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.