We’re back, I’ve been kind of busy these days I forgot all about the blog.
Chapter 6: south marriages.
The south part of Yemen isn’t that different from the north when people want to get married to go ask the father of the girl then the father asks his daughter if she agrees or not.
So let’s assume that she said “what heck, I’ll do it”, sometimes you can do it in the house where you can bring a judge and he can marry you there which most people do these days in the north and south parts of Yemen.
The second way which I only saw people in Hadramoot do is that the men go to the mosque and through the microphones all people can know that “Husband” married “Wife”.
Let me try to explain what they do in some details.
After they have agreed on the money and stuff and who buys what? And who get that? And sign all the papers and stuff in the presence of a judge the two men hold hands (like shaking hands) and they say something like this:
Father: “I 'name-of-the-father' marry you my beloved daughter 'name-of-the-daughter' 'something-something-something'”... (Well I don’t memorize the whole thing).
Soon-to-be-Husband: “I 'name-of-the-man' take your beloved daughter 'name-of-the-soon-to-be-wife' to be my wife 'something-something-something'”.
And then the judge announce them son in law and anyone there congratulates the men and shake hand and so on.
Well after looking at it, it looks the same anywhere in the world, but the difference here is that the girl stays in the house and after the marriage is done, the papers and the witnesses signed then she can go with her husband.
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Of course there are some religion details I didn’t talk about here because I wanted to give you the whole picture.
Maybe I’ll talk about it some other time.
About the conversation:
The only difference is that some do it in the house and some do it in the mosques, but the conversation between the two is the same anywhere in any place in the Arab world with minor differences.
