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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.
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 ...
The Telugu Hindu wedding ceremony ( Telugu : తెలుగు వివాహ వేడుక, Telugu Vivāha Vēḍuka) [1] is the traditional wedding ceremony of the Telugu people in India. In the 19th century, the ceremony could last up to sixteen days ( Padahaaru Rojula Panduga ). In modern times, it can last two or more days, depending ...
Banns of marriage. The banns of marriage, commonly known simply as the " banns " or " bans " / ˈbænz / (from a Middle English word meaning "proclamation", rooted in Frankish and thence in Old French ), [1] are the public announcement in a Christian parish church, or in the town council, of an impending marriage between two specified persons.
Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of the pieces from his suite of incidental music (Op. 61) to Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is one of the most frequently used wedding marches , generally being played on a church pipe organ .
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. 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.
Chinese pre-wedding customs are traditional Chinese rituals prescribed by the 禮記 (láih gei (Book of Rites), the 儀禮 (yìh láih (Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial) and the 白虎通 (baahk fú tùng) (Bai Hu Tong) condensed into a series of rituals now known as the 三書六禮 (sàam syù luhk láih) (Three Letters and Six Rites).
A wedding photographer taking a picture of the bride and her new husband with his family. A royal wedding with formal portraits. Wedding photography is a specialty in photography that is primarily focused on the photography of events and activities relating to weddings. It may include other types of portrait photography of the couple before the ...