It is traditional to give the couple two icons to bless their marriage. These are carried on ritual clothes during the wedding and hung over the couples' bed, surrounded by a rushnyk, in the home. A street vendor selling wedding rushnyky in Kyiv. The ritual cloths can be bought in a wedding salon. They can be purchased on the street.
Many street vendors sell hand-made rushnyky, often their own work.
Rushnyky can also be ordered from the many professional embroiderers in each city. During the wedding banquet held for the couple in Krut'ky. This group sat in the corner because they wanted to sing old wedding songs, many of which had an openly erotic content. Ritual breads baked for the wedding in Krut'ky, August 15, 1998. The breads on the left are called shyskky and the squarish bread on the right is a korovai.