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The Mareko tribe has its own traditional wedding customs. Women get married aged 15–17, men, 16–20. This tribe has eight different types of weddings. Tewaja means an arranged wedding, Alulima is an accidental wedding, Shokokanecho is where the man goes to the bride's house with his friends and takes her by force.
Wedding invitations should be sent out 6–8 weeks prior to a wedding, with slightly more time being given for out of town or destination weddings. Guests should be asked to reply at least 2 to 3 weeks before the wedding date; although many couples request RSVPs to be returned up to a month prior to the wedding day.
In recent years, digital RSVPs have become common, particularly for wedding invitations. [5] In this context, the initialism seems to have loosened its tie to its original meaning. Some people use the phrase "Please RSVP", [6] which is a case of RAS syndrome (redundancy) or a pleonasm, as "s'il vous plait" means "please". [7]
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Among the Bombay East Indian Christians, the Umbracho Pani ceremony is held, a day before the wedding, in which water drawn from a well is used to bathe by the bride-to-be and groom-to-be. [12] On the wedding day, the couple meet in the presence of a priest at a church. Passages from the Bible are read out. The bride and groom take their ...
The host sends invitations to the wedding guests, usually one to two months before the wedding. Invitations may most formally be addressed by hand to show the importance and personal meaning of the occasion. Large numbers of invitations may be mechanically reproduced. As engraving was the highest quality printing technology available in the ...
A marriage proposal is a custom or ritual, common in Western cultures, in which one member of a couple asks the other for their hand in marriage. If accepted, it marks the initiation of engagement , a mutual promise of later marriage.