November 2010 Weddings
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Easter Trees
Growing up, my family always put up an "Easter Tree" or "Egg Tree" and I've seen them at some other people's homes. However, it seems like it's not that common a custom and a lot of people have never heard of it. So I was just wondering:
Do you or your family put one up?
What culture do you belong to (or do you know where this comes from)?
Do you use real eggs or are they made of wood or something else?
My family always had lamb for Easter, as did many of the people I grew up with. In college I found out a lot of people have ham... So, lamb or ham? And is this also cultural?
Re: Easter Trees
We typically have ham, though we have had lamb chops in the past (only one or 2 easters) - dont think its cultural in our case.
As for an easter tree - we've never done one, and I've never seen one, but I love the idea - do you use a pine tree (like a christmas tree?) or some other type of tree?
Also real tree or fake tree?
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The ones I've seen have been homemade fake trees but made out of real branches held together somehow at the base. I saw this one today:
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/easter-tree/?pkey=cdecor-easter
Our place is really too small for this kind of thing but hopefully I can get one next year. My mom originally did real eggs (blown out and painted), and then switched to wooden ones.
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That's our situation, so it's definitely out of the question this year... but I admit I wanted it sooooo much when I saw it lol!
I have heard of them! Some are really pretty with very ornate eggs and some are homemade. We have never done these, but my mother (Polish-American) loves to collect artistic representations of eggs (stone eggs, Russian eggs, etc) and put them on display so that's sort of a half-way Easter tree.
In regards to a meal... I've had both lamb and ham. I think lamb is a nod to the Passover Sedar. I have no idea regarding the ham.
Another tradition we often keep: Easter Vigil. It's bigger and longer than Christmas midnight Mass (about 3 hours) with the first part in darkness, holding candles lit by the Easter candle (which is typically lit from a fire pit). It's pretty stunning.
Our Easter Mass very similar. Actually, I sometimes go to Orthodox Easter instead (this year and last Catholic and Orthodox Easter was the same day) which is also beautiful. One Episcopal church here does an Easter procession during Mass and it ends with breakfast for everyone!
We also have what you so accurately called egg representations, mostly of the Ukrainian style, which make it into various Easter arrangements.