About That Arab Life

How to be an Arab: Arab weddings

Watch the video above. :) Its absolutely relatable.

In arab weddings, theres always a dance floor!

Always.

If theres no dance floor, its can't be classified as an arab wedding.

The procedure of Arab weddings are as follows:

1. The guests enter the hall- which is usually simply decorated- and munch on the mezza while greeting the other guests.

P.S. There is usually a partition separating the men and women yet both genders can see the stage which the bride and groom are seated on.

2. The bride and groom finally grace the guests with their presence and take their seat on stage. Lets not forget the zaghroutas that follow them by the arab women as they walk towards their stage.

3) Dinner is served -mahshy or grape leaves is always served, mm.

4) Slow dancing takes place. I kid I kid. There's no such thing as slow dancing in an arabs vocabulary. It's either dabkeh, dancing according to the beat or nothing. :p (AN: I can never lead the dabkeh. Never)

5) Pictures with the bride and groom because c'mon, you don't attend a wedding and NOT take a selfie with the bride and groom.

6) The zaffa follows. There's two types of zaffa's. The first zaffa actually follows when the bride and groom are entering. This is a series of music played by the drums while they're entering. The second zaffa follows when the bride and groom are leaving. A series of cars follow the newly wedded couples car while all the cars are honking simultaneously with a similar beat. (AN: This is my favourite part) The zaffa continues until the couple reach their home. And then another round of pictures :p

That's basically the procedure.

P.P.S. Usually, if the couple is muslim, the words "Barakallahu Lakuma wa Baraka 3alaykuma wa jama3bynakuma fe khayr" are recited once the couple are seated.

Mahn, but arabs know how to dance!
And should I even start how while you're greeting everyone, they're all like
"3o'balik"
And you're just their like
"Shukran Khalto/Amtu. 3o'bal *insert their children's names*"
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Assalamualaykum my lovely cupcakes. How are you all doing? :D I certainly do hope you're doing well

This chapter was written from experience. I've attended 3 arab weddings this year and they all followed the same procedure except for the last one which was Indian slash arab. My dad actually met this guy in that wedding who could do the zaghrouta. It was absolutely weird yet astonishing.

And in the previous wedding, the woman were dancing so much -that includes me. I'm surprised we didn't sleep after that for 2 days.

And in the first wedding -which was my sisters by the way (and she's expecting but shhh, it's our secret) we took so many pictures that I think the cameraman was going to fall asleep watching us.

Ahhh! Weddings are my favourite.

So tell me, what were your past experiences with weddings?

And what's your favourite part about a wedding?

This chapter is dedicated to my dear dear best friend @ShamooIsmail who just started her new book called "The Merge of Infatuation"

Please please do read it. It's absolutely beautiful and you'll love it immediately you read it. Jazakallahu Khairan ya habybi

That's all for today from me. B7abkom.

Fe AmanAllah.

Assalamualaykum

-SIS