traditional lebanese wedding: difference between city and village
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Traditional Lebanese Weddings
Loren Al Hamwi
English Communication II
27th October, 2016
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We are talking about
a Traditional Lebanese Wedding!
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Traditional Lebanese Weddings
City
or
Village
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Village
Parents have to accept each other’s child.
An Engagement precede the Marriage.
They transfer the bride stuffs to her husband’s house.
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VillageThe girl as the boy too have a party the night before the marriage!
Also the party will held in the Village Square…
The marriage will be done if and only if the boy picks-up the Kebbah Jarn!
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VillageAfter getting married in the church or the court, everyone in the village will throw rice and flowers on the couples and wish them a happy life.
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Village
In the party, everyone will dance; Drums and Dabkeh are the essential components of the whole marriage.
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VillageAfter everything is over, the bride put a paste on her house’s wall.
The groom will hold the bride and get into their house. Their honey moon is about spending first days with each other.
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CityIt’s a little bit different in here….
The couple will decide their own engagement...
Even sometimes there will be no engagement period, they married directly…
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CityThe girl and the boy will have a party but it’s called bachelor party, and each one will have his own party…
They will dance, sing, eat and even get drunk , which means they are saying BYE BYE to their life as singles….
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CityThey get married in the church or the court or even in a place another than those
The party will be in a restaurant or the couple parent’s house (if they are rich)
Only romantic and quiet songs will be listened with no drums no dabkeh, just “Dance de Salon”
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City
After everything is over, the bride and groom will go to a hotel or will have a flight for their honeymoon
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In the end, if you are
AmericanAsian
IndianFrench
The Real Marriage is not by appearances but by the spiritual meaning of the real marriage!!!
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Everyone will focus on having a happy ending with the one he loves no matter if they had a luxury or modern or a traditional marriage
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Thank
You
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References
1. http://www.beirut.com/l/28276#image-1
2. http://www.schoolnet.edu.lb/Journal/heritage/lebanesetradwed.htm
3. Google Images