Red has been maintained as the favorite color choice for the bride's dress, candles, gift boxes, and the money envelopes that are presented to her. The cake sometimes is decorated with marzipan medallions bearing portraits of the bride and groom. Brides wear golden crowns. After the wedding, the single guests form a circle and dance around the bride, who is blindfolded. The bride and groom are given seats of honor at the reception There the bride holds a sieve, covered with a silk shawl.
Guests come by to slip money into the sieve.
Their names and the amounts of their gifts are announced publicly by a groomsman. The bride, in turn, may step on his foot as she rises, as a sign that she is reasserting herself. The koumbaros, traditionally the groom's godfather, is an honored guest who participates in the wedding ceremony. Today, the koumbaros is usually the best man. It is his responsibility to help crown the couple.