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2. Hindu wedding - Wikipedia

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   Nevertheless, the Hindu wedding ceremony at its core is essentially a Vedic yajna ritual and three key rituals are almost universal: Kanyadana— giving away of his daughter by the father, Panigrahana— voluntarily holding hands near the fire to signify union, and Saptapadi— taking seven 'steps before fire'. (Each 'step' is a complete ...

3. Bedding ceremony - Wikipedia

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   Bedding ceremony. The bedding ceremony refers to the wedding custom of putting the newlywed couple together in the marital bed in front of numerous witnesses, usually family, friends, and neighbors, thereby completing the marriage. The purpose of the ritual was to establish the consummation of the marriage, either by actually witnessing the ...

4. Bride and Groom (radio program) - Wikipedia

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   Bride and Groom is an old-time radio human-interest program in the United States. It was broadcast on ABC from November 26, 1945 to September 15, 1950. [1] Each episode featured an engaged couple who would be married during the broadcast, then showered with gifts. In 1951, it was adapted as a television show of the same name .

5. Poruwa ceremony - Wikipedia

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   The Poruwa ceremony appears to have existed in Sri Lanka before the introduction of Buddhism in the 3rd century BC. The Poruwa ceremony was a valid custom as a registered marriage until the British introduced the registration of marriages by Law in 1870. Today's Poruwa ceremony has been influenced by both upcountry and low country customs of ...

6. Marriage and wedding customs in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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   The last part of the wedding is also the walimah, reception. As in Mindanaon and other Southeast Asian Muslim wedding receptions, the bride and groom sit on a stage in view of the performers and attendees, who sit on tables below the stage. This is to emulate being a royal couple or sultan and dayang dayang for a day.

7. Umtsimba - Wikipedia

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   Umtsimba. A traditional Swazi wedding ceremony is called umtsimba ( Swazi: [umtsʼimɓa] ), where the bride commits herself to her new family for the rest of her life. [1] [2] The ceremony is a celebration that includes members of both the bride's - and the groom's - natal village. There are stages to the wedding that stretch over a few days.