SS Notes

Wedding

• A rite of passage that joins 2 families together through the couple

How are Marriages made?

• Arranged

  • The family helps pick the spouse for their child

  • Strict Arranged

    • The family picks the spouse and the child has no say

  • Loose Arranged

    • The family helps but the child can say no

• Love Match

  • The couple chooses each other and it is based on love

Indian American Wedding

• Sangeet

  • Means “Sung Together”

  • A large party the night before the wedding with a large “talent show” where family members perform dances

• Choora

  • 21 red/maroon bangles gifted to bride

  • maternal uncles help the bride put them on

• Kalire

  • Gold jewelry hung from the bangles

  • Unmarried sisters put them on the bride

• Haldi Ceremony

  • Haldi mean tumeric

  • Wedding morning

  • Family puts tumeric paste on bride and groom

    • symbolizes purifying, blessings, and warding off the evil eye

• Sherwani

  • The traditional outfit the groom wears

• Lehenga

  • The outfit the bride wears

• Couple wears red and gold

• Baraat

  • bridal procession

  • husband rides an animal up to the wedding

    • elephant, white horse, etc

  • Bride’s family members block his way and must be paid

• Chaadar

  • Bride walks down the aisle escorted by her brothers under a chaadar which is made out of her mother’s wedding Sari

  • mothers blessings and history

• Terasalla

  • curtain that separates the bride and groom during the ceremony

• Bride and groom put flower garlands on each other

  • whoever does it first is supposed to have the power in the marriage

• Jeelakarra Bellam

  • couple places hands filled with a paste of bitter/sweet herbs on each others heads

    • represents joys and struggles in life

  • couple is married

Brazilian Wedding

• Fun, joyful, noisy

• fusion of traditional brazilian culture and catholic

1. Pampering the bride

   • day before

   • massages, facials, etc

   • bride feels good and free from stress

2. Brighter dresses for bridesmaids

   • bridesmaids wearing the same color is bad luck

   • wear bright colors

3. Writing names in the hem

   • bride writes single friends’ names in dress’s hem

     • good luck in love life

4. Wearing gold shoes

5. Gold heel dancing

   • Put gold shoes in the middle of the dance floor

   • money gets put in shoe

6. How to tame a donkey

7. Church Wedding Ceremony

8. Tie auction

   • Best man auctions off pieces of grooms tie

9. Sweets Table

   • Brigadeiro

     • Sprinkle covered chocolate balls

     • given to guests on way out

     • Translates to well married

   • Bem Casada

     • Cake filled with dulce de leche

10. Lifting of the bride and her dress