ProWritersHub (W4) || Topic 1: How Traditional Marriage is performed in my Hometown, City or Community|| by @edidiongeffiong

INTRODUCTION

Hello everyone, my topic for today in ProWritingHub contest is about Traditional marriage.

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STEPS ON HOW TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IS PERFORM IN MY HOMETOWN

Below are the steps on how traditional marriage is perform in my hometown;

• KNOWING THE HOUSE: The husband to be will visit the wife's family with a kola nut and some drinks, then he will state his intentions to marry the girl.
  If the family of the girl accept the proposal, then another meeting will be arranged.

• KNOCKING OF DOOR: In these second meeting with the bride's family, the man will show the family that he is fully ready to marry the bride

• SENDING GIFT TO THE BRIDE'S FAMILY: These is a way of compensating the bride's family by the family of the groom for accepting to give their child out for marriage.

• TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE: It is the most important part, these is when the groom and the bride will be join together in the traditional way as husband and wife.

THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED FROM THE HUSBAND TO BE

When the husband to be visit the bride's family the second time like i said above, the brides parents will give him a list of what is needed from him, which include items for the father, mother, the first son, the youth and the village head etc.

FATHER'S ITEM

• English suit
• Black cover shoe
• A staff
• Goat
• Tubers of yam etc

MOTHER'S ITEMS

• Wrapper
• Cover shoe
• Kitchen items etc

HOW TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE IS PERFORM

After the husband to be has provided all the items on the list, a date for the marriage will be fix.
On that day the will cooked different type of meals, and everywhere will be decorated with traditional things, traditional songs will be played and tradiidance will be perform.

HOW IT'S PERFORM

• Arrival of the guest

• Welcoming words by MC

• Arrival of the groom - The groom will be the first to be brought to public, he will dance to his seat waiting for his bride

• Arrival of the bride - The mother of the bride will be sent to bring the bride to her husband, she will call out all the maidens together with the bride in the middle dancing with them to the groom

• The introduction - These is where the bride publicly introduce the groom to her parents with a glass of palm wine of which their union will be sealed with blessings from the parents

• Handing over - After the bride finish introducing the groom to her parents, the father will now handover the bride to the groom's family

TYPES OF FOOD THAT IS SERVED

A lot of traditional food will be cooked even before the guest arrives, and they will be displayed on a big table and the groom's family will taste them one after the other.

They Traditional foods are;

• Afang soup
• Ekpang nkukwo
• Afia efere
• Palm wine
• Ekoki etc

TYPES OF MUSIC PLAYED IN THE CEREMONY

The type of song that is played that day will be Traditional songs, especially the once that suit the occasion

COUPLE CLOTHES

On that day the couple will be wearing a Traditional dress that matches the culture of their village

In my own side the husband wear a white long sleeve native and tie a wrapper in his waist, and he put on a native cap with a staff

The bride will wear the same matching outfits with her husband, she will wear lot of beads and bracelets.
Her shoe, purse and umbrella will match with her dress.

CONCLUSION

Thanks for reading my post on how traditional marriage is perform, God bless you all.