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Kurdish Wedding

Kurdish Marriage are consist of some ceremonies, although there are some local varieties for every region, the main traits are :

Xwazbeni : It starts with meeting between bride and groom family, 3 or 4 men and women from the groom family go to the Bride home and ask her parents to agree on this marriage according to some reason. Then bride and groom speak with each other separately in order to know each other. The girl family may agree or refuse. After certain time, the parents of bride give the answer to the groom family. It depends much of the girl decision. If they agree to hand their daughter for relationship, they start preparing for other ceremonies.

Dastnishan : The groom family go to bride home and they give each other their word, usually groom mother gives the bride a gift like a ring or a gold set.

Nishan : The engagement day ,Families gather and they celebrate this marriage, groom and bride put on their rings.

Xanabandan (shawi xana) : Henna Night is one night before the wedding ,this custom is very ancient ,it said that henna brings happiness and personifies the happy marriage of newly-weds. The groom family go the bride home and take henna and some gifts for bride, they color the hands of bride with henna and celebrate the night with special Kurdish songs and dancing.

Wedding Day : A night after henna night both bride and groom family gather in a place and they invite some people for dinner to have a great night full of Kurdish music and dance