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Icon Corner
The two icons are the ones that sanctify the marriage. They are given to a couple during the wedding by the parents of the bride. When the groom and his train come to the home of the bride to pick her up for the wedding ceremony, the parents bless them by taking each of the two icons, first the Christ the Savior and then the Virgin and pressing them on the heads and backs of the couple in crosswise fashion
The couple being blessed with icons by the bride's parents. These icons are then carried by the couple in church and hang in their room when they move into the groom's home.
The couple walks around the altar carrying the icons with which the bride's parents had blessed them.
When the wedding feast is held in the home, as was done when the Latysh's youngest daughter was married in 1983, the couple sits at the table in the icon corner.
When the wedding is held in a tent rather than in the house proper, the two wedding icons are often hung in the tent above the couple. Tent weddings are the rule now because a house cannot accommodate the literally hundreds of guests who attend.
The icon corner at Baba San'ka's house. When there are icons from more than one generation, they can be placed in the corner and on the wall.