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  2. Wedding customs by country - Wikipedia

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    It is the custom that the groom and his family pay for all the wedding expenses. The bride's family gather together before the wedding in the bride's parents house. The groom's family come and take the bride from the house in a decorated car along with the one bride's mate which usually is the bride's sister, cousin, or best friend.

  3. Bowing - Wikipedia

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    Bowing. Different degrees of bowing and prostration, here drawn from Eastern Orthodox religious liturgical use. Bowing (also called stooping) is the act of lowering the torso and head as a social gesture in direction to another person or symbol. It is most prominent in Asian cultures but it is also typical of nobility and aristocracy in many ...

  4. Marriage vows - Wikipedia

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    Marriage vows. Wedding ceremony at Kiuruvesi Church in Kiuruvesi, Finland, July 2007. Marriage vows are promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony based upon Western Christian norms. They are not universal to marriage and not necessary in most legal jurisdictions. They are not even universal within Christian ...

  5. Bowing in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Bowing in Japan (お辞儀, Ojigi) is the act of lowering one's head or the upper part of the torso, commonly used as a sign of salutation, reverence, apology or gratitude in social or religious situations. [1] Historically, ojigi was closely affiliated with the samurai. The rise of the warrior class in the Kamakura period (1185–1333) led to ...

  6. Marriage proposal - Wikipedia

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    A woodcut depicting a proposal, Germany, 1815. A marriage proposal is a custom or ritual, common in Western cultures, in which one member of a couple asks the other for their hand in marriage. If accepted, it marks the initiation of engagement, a mutual promise of later marriage. Not all engagements begin with a proposal of marriage.

  7. Musical bow - Wikipedia

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    The musical bow ( bowstring or string bow, a subset of bar zithers) is a simple string instrument used by a number of African peoples, which is also found in the Americas via the slave trade. [1] It consists of a flexible, usually wooden, stick 1.5 to 10 feet (0.5 to 3 m) long, and strung end to end with a taut cord, usually metal.