Wedding Tradition And Ceremony
The night before the ceremony, no one should sleep in the future residence of the bride and groom. It should be cleaned and purified by their relatives to prepare for the bride's entry and their new life together.
A party should be held for the groom by his male friends, and one for the bride by hers at separate residences. Arrangements should be made if possible, for the man to stay at a male friend's house, and the female at one of her female friend's homes. Wedding clothes and needs should be taken with them to where they spend the night.
In the morning, each should bathe and, it is tradition for the clothes one wore at the party the night before to be burned and wedding garments to be donned after bath.
Two guards dressed in black robes with hoods should meet the male at the house he stayed and warn him he must not speak until the time of the wedding. The same with the female. They are taken to dine at lunch separately to places where their relatives join them in the feasts. After lunch, they are separately taken away by two guards apiece from their places to a place to rest before the ceremony. Then, the male is taken to the temple by guards, and, led by a person carrying his family symbol (which is very important to the ceremony) followed by his relatives. Along the street, people wish him well, which is the custom. There is much laughing and joy as they go to the temple. When the temple is reached, a guard lines up these people single file, outside the temple door, with the symbol bearer after him, then the groom and relatives. Then, the bride appears, and her guard arranges the same with her symbol bearer and kin.