The article deals with marriage traditions and customs in a traditional Armenian family (as described in the sources of ethnographers, travelers and missionaries from the end of the 19th century). The accent is placed in particular on wedding rituals. The traditional family can be perceived as one of the cornerstones of Armenian identity, the foundation of ethnic/national contruction and the meas of transmission of collective memory, language, and, of course, the sense of Armenianness itself., Petra Košťálová., and Obsahuje seznam literatury