Замок Любви - Love Locks
Here are some love locks on the bridge near the Church of Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg. (Yes, another New Year’s Resolution is to finish blogging about my Russia trip before it’s 2 years old!)
The tradition, possibly Italian in origin, is for a young married couple to write their names on the lock (замок), lock it on a bridge in a beautiful location, throw the key into the river and their love is safe forever.
In some places, the tradition can be a controversial: the locks begin to overtake public structures, but the public doesn’t want their symbols of everlasting love removed and discarded. Here are some funny pics of workers removing locks right next to the couples who are attaching them. That’s gotta be a bad omen, no?
They apparently cut them off in St. Petersburg, as well, because there were only a handful there, and they were all from the previous several days. Муж and I were there right near our anniversary (August 11th) but couldn’t find any with our wedding date. Why the heck didn’t we think to put one on ourselves? Oh well - next time!
I think this is a really cute tradition and I love how people personalize their locks. They range from the professionally engraved, to do-it-yourself with puffy paint (which would definitely be the way I’d go).
Have you locked a love lock on a bridge anywhere? (And did it work?)
