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The bride's parents may include the 嫁妝 gaa jòng (bride's dowry) (jiàzhuāng) along with the reciprocal gifts on the day of betrothal, or may present the bride's dowry separately a few days before the wedding ceremony. Chinese dowries typically include: bedding (e.g. pillows, bolsters, comforter set, blankets, bed sheets)
Traditional Vietnamese wedding. A wedding in Annam (Middle of Vietnam) in the 1900s. 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 ...
Brides in Ireland traditionally wore a blue wedding dress as a symbol of purity. [10] The bride also traditionally kept an embroidered handkerchief on her person all day, which would later be used to make a christening gown for the couple's first child. [11] [12] [13] The wearing of wildflowers in the bride's hair was a common tradition. [14]
A dowry is a payment, such as property or money, paid by the bride’s family to the groom or his family at the time of marriage. Dowry contrasts with the related concepts of bride price and dower. While bride price or bride service is a payment by the groom, or his family, to the bride, or her family, dowry is the wealth transferred from the ...
Traditional Chinese marriage. A Qing dynasty wedding. The groom's parents are seated. The bride is the one in the centre wearing a red dress and blue headpiece, presenting tea to her mother-in-law. The groom usually wears a sash forming an "X" in front of him. Sometimes the "X" includes a giant bow or flower, though not in this picture.
The practice of performing paninilbihan, paying dowry, visiting a shrine to pray for fertility, etc. are among strong traces of continuity of Hindu influence in Philippines. [ 3 ] Pamamanhikan enforces the importance of the familial nature of the wedding, as traditionally a marriage is the formation of an alliance between two clans as well as ...
In addition, bride family would give vegetables that have homonym with positive words such as celery, garlic, and chives, that are then tied with red rope given as gifts to the husband's family. Oil-paper umbrella as a dowry is still a custom in the Hakka family in Taiwan and some other countries in South East Asia.
Traditional Ukrainian wedding – is a wedding in Ukrainian folk everyday life – a complex mixture of rites of different days, in which elements of the ancestral exogamic era, Greek-Byzantine religious-mystical influences and newer Ukrainian ones are distinguished. [1] V. Tropinin "Wedding in Kukavka in Podillia". Josyp Brandt "Wedding of ...