Hai guys, after sharing about the culture shock, today i would like to share about wedding culture that have in malay. Do you know that nowadays, not all people follow the rules and ritual that always been practices by our ancestor. This is shows about the differences of acceptable regarding the wedding cultures in Malaysia for then and now.
This is some example of several wedding culture that have in Malaysia for Malay
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- Merisik ( Visit and observe)
- Meminang ( Propose)
- Bertunang ( Engagement)
- Adat Berinai (Wearing Henna )
- Khatam al AL-QURAN
- Wedding ceremony
For the first wedding culture is Merisik ( visit and observe ). This custom begin with adat merisik as the mening to ensure that the girl is still single without any relationship with others. This steps is really important whereas as a muslim, it will become forbidden to propose other's fiancee. After that, during this session the family can learn more about the future wife through informal inquiries. It is usually is done by relatives such as mother, father and uncle.
Then, it is continued in another day which is meminang that in intention to set the day and date for men's family to send the propose delegation officially. By doing this step it is means the girl is available and agree with the propose.
After that, the custom continue with engagement ceremony. During that day, the men's family will give the "barang hantaran" or it is like present such as 'tepak sirih', sirih junjung' a ring and some additional stuff to the future wife and the girls also reply with 'barang hantaran' without ring.
| sireh junjung |
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| sireh junjung |
| engagement |
Afterward, malay wedding culture involve with adat berinai (wearing henna). The ritual is to celebrate and shows the bride with a beautiful and uniqueness from others
| adat berinai |
After adat berinai have been done a day before the wedding day, khatam al-Quran will be done at night after nikah or early in the morning before bersanding.
| khatam al-quran |
khatam al Quran will be done to show the grateful when become someone's wife.
Then, at last the wedding ceremony or bersanding
| bersanding (now) |
| before |
As for all the custom that have in Malaysia such as Malays wedding culture it is shows the uniqueness and beautiful of Malaysia that have lots of culture. It is shows the differences with people nowadays that only do a nikah and bersanding ceremony without do the others. For example, wedding nowadays are more popular than before in terms of foods, baverages, decoration and many more including the bridal dress that differ from before that only wearing a songket. All of this really demand for high cost and it can make the differences between poor people and rich people. It is means, poor people can not afford to have a special and grand wedding ceremony. So as a Malaysian, we need to preserve and sustain our culture from fade and dull to make our country is more special without any differences of standard of living.
The next post will discuss more about the effects of cultural diversification in malaysia.
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