In my random reading today, I came across an interesting Bengali wedding custom.
On the beginning day of the wedding festivities, it is traditional for the groom’s side to send a pair of the best fish from that day’s catch dressed as a bride and groom:
The fish are meant to be cooked and eaten later. I thought this was interesting. Does anyone know more about this or if it is still followed today?
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yup. had this for mine. :D a bigass rohu.
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means in urban areas of bengal as well?
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means in urban areas of bengal as well?
Good question. I'm not entirely sure how common it is in general. The article I read it from was about interesting wedding traditions from around the world, so it briefly described each tradition and didn't go into too much detail.
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pretty much, muqqawee. every wedding - rural or urban - has the fish ritual.
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Do they prefer any specific specie of fish or any fish will do?
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I read ‘they’ as ‘you’ and came to tell you that queer isn’t Bengali 
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lols. Last week he told TS that he is a Bengali
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I thought he was an Indian 
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im not bengali, but my wife is and we had a bengali wedding. and now i’m a honorary bengali, i can do the language. 
muqawwee, its usually a rohu (ruii maach! ). very tasty fish.
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ahan.
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Don't believe him. He is Bengali.
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Don't believe him. He is Bengali.
Honorary Bengali :p
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Acha
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wow...very interesting and something new that i learned today...thanx
what a 'fishy' and 'smelly' tradition!...btw, what do they do with those fish-doll brides and grooms? i hope they do not cook N eat them.
what's the significance of it or what does this represent?
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wow...very interesting and something new that i learned today...thanx
what a 'fishy' and 'smelly' tradition!...btw, what do they do with those fish-doll brides and grooms? i hope they do not cook N eat them.
what's the significance of it or what does this represent?
Yep, they cook it later.
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Acha
Hanji :D
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Does anyone know the significance of this fish ritual or what it represents?
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TS told me that he (TS) was Karachi boi.. and today I read in other thread that he is Pindi boi… 
uss ki baat ka bharosa nahi karain… 
Good question… Lets ask Deeba… She will give insight information of fish ritual…
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Maybe one parent is from Karachi and the other from Rawalpindi.