About Turkish Wedding Customs

Turkey is a Muslim country and Islam promises polygamy. After the Kemal Revolution, polygamy was prohibited by law. Now polygamy and monogamy coexist. Little importance is attached to formal, secular marriage ceremonies, while weddings in Muslim rites performed by imams are quite solemn.

Bought and sold marriages still exist in rural Turkey and in small towns. Robbed marriages are common, often involving young men snatching their intended and hiding them. The snatched girl would be seen as an unclean woman. By the time the girl's father became a grandfather, the two families were reconciled.

In Turkey, there is also a kind of "labor marriage", that is, poor young men can not afford to pay the bride price, often go to be a "son-in-law", in the future father-in-law's family to serve two or three years of hard labor, and then married.

Turkey also has a two families to exchange brides for each other's wedding customs. Young man's family has already reached the age of marriage sister, he is interested in the girl and brother, in this case can be practiced in exchange for marriage, in rural Turkey is also popular in the younger brother to marry his elder brother's legacy as a wife of the wedding custom. Because the widow remarried is not get the bride price, but also to avoid the widow married away from the family's land, livestock and property. In Turkey, there are places where weddings last for several days, while in other places, marriage ceremonies are very simple and elegant. The former is mainly in some parts of the countryside.

Turkish wedding customs: the bride's pre-wedding bath ceremony!

Turkish brides perform a kind of bathing ceremony the day before the wedding. On this day, the bride will invite the usual best sister in the laughter **** to the distinctive Turkish bath. There are two main features of the bridal shower ceremony:

One is the length of time it takes. People enter the bath from lunch, first in the lounge chatting and drinking tea, until the sun is in the west before entering the bath;

Second, the bride must be invited to the bath of the future mother-in-law to attend, and everyone meet, get to know each other. The future mother-in-law to participate in the bride bathing ceremony should bring a bag containing the bride's new clothes.

After the bath, the bride takes off her old clothes and puts on new ones to symbolize the renewal of the old. It is not until dusk that the women come out of the bath in a state of euphoria.