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Faisal Uncle sorry to say youre wrong. In many Arab countries it is part of their culture to wear white wedding dresses and to have weddings that you say are western style. Lebanese Muslims and Jordanian Muslims wear white dresses and I see nothing wrong with it. Its their culture, I dont think theyre trying to be western.
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Faisal Uncle sorry to say youre wrong. In many Arab countries it is part of their culture to wear white wedding dresses and to have weddings that you say are western style. Lebanese Muslims and Jordanian Muslims wear white dresses and I see nothing wrong with it. Its their culture, I dont think theyre trying to be western.
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I agree with you. My wife to be is an Arab and I have been to many Arab weddings in my time b/c of all the Arabs I have worked with, they rang from Lebanese to Saudis and yes the females to wear white. Like Cat said its just part of their culture. We should not judge people on the way they do things if we don't want others to judge us.
Yaar it depends on how u define arabs. In the Middle Eastern countries like Oman(where I grew up), UAE etc, they mostly wear colored dresses, segragated seating areas etc as Faisal mentioned. But in Jordan, Egypt etc like Catty mentioned, they are a bit more liberal.
arab weddings in my experience are one of 2 extremes, extreme;ly boring events, or all out partying and dancing. have nto been to one which is somewhere in between yet.
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arab weddings in my experience are one of 2 extremes, extreme;ly boring events, or all out partying and dancing. have nto been to one which is somewhere in between yet.
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how do you define boring??
I mean you said its either too much partying and dancing or boring? What does this mean?
boring..is boring..you go, u sit u eat there is some ceremony and you leave.
partying is when all the people are just dancing the night away after the vows have been taken.
was that specific enough..majestic..err bluebelle,,
Even Afghani brides mostly wear Red, i.e. the Farsi Community.
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Even Afghani brides mostly wear Red, i.e. the Farsi Community.
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My Afghani friends wore white, I guess it depends.
^^ Yup. My afghani friends also wore white wedding dresses on their weddings.
Oh, I meant White, not red!!! My bad, I dont know why I wrote red!
Most Farsiwaan Afghani brides wear White.
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Faisal Uncle sorry to say youre wrong. In many Arab countries it is part of their culture to wear white wedding dresses and to have weddings that you say are western style. Lebanese Muslims and Jordanian Muslims wear white dresses and I see nothing wrong with it. Its their culture, I dont think theyre trying to be western.
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I didn't say its NOT Arab, nor did I say its WRONG. I just said it looks similar to what you will find in any normal Christian wedding (sans a priest, ofcourse). I also said that there are probably different ways how Arabs marry, and what I have seen those were different, or how Fraudia characterized them as 'boring' kinda occassions.
well I couldnt see the pictures.. I dont know why...
but I read all the replies and i learned a few thigns about the pictures.
any way just to add here,that the way weddings here in K.S.A are organised in such a way that women area is totally secluded from men's area. women have there own space, they enjoy there, dance there and what ever they like to do in weddings. Non Mehrams are not allowed in that area. and yeah my mom and sister told me that there dresses are quite westrenised (almost everyone)....and all the weddings they ahve attended they told me that the brides dress was white like in the westren movies we see :)
From the pics, they look like western weddings, just of ppl with more money.
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Aslam O Alaikum.
Ive a neighbour and she is also a Afhanen.
And i ask her once how they get married in Afghanistan.
She told me at Nikaah day they wear green clothe and
on recepcion white.
Nilu.
I went to a Lebanese wedding last year and the bride wore a white dress. But it was quite different from this wedding. The women were wearing all western dresses but when the men came in they all wore there burqas and scarfs. Same fro the bride...when she was coming she was wearing a white head scarf...which she took off after she entered the wedding hall. So this is quite weird...seeing the bride dance infronta the men in that dress. Oh well, to each their own.
Hmm...the arabs in my experience by law are strict but by culture are exotic. A belly dancer is the norm for arab, its part of their culture, not part of their religion (islam, christianity, judaism).
Comparitively speaking culture wise Arabs have a lot more going on. I might be wrong or just that I find the difference "enlightening" to see that people do have fun at arab weddings and it doesn't have to end with the mother crying and others fainting. They don't seem have a strong grip on the umbilical cord as desi parents do.
I'm not surprised the way they can be either party animals or extremely "dull" as some put it.
As I said before, they're laws are by the sword but the people are different. Its kinda like, they wear the burqas but its a skimpy outfit under the burqa.
Hmm... whats the significance of a bride wearing a white dress as opposed to red? or any other colour?
My theory: White signifies purity (but it not may hold true for the bride), while red signifies the end of the brides virginity.
I personally prefer white as opposed to the ever repetitive red. Then again, the red does give a lil' hue to our brides seeing that we go from yellow (mai'yo) to a bloomin' red.
so maybe a 1 or 2% wear this stuff and have such weddings....
but u dont try to generalize it over the entire arab nation....