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 My story is about Somalian wedding customs.
When the family wants their son to get married, they choose for him a
wife by a family name that they know. It doesn’t matter how far away
they live. Then the family talks to their son and tells him he has to
prepare himself because they are going to the family to choose their
daughter for him to marry. “I’m your father and that family is well
known.” The son has to respect his father and grandfather very much.
After that the family has to inform the girl’s family. The family of the
son has to prepare the gift. They give one hundred camels, a rifle gun,
and fifty horses to the girl’s family.
When the girl’s family accepts, they ask for
more time to prepare for the wedding. The girl’s family has to make 95%
of the things in her house by hand. The mother of the girl has to make
special food for the wedding day. When they are ready for the wedding,
the mother has to invite many women to help her prepare the food. Some
of them have to build a house. It has to be about four or five blocks
from the neighbors’ house. It has to look different then the other
houses. It is beautiful and new.
After that they have a
seven-day festival. The girl has to stay home for seven days. After
seven days she can go out, and she can visit her family or his family.
They have to give her a gift. Everyone says hi to her.
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