradition, the same goes for Irish wedding toast which has some specific annotations that have their roots deep in the nation’s myths and religious beliefs.
Generally speaking, Irish weddings are very passionate and everything that goes inside their unfolding is tightly related to the feeling of patriotism, as it is for instance reflected in the following Irish wedding toast: “Health and ling life to you/Lend without rent to you/A child every year to you/and if you can’t go to heaven/May you at least die in Ireland”. Many of these toasts come in their old Irish slang, the same way they used to be uttered centuries ago and they have been preserved almost intact throughout the celebration of a wedding occasion.
Some of the Irish wedding toasts include repeatedly almost as a pattern the wishful thoughts of the woman bearing many children, have a ‘forever’ life while man should be healthy. If the man is healthy then he would be able to provide for his numerous family and thus keep staying the pillar of the house.
Other Irish wedding toasts follow the religious percepts adjusted to the human nature and to the new married life of a man and woman, as it goes in the following: “There are 4 things you must never do: lie, steal, cheat, or drink/But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love/ If you must steal, steal away from bad company/ If you must cheat, cheat death/And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away”.
Another predominant element met in Irish wedding toasts is the relation between man and nature, the way a married couple can integrate with their new life in the cycle of nature reaching to procreate, the same way nature does every year since the beginning of the time. Religious figures and national symbolic elements are also included in these Irish wedding toasts, and as such we meet the figure of Saint Patrick – the protector of Irish people and the thistle, another symbol specific to Irish nation.
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