The course of Igbo wedding
The Igbo ceremony is based on the marriage deal which starts with the groom asking for the bride’s hand in marroage. There are three phases of the traditional Igbo wedding, which also includes proposing to her whole family and making them accept you into their circle.
At the beginning of the wedding, the bride and groom should stand in front of relatives, wearing only their underwear. The leader of a family or tribe ties them together with a veil, which means the bride and groom are united until death does them part. After that, the young married couple should dress up and go to the family of the husband. They are tied with the veil there, too. This ritual means that the bride breaks the ties with her family, and now her husband’s relatives are her new family.
In case the relatives of the groom refuse to tie the veil of a bride, this means they are refusing to take her into the family, and their decision cannot be influenced afterwards. In order to get married, the bride and groom should have good relations with each other’s families.
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