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The contrasting themes and traditions in Classical and Baroque Sculpture

Baroque

Engagement/Weeding

Groom's father, comes to the bride's home in a prefixed date with bags of sweets and gifts for the to-be bride, some money and clothes to some family members. After the food is served the father accepts his son "as a servant of him."

The real party is held in the groom's house where a larger number of people are invited for lunch. A small group of tambourine men stand outside and escort the groom's relatives and friends with their gifts to the house, where another person stands to receive the gifts.

Men from both sides sit in a room to listen to khutba nikah (Dari for: marriage speech) at the bride's home. The groom is then taken to inside the house, where the bride is waiting him in a decorated stage among a crowd of women and girls singing and dancing.