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Indian marriages

•         Indian marriages are arranged

•         People still rely on their parents to find the right person

•         Internet also provide opportunity for people to get together

•         Marriage is the most important social occasion.

•         Love marriages generally happen with the approval of the parents.

•         Divorce is not accepted among Indians.

Customs

•         There is a large number of traditions linked with weddings in India.

•         The bride and the grooms are showered with rice grains when they leave for their new home.

•         In the sindhi tradition when the bride enters her new house she has to take some salt in the palm of her hands and exchange it with the groom’s relatives.

Traditions

•         In India there are hundreds of ways of celebrating marriage.

•         Many marriages are arranged within the religion and preferably in the same community.

•         Most of the wedding expenses are borne by the girl’s family.

Types of wedding

•         There are different types of wedding

•         Bengali, Catholic, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Mharashtrian, Malyalee, Marwari, Parsi, Muslim, Punjabi, Sikh, Sindhi, Tamilian and Telugu weddings.  

Tamilian wedding

•         Tamilian weddings are simple

•         The basic set of wedding customs remains the same.

•         Tamil weddings are fixed after consulting the Hindu calendar.

•         The parents of the bride and groom exchange horoscopes and the family priest compare them in various regards.

Rituals on a tamilian wedding

•         When the match is finalized a private function is organized to draw up the marriage agreement.

•         The bride and the groom exchange garlands three times.

•         When the couples finally succeed in garlanding each other they sit together on a swing.

•         kanyadaanam

Muslim wedding

•         It is celebrated on a grand scale for a period of five days.

•         Cash present is sent to the bride’s father by the groom’s father.

•         The bride wears sober clothes on the day.

•         They observe a unique set of rituals on the time of their wedding.

•         It is on day four that the actual ceremony takes place.

•         In orthodox Muslim communities the men and women are seated separately

•         The mutual consent of the bride and groom is of great importance for the marriage to be legal.

•         At the groom’s house, the grooms mother holds the Islamic holy boon quran above the head of her newly wed daughter-in-law as she enters her new home for the first time.