Bridesmaid

The bridesmaids were originally there to deflect evil spirits from the bride. They dressed nice clothes on to similarly see the bride, and thus to confuse the evil spirits: If an evil spirit to decide to want to occupy the bride, he had several same -clad women to choose from and could not determine what the real bride was. The bridesmaid thus constituted a protection against all spiritual dangers dar. Her male counterpart, the groomsman, had originally commissioned to protect the bride before earthly dangers as looters.

Nowadays, the bridesmaid is often after the maid of honor the most important helper of the bride in the preparations for the wedding reception. You should be unmarried and the bride know very well, perhaps even with her or the groom be related. On the wedding day, the bridesmaid is the most important help for the bride; accompanying them in the wedding procession to the church or go with the best man just behind the bride and groom, wearing a possibly existing train and takes her during the wedding ceremony the bride's bouquet from.