What Does the Girl and Boy Side Get?
You found the love you were looking for, you decided to get married to continue your relationship forever, and you started preparations. When you say promise, engagement, henna, wedding, the preparations started to stress you. We have gathered together for you what your duties are during this preparation process.
In the process of marriage preparations, there are different duties that fall on the side of the girl and the boy. The costs incurred and the items received are different from each other. This to-do list may vary from region to region, from family to family, but let's list your duties in a traditional preparation process.
Things to be Taken at Speech
If you are one of the couples who want to separate the promise and the engagement, most of the expenses for the promise belong to the men. The boy's side goes to the girl's house to ask for it, with a beautiful bouquet of flowers and a nice chocolate package. The girl's side decorates the house and prepares the treats. After the requesting ceremony is over, the rings are put on, and the men buy the rings. If the groom wants, he can buy a jewelry set or bracelet for the bride, and the girl can give a wrist watch or bracelet to the man if she wants.
What to Take at the Engagement Ceremony
After leaving the word cut behind, it was time for the engagement ceremony. In the engagement ceremony, the expenses usually belong to the girl's side. The fee, decorations and treats of the venue to be held for the engagement ceremony belong to the girl's side. On the engagement day, the girl buys the boy's ring, and the boy buys the girl's ring. For the clothes worn at the engagement ceremony, the male party buys the girl's clothes and the girl buys the man's clothes. According to the tradition, if there are jewelry set bracelets worn on the girl's side in the speech section; In the engagement ceremony, a man can wear gold at the same rate.
Groom and Bride Pack
It's only a short time before the wedding. The house where the couples will live after their marriage has started to be prepared and the wedding shopping has accelerated. In this process, the bride's family prepares a bundle for the groom, and the groom's family prepares a bundle for the girl. Bundles that are presented to each other as gifts by the girl's and the boy's side are one of our old traditions.
Usually in the groom's bundle; Men's pajama sets, shirts, trousers, ties, slippers, towels, bathrobes, shaving kits, underwear, perfume and personal care sets are available.
In the bride's bundle; women's pajamas, nightgowns, slippers, bathrobes, towels, personal care kits, make-up materials, perfume, mirrors, combs, clothes, bags, shoes.
Things to Take When Building a House
As in every stage, we can say that families distribute tasks in this process as well. While the girl side buys the kitchen, living room, children's room sets; The men's side gets the living room and bedroom sets.
Although the distribution of the purchases in white goods varies in each region, mostly; television, refrigerator and some household appliances are welcomed by men; washing machine, dishwasher, oven, bedspreads, cookware, carpets and curtains are taken by the bride's family.
What to Get at the Henna Night
Henna is an entertainment that usually takes place with the participation of female relatives and close girlfriends of the bride, and the expenses of this entertainment belong to the girl's side. The rent of the place to be held, decorations, treats and henna souvenir gifts to be given to the guests at the henna night are paid by the bride's family. But at the henna night, the bride's clothes and shoes are met by the groom's family.
Things to Get for the Wedding Day
All the preparation process is over, the wedding day, one of the most special days of your life, when all the hustle and bustle will come to an end. What does not differ from our traditions is that the wedding expenses are borne by the man. male side; It covers all expenses of the wedding venue, dinner, invitations, wedding car, photographer, wedding dress, accessories and hairdresser. At the wedding, the male side can wear a gold jewelry set to the bride. On the other hand, the bride can wear a watch, chain or full gold for the groom.
Beyond all these processes, we recommend you to be happy on your wedding day, to be tolerant and cool-headed against the setbacks you encounter during these processes, and to act by considering the possibilities of the two families.