Wedding style in Saudi Arabia

As it is the tradition of Muslims culture, the wedding is planned by elders of the family. First the parents of grooms come to the girls' parents and respectfully asked for their son’s proposal. Informal search for a groom is done by his sisters and his mother. After their coalition, they inform to the guardian of the family as it is known that males are the leader of the family. After these processes as they decided to go girl’s house. The parents of girl’s have right to reject or accept the proposal. Islam has given the right to take decisions about her life. After getting positive response they sit down to take further decisions. Three days before the wedding, the bride is entirely primed oily with all types of oils and perfumes. Her body is cleansed of conditioning oils. The night before the wedding, stunning designs of henna are drawn on the hands of brides. Her sister, friends and cousins make this ceremony lush and enjoyable by singing traditional songs. 

Now the day has come, it’s the wedding day. A small ceremony takes place before the actual celebration. The marriage is officially considered by a religious sheikh, an Islamic magistrate. The groom has asked for more to give the bride. He declared this before three witnesses. They might be all males or two women and a man. The marriage ceremony is organized at a grand hotel and affianced with all relatives and friends of the bride and groom but with the separated sitting arrangement. The groom may spend his time with his friends with all traditional songs. The couple could sit together with relatives and friends on the selected place. 

The bridal dress in Saudi Arabia is known as Zaboun and yashmak. The dress is heavily embellished with silver thread. It is not necessary that dress should be in white, it might be in another variegated color. A bride can also wear a cloak with lower garment. Men attire a traditional dress with head gears., and wear a square scarf over head. But now a days trends are going to change one can wear western suits as well. Gastronomy, the meal of wedding, there is found a variety of meat dishes like Al-Kabsa made of rice and with red, white meat in a container. Chicken and lamb are also cooked with rice and barbecued in a deep hole of ground. A dish named saleeg also cooked with rice and milk is cooked until it becomes thick served with melted butter. The ceremony is concluded by the departure of the bride and groom from the wedding hall. At that time of leaving wedding hall agog with excitement.