Amazigh traditional wedding
Amazigh traditional wedding
One of the versions Moroccan wedding is the traditional Berber wedding, which was always linked to the land. In fact as soon as the summer season is favorable, it is expected several weddings and all the corn is adorned with traditional colorful, providing a background to the rituals of the Berber wedding, which have their origins in Amazigh true values of hospitality , good neighborliness and solidarity.
Tazoudha, rite du mariage berbère
Preparations for the wedding party begin by purchasing everything needed for such an event whether the ingredients of the wedding feast, musical instruments, toiletries, robes, costumes and traditional adornments. On the wedding day, a procession said Tazoudha is chaired by an elderly woman who will guide parents and relatives of the bridegroom to his bride's house. She wears a bronze tray in his hand that contains henna and boiled eggs and is followed by a procession of horses carrying loaded baskets of offerings with the addition of goats and kids while women with so-called bendirs arkkouth singing festive songs in honor of the bride.
The Alaakissa ritual of the first evening.
The procession arrived at the young bride is received with milk, dates, honey and butter in welcome, before starting the song and dance that will last all evening. At this time the lady who presided over the procession this gift and henna to the bride, to prepare for leaving home on horseback or mule. The procession from the opposite direction to be greeted at the bridegroom will start when the first evening and the ritual of Alaakissa. Once the festivities begin with dancing and singing but mostly games during which the groom tries to persuade the Alaakissa to allow him to go to his promise, but these tests are obviously doomed to failure because according to the ritual of evening the bride must pass its first single night.
During the afternoon, guests arrive from everywhere to attend the ceremony, bringing TiWSi, gifts, as is the local tradition and usually consist of sheep, flour, tea, sugar etc. Throughout the event singing and dancing accompany every moment.
Ceremonies to the rhythms of Ahouach or Ahaydouss
The first part of the ceremony is reserved entirely to animated performances by folk groups of professionals and amateurs. A meal is served to the audience before the arrive of the escort of the Sultan, with the husband who wears traditional clothes created especially for the occasion and which consist of djellaba, Seroual, Bathrobe, slippers and Selham. A Vizier accompanying spouses and guide through the house before joining the wife of one room. At this time the young singing nursery rhymes recalling the end of celibacy newlyweds before leaving the scene to prepare some traps and tricks to the young couple. Such games are very common in Moroccan traditional weddings, they bring a little entertainment to the festivities. The main game in the Berber wedding is to leave no respite to the groom as an emissary knock on the window or on the door to say he took a lot of time, which can question his manhood and teasing stop only when the groom gives them proof of his virility and also chastity of his wife.
And married life begins
From the day after the wedding, the young couple left the family home and is received by four different families for four days. Their hosts offer them food and shelter but also gifts and entertainment provided by folk groups. On their return home, the newlyweds organized a small reception for the benefit of relatives and close friends announcing the beginning of their married life.
One of the versions Moroccan wedding is the traditional Berber wedding, which was always linked to the land. In fact as soon as the summer season is favorable, it is expected several weddings and all the corn is adorned with traditional colorful, providing a background to the rituals of the Berber wedding, which have their origins in Amazigh true values of hospitality , good neighborliness and solidarity.
Tazoudha, rite du mariage berbère
Preparations for the wedding party begin by purchasing everything needed for such an event whether the ingredients of the wedding feast, musical instruments, toiletries, robes, costumes and traditional adornments. On the wedding day, a procession said Tazoudha is chaired by an elderly woman who will guide parents and relatives of the bridegroom to his bride's house. She wears a bronze tray in his hand that contains henna and boiled eggs and is followed by a procession of horses carrying loaded baskets of offerings with the addition of goats and kids while women with so-called bendirs arkkouth singing festive songs in honor of the bride.
The Alaakissa ritual of the first evening.
The procession arrived at the young bride is received with milk, dates, honey and butter in welcome, before starting the song and dance that will last all evening. At this time the lady who presided over the procession this gift and henna to the bride, to prepare for leaving home on horseback or mule. The procession from the opposite direction to be greeted at the bridegroom will start when the first evening and the ritual of Alaakissa. Once the festivities begin with dancing and singing but mostly games during which the groom tries to persuade the Alaakissa to allow him to go to his promise, but these tests are obviously doomed to failure because according to the ritual of evening the bride must pass its first single night.
During the afternoon, guests arrive from everywhere to attend the ceremony, bringing TiWSi, gifts, as is the local tradition and usually consist of sheep, flour, tea, sugar etc. Throughout the event singing and dancing accompany every moment.
Ceremonies to the rhythms of Ahouach or Ahaydouss
The first part of the ceremony is reserved entirely to animated performances by folk groups of professionals and amateurs. A meal is served to the audience before the arrive of the escort of the Sultan, with the husband who wears traditional clothes created especially for the occasion and which consist of djellaba, Seroual, Bathrobe, slippers and Selham. A Vizier accompanying spouses and guide through the house before joining the wife of one room. At this time the young singing nursery rhymes recalling the end of celibacy newlyweds before leaving the scene to prepare some traps and tricks to the young couple. Such games are very common in Moroccan traditional weddings, they bring a little entertainment to the festivities. The main game in the Berber wedding is to leave no respite to the groom as an emissary knock on the window or on the door to say he took a lot of time, which can question his manhood and teasing stop only when the groom gives them proof of his virility and also chastity of his wife.
And married life begins
From the day after the wedding, the young couple left the family home and is received by four different families for four days. Their hosts offer them food and shelter but also gifts and entertainment provided by folk groups. On their return home, the newlyweds organized a small reception for the benefit of relatives and close friends announcing the beginning of their married life.
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