Sunday, February 27, 2011

Mangni or Engagement first ceremony

In a typical arranged wedding the first ceremony is a proposal party at bride’s house, where the groom's parents and family elders formally ask the bride's parents for her hand in marriage. The families offer special prayer for the new couple then tea and refreshments are served. Sometime as a family tradition, the bride  may be gifted with an jewelry or a dress and the  groom were also presented with  same type of gifts.
Then come the formal ceremony to mark the engagement of the couple called as An engagement (Mangni) It is usually a small ceremony that takes place in the presence of a few close members of would-be bride's & groom’s families. Rings and Jora (dress) are exchanged between the two families. Traditionally, the bride and the groom were not seated together and the rings are placed on the bride's finger by the groom's mother or sister and specail garlands are given to the bride with a bites of sweet offer to her by seven married women in the groom family. In recent years however, segregated functions have become a rarity and rings are usually exchanged between the couple.
Special prayer and blessings for the couple are then recited and the wedding date is also decided by the elders.

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