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The bridegroom's family was going to bride's house to ask her parents to take her home, a traditional process of Vietnamese people. Wedding of professor Nguyễn Văn Huyên and Ms. Vi Kim Ngọc in 1936. The bride was wearing áo nhật bình, the groom was wearing áo ngũ thân and they used khăn vấn on their head.
A dowry is the transfer of parental property to a daughter at her marriage (i.e. "inter vivos") rather than at the owner's death (mortis causa). [6] (This is a completely different definition of dowry to that given at the top of the article, which demonstrates how the term ‘dowry’ causes confusion.)
Bride dowry is equivalent to dowry paid to the groom in some cultures, or used by the bride to help establish the new household, and dower, which is property settled on the bride herself by the groom at the time of marriage. Some cultures may practice both simultaneously. Many cultures practiced bride dowry prior to existing records.
The elders discuss a dowry (ጧሎሽ) and verify that the intended bride and groom are not relatives by checking their lineage a minimum of seven generations. After a dowry is agreed upon and it has been determined that there is no relationship between the intended bride and groom, the wedding is announced and the families begin preparations ...
In recent decades, Vietnam brides have become more and more popular with China's bachelors both in the Sino-Vietnamese border areas and inlands of China. China's bachelors have been the target cheated either by Vietnamese women themselves or marriage agency. They are asked to pay for a large amount of money to marry a Vietnamese bride.
Bride service has traditionally been portrayed in the anthropological literature as the service rendered by the bridegroom to a bride's family as a bride price or part of one (see dowry). Bride service and bride wealth models frame anthropological discussions of kinship in many regions of the world.
Bride buying or bride purchasing is the cultural practice of providing some form of payment in exchange for a bride. The payment may be made to the bride's father, family, or a separate agent. It is the converse of a dowry. Illegal in some countries, [which?] it has a firm foothold in parts of Asia and Africa.
The bride was wearing áo nhật bình, the groom was wearing áo ngũ thân and they used khăn vấn on their head. In the past, the Vietnamese called this ceremony the "bride-fetching ceremony". [76] [77] Nowadays, it is commonly referred to as the "wedding ceremony" or "nuptial ceremony".