Algeria wedding traditions

Algeria is the biggest country in Africa continent, there are many beaches and tourism attractions. Algerian family life have survived the century as well as the traditional wedding ceremony. 

Of course, to ensure the wedding ceremony will ended up the best. so, it takes a year to prepare. 

The bride to be might always nervous with the boy's family visiting and ask for her hand in marriage in front of her and his female relatives. Her future mother in law offered bride gifts (Ring, gold, jewellery and traditional costume). Bride's side respond by serving guest dessert, milk and tea are also served and they are symbols of purity and good luck. Food play an important part in wedding process. 

In traditional wedding, Groom has to give a dowry to the bride, provide a house for couple to leave, the more gifts were given, the more happier of both family. Then the bride and her family have to furnish the house, lots of money has spend on this step because they have to select the best colorful fabric and furniture.  

Those steps above might take a week or even a month. After the agreement from both side. The girls will have a henna party, in the party, mother in law put the new mixed henna on bride's palm and wrap around with white clothes. After the traditional costume 
(embroiled with gold and silver thread) in the day, the couple are able to change to the western wedding dress for another celebration at night. Groom will also have henna party , his mother also made a new fresh henna same as she did with her daughter in law. Another party for the groom is riding horse and shoot bully in the sky.

Traditional costume

In another wedding ceremony, guests are invited to join meal which groom hosts. Before the bride leave her parents’ house, she has to walk over an egg for the bright future and throw sugar behind to sweeten the future (It is regional traditions). After then on they way to groom’s house, a couple will take a care parade and stop at locations that they interested in for taking wedding photo.

Bride wears Chedda and Kaftan

Red and white spot

Surrounded by female relatives and dancing

For another wedding ceremony, they do the same car parade from bride’s parents’ house, after that when she reaches groom’s house, the female relative from groom’s side are dancing and all of them wear Chedda and Raftan, she’s welcomes by another dessert and milk before getting into house, then her mother in law gives her a key, means every door is already opened for her. She enters a house, surrounded by female relatives. Her mother in law draws a red and white spot on her cheeks and lip (Red represents shyness, white represents she will blossom like a flower), Then the bride changes into traditional costume (The costume is depend on wealth and religion) After the ceremony, there will be food. The wedding celebrated until night.

The wedding traditions are practiced continuously until nowadays. 

The traditional-culture of each country has their own unique and original storys behind. It is something that has been inherited a long time ago and interesting! people do adapt into a fashionable way. It makes traditional-culture never faded away. 

Chedda and the traditional costume amaze me, i am very interested in these outfits, it's very expensive but worth waering, it is very beautiful and gorgeous.

This makes me realized every traditions as well as wedding ceremony, people do thoroughly select bride's outfits elaborately because bride need to be the most attractive in her special day.     

Source: WWW.ALJAZEERA.COM
Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2014/06/algerian-wedding-201462211523577203.html