The “goûter matrimonial” (wedding tea):Calling all singletons on Pentecost Monday

It was his desire to remedy the lack of marriages in Ecaussinnes that encouraged Marcel Tricot to come up with the idea of organising the first wedding tea as a bit of a joke in 1903, in honour of youth. So on Pentecost Monday, all the single young ladies in the village would lay on a fantastic tea for the bachelors, to meet each other and forge new relationships. Ever since, every Pentecost, the whole population gets together to relive the traditional tea by organising a series of events throughout the village, including a parade, an exhibition, a craft market, a second-hand sale and concerts.