To marry in May is to suffer all your life. This is probably the most famous wedding superstition, it is also the most tenacious. Like many others, this is just a convention that sometimes makes people feel more confident. Oddly enough, today's youth pays too much attention to all kinds of superstitions.
The third spring month is named after Maya, the ancient Roman goddess of earth and fertility. Thus, "May" and the Russian "toil" is nothing more than a coincidence, a play of consonant words, which should not be given importance.
However, in the past, spring weddings have not really played out. But this was dictated by no means omens, but purely practical reasons. As you know, Russia for a long time remained an agrarian country, and many events in people's lives took place in accordance with natural cycles. Weddings are mostly played in the fall and winter when the crops are harvested and there are no special things to do. But May is a sowing season, there is no time for fun and multi-day festivities.
Traditionally, the wedding "calm" falls on the time of religious fasts. But in May, the church willingly crowns those who wish. A much more serious reason why one should refuse to perform the sacrament of marriage is the absence of genuine faith in the newlyweds, and the desire to get married only because it is fashionable and beautiful. The church has a negative attitude towards signs and superstitions, including wedding ones.
But it is necessary to think again well before taking such a serious life step as marriage or marriage. And where did this fear come from that life with your loved one would be unsuccessful if the wedding was in May? Maybe you are just not entirely sure of your chosen one? If you really love each other and are ready to do everything to make the person dear to you happy, nothing can stop you.
Look around you carefully, ask your relatives, friends, acquaintances. Perhaps you will find that there are not so few people who decide to marry in May. And they are happy. And quite the opposite, there are quite a few couples who got married, by all accounts, on happy days, but did not manage to build their happiness.
