On coming out of the church, the newly married pair receive a shower of flowers from the hands of the maidens gathered at the door.

But the ceremonies at the church by no means end the wedding festival.

What follows is peculiarly characteristic and important.

First the young men bearing the bridal cake run a race from the church to the bridegroom's house, the victor winning a silk neckerchief embroidered by the bride.

Then comes the rhymed dialogue, in which the representatives of the bride and of the groom chaffer with each other over the bride, but always with the result that the bridegroom's deputy gets the better of his opponent--yet only after the bridegroom himself has promised to be father and brother to his young wife, and to cherish her as the apple of his eye.