Something similar that I've seen on the West Coast of the US are money dances, where guests can dance with the groom or bride in exchange for some cash.Izesicle wrote:In some parts of our country, wedding guests would pin money through the bride's and groom's clothes. I think it's a good practical tradition.
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This is actually just a few of the pre-wedding rituals and the wedding and post-wedding rituals are an entirely different story. But my favourite part of the wedding ritual is the baraat, when the groom's family and friends go towards the wedding venue followed by the groom riding a horse, in a procession of music and dancing.
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wow, what a tradition! Would love me a down payment on a house lol.kislany wrote:In my country, the bride and groom don't receive gifts, but more like money in an envelope. The two stand (for hours sometimes) welcoming people that form a line passing in from of them, congratulating them and giving them envelopes with money. These envelopes are gathered in some kind of box, which will be open once the wedding is over, and then the money counting can start. Some people (when there are over 1000 folks invited) can actually get enough money for a down payment on a house.
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Before a marriage occurs, the groom is expected to investigate the girls' family. This is done to ensure that the girl to be married is from a good family. For example in terms off, she does not come from a family of witches or lazy people. Also it is done to investigate the girls beauty and mannerism. This findings are then reported to the uncles and father of the groom and if satisfactory, a date to visit the brides family is set.
When the groom comes to see the brides family, he should be accompanied by his father and his elder brother and two of his uncles. The bride price is agreed upon during this meeting and then the bride is called in to the meeting after the negotiations are over in order for her to be shown off. The bride is expected to be shy when she is showing herself off in front of the groom and his family in order for her not to come out as headstrong. The bride is then sent away and then the men drink as a show of agreement.
If the bride price of a woman is not paid or part of it is not paid before the wedding, it is believed that the woman will die while giving birth.
Before the marriage, there is usually a ceremony where the girl to be married invites her female friends in order to say goodbye as she gets ready to begin her married life. In this ceremony, a goat or a sheep is slaughtered and the bride to be, approaches the men and requests for meat that she is going to feed her friends. There are specific parts that only women can eat and those that only men can eat. It is considered a taboo for one to eat meat intended for either side.
During the wedding, there is a piece of meat that both the man and woman hold as an elder cuts it. This piece of meat that was cut, they feed each other to symbolize their union
It is also considered a taboo for a woman to get married when she is not a virgin. If it became known that the girl lost her virginity before marriage, both the man and the woman will be taken deep in the forest and left there for dead. Or the woman can be married off to a very elderly man. If a woman gives birth out off wedlock, her breasts are pressed until they produce milk and that child would always be considered an outcast. In the event that her bride price was already paid, the bride price is returned to the groom.
We also believe an uncircumsed man cannot marry because he is considered a child in the eyes of the society.
However, some of this believes were practised a long time ago and in today's world, we don't practise some of them like those of pressing a womans breasts till they produce milk or marrying off a woman who has lost her virginity or throwing the couple that participated in the sexual act in the forest.
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