Yemen
While veiling and an expensive brideprice are still common in Yemen today, modern wedding traditions may also include inviting the entire community to the celebration, and exotic wedding costumes of gold fabric, embellished with gold jewelry. Professional musicians consider it their sacred duty to please the bride and groom, and guests may even take turns playing instruments. Sweet fritters are eaten by all of the wedding guests, symbolic of the wish that the newlyweds will have a sweet life together.
Yoruba
Before a Yoruban wedding, there is usually a spiritual reading by a babalawo, a high priest, and an offering, or ebo, is made to the orisha, the spirit of love, money and conception. Traditionally, the bride and groom take part in a tasting ceremony, including peppercorns for bitterness, honey for happiness and dried fish for nourishment. Baskets of gifts such as honey and pumpkin welcome the ancestors at the altar, and libations are poured. Millet, rather than rice, is thrown at Yoruban newlyweds, symbolic of fertility and wealth.
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