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The Wedding…

Typically, in a traditional Eritrean wedding, the wedding is separated into two ceremonial days – the first day filled with church and a reception and the second day a celebration of the traditional customs – melse.

On the morning of the wedding day, the groom spends the morning getting ready with his groomsmen. He later goes with his groomsmen and his family to the brides family house to get his bride. The bride will have spent all day getting ready with her bridesmaids while her family prepares the house for all the coming guest. When the groom arrives, the brides family will be waiting at the door singing and dancing and the groom and his groomsmen will dance and sing their way back at the family and enter the house

ceremony. The bride and grooms family will follow in their separate cars with the family dressed in traditional Habesha clothes. After the priest officiates the ceremony and the bride and groom are declared husband and wife, they leave the church and head to a nearby park or other location with immediate family and bridal party to be photographed.

should have gathered at this time and are waiting for the bride and groom. Before the bride and groom enter the reception, there is a group of men who will walk in singing and jumping with swords – this is called the Medebale. After the men have finished their song and dance, the bride, groom and bridal party walk into the reception with a specific song playing called the Mesihaley Doe. After the bridal party walks into the song, they do not sit but they are moved to the dance floor with everyone else.

After dinner is served, there are two traditional songs that must be sung before everyone can dance. The first traditional song is called the Awelo. The song is sang in respect to both the bride and grooms family and the singer is to call out each family members name. The following song is a traditional song about the food, mese and sawa. This is done in order to thank and show appreciation for all those who cooked and made the sewa for the reception. Then comes a night filled with dancing.

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The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
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“Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench
love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would
be utterly despised.”
SONG OF SOLOMON 8:6-7
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