Sep 28, 2010

The Interesting Customs about Wedding in the Country of India


Different countries have different customs about wedding ceremonies, which reflects local cultures, proprieties, or religion. Here we introduce the customs about wedding of India.

In India, apart from wearing beautiful wedding dresses, what the couple should do is to finish some religious obligations. Among them, offering sacrifices to ancestors is most important. In order to offer sacrifices to ancestors, a man must marry. Otherwise he has no right to sacrifice.
The couple pray, conjure, and vow in the ceremony. The husband will clearly say to his wife that the reason why he marries her is that he wants to get a son. The people who attend the ceremony will wish luck to them for this.

About wedding dresses, although in various places of India, brides will wear different styled and colored wedding dresses, but in most cases, they will wear red or white wedding dresses with golden trimmings. It is because that white symbolizes purity and red represents affluence and having a growing family. The brides need to wear many gold accessories and jewels. Bridegrooms should wear white shirts with golden trimmings and loose trousers or skirts. In the north, the bridegrooms also need to wear delicate headbands and flowers. Brides will also wear floral hoops with the knee length around there necks and on their wedding dresses.

Whatever customs it has, all wedding ceremonies are a new beginning for every person.
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