When she returns, dinner is served to all. The couple eat with both parents and close members of the family.
After dinner, the couple go around dancing and greeting their guests, before the bride goes for another change of clothing.
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It’s yet another year when maidens from all across Swaziland, come together for the kingdom of Eswatini’s annual reed dance or Umhlanga festival. The Festival a seven day event that runs from the end of August into September. This year 2018, ran from 28th of August to 3rd of September, which is the 7th day and…
A couple is not considered to be married in South Africa and the Zulu people in particular, until a special ceremony called an Umabo is finished. Due to the expense of the Umabo ceremony, some couples choose to get married in a church or in a civil ceremony first, and then have the Umabo celebration…
During the yearly Swazi Reed dance festival, maidens dress in their traditional attire carrying Reed to present to the King of Swaziland.
The festival is part the of govts efforts aimed at strengthening the local economic development, especially in rural areas. Women, ‘young and young at heart’ showcase beads they produced during the Festival, which is usually attended by thousands of people.
After the purification, the next ceremony the bride participates in is the “Hennaya”. This is when a professional Moroccan Henna Artist, draws symbolic motifs on the hands and feet of the bride, her friends and relatives, with Henna. Henna is a plant which produces natural dyes that are used for body painting. Henna is considered…
Unlike many Western ceremonies that focus almost entirely on the couple, a Yoruba engagement places family, culture, and community at the center. In Yoruba culture, marriage is viewed as the union of lineages, a joining of histories that stretches beyond the bride and groom themselves. This is why the traditional engagement ceremony, known as Igbeyawo,…
