Indian wedding
The Indian wedding is so called pre-agreed wedding. A girls is not allowed to make her choice or to express her unwilling to marry a man. It is common and typical for India that parents decide which one their daughter will marry with. As a rule it is a family of future husband who make their choice. It seldom happens that parents of future bride give their rejection for proposal. As a rule such rejection may be caused with pure well-fare of a fiancé. So, parents meet and make their agreement about marriage. From the very moment the agreement is set a man and a woman are considered the fiancé and bride. It is also common that bride sees her future husband only after she is engaged with him.
After the agreement the ceremony of blessing is held. That is the ceremony that is held at the house of bride first and than at the house of fiancé. Indeed the blessing is exchanging with presents. Parents of the bride give their presents to parents of fiancé as they visit their home. And parents of the fiancé give their presents for parents of bride as they visit their home. It is also common that future husband gives presents for his future wife and the future wife gives presents for her future husband.
The wedding is held in the evening only and at the house of bride only. On the wedding day neither a fiancé nor a bride are allowed to eat something till the wedding begins. There is a ceremony held before wedding that ceremony is a fest in honor of yellow color. This is a color of sun and well-fare for India. At the end of this ceremony a father of fiancé enumerates names of dead ancestors, honors them and informs them about their offspring is getting married. That is also an obligatory ceremony aimed for providing just married with happiness.
So, the wedding is held at the house of bride. The fiancé arrives to his bride's house and waits for her next to the chancel built special for wedding. The bride is carried out with special carriers who have to perform seven rounds about fiancé and only after that the bride and fiancé are allowed to look in each other's eyes. That eye-look is called "the very first eye-look". Than the wedding ceremony starts when they give each other their promises and the fiancé paints the forehead and parting of bride's hair with sindur. Since that moment they are the husband and the wife.
There are some districts of India where it is not allowed for just married to use their right of wedding night. As it is common for India that a bride and a fiancé get acquainted on the day of their wedding it is not allowed for them to make out on their wedding night. The elders tell them to find out more about each other before they implement their wedding night. So, it is common for India that just married consummate their marriage in a several months after their wedding.