Wedding Ceremony in Sudan

The Wedding in Sudan has its own distinction in terms of customs and practices.

For the person intending to marry the prospective bride, he should be able to pay the bride wealth in terms of cattle in the south and money in the north. The two sides of the families discuss the various clauses of marriage and come to a common agreement.  

The wedding ceremony is held with the sermon and then the mentioning of the marriage conditions in front of the guests and along with minimum two witnesses and the guardian of the bride. The sermon is recited by some elderly person.

 The Sudanese dress up mostly in eastern clothes though they do have their own traditional identification, in the form of Sudanese sarai or toab, women have more bright and fancy colored clothes.  http://www.lady.sd/news/?article=4504 

                    

The wedding preparations are elaborate and the bride adorns henna designs on her hands.

                       

Food savored in these occasions is varied. Some of their specialties are Shorba which is soup of lamb bones, chopped beef with tomato stuffing called maschi, salad with parmesan cheese called Salata Ma Jibna, Flava Beans, Green Hamburgers, ladies fingers-okra, Green leaf vegetable,ground meat balls, lentil soup etc. The celebration is marked with the folk music and traditional songs.

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 The Wedding concludes the bride then goes to her new home in a vehicle usually a car nowadays accompanies by the relatives of her husband. The couples are blessed by the elders of the family where the two take blessings from them with lots of wishes for prayer and well being in the matrimonial life.

After the reception hosted by the bride's side, another reception is hosted by the groom's side. The climatic and landscape diversity in Sudan is contrasting and their cultural values reflect a great deal of importance in their core values.