In every country, a wedding takes a special place, has its own traditions and rituals. Marriage is not only a religious phenomenon, but also a social one. Parents of young people, relatives and close friends take part in it. In Kazakhstan, weddings are taken very seriously and are prepared for a long time so that everything goes in the best possible way.
Kazakhs take traditions very seriously. Despite this, the wedding ceremony has become more modern and Europeanized. The ancient traditions are preserved to a greater extent in the old villages.
Nowadays modern Kazakh brides and grooms do not wear saukele. Among the traditions, the dowry, kalym, removal of veil and covering the head with a headscarf have been preserved.
In the past, marriages where the husband is 25 years older than the wife and the wife is 8 years older than the husband were prohibited in Kazakhstan. Today there are no such restrictions. The only thing to be adhered to is that the age of the young should not be less than 18. About a hundred years ago Kazakhs married at the age of 15. Nowadays, fewer and fewer locals are in a hurry to marry early. They go to universities, run companies, get car licenses.
Having been to a Kazakh wedding at least once, it will remain in your memory for a lifetime. As a rule, such celebrations are accompanied by gifts, treats, dances and cheerful songs.
The groom is obliged to matchmake and ask permission to marry from the parents of the young one. The matchmaking and matchmaking ceremony takes place without ceremonialism and pomp. The eldest man in the family decides whether there should be a wedding. It used to last several days. Everything began with dressing and seeing off the bride, and ended with preparing a bed for the young. The last process was handled by the groom’s older sister, who must have children.
Weddings in Kazakhstan are always lavish and hearty. The tables are covered with a large number of traditional dishes, some of which have significance. For example, during matchmaking, the bride’s family prepares a ritual treat called «Kuiryk bauyr».
On the wedding table there is always a large number of meat dishes, sweets, flatbreads, pilaf. To make the newlyweds’ life happy and rich, they are sprinkled with candies and nuts. There is also a tradition in Kazakhstan — the first month after the wedding the young people eat a lot of honey to make their life as sweet.
To have the best wedding in this beautiful country, we advise you to use the services of a professional wedding agency. Among the locals, a wedding is considered cool if it has:
1. A cottage of luxury cars
Kazakhs choose expensive and luxurious cars of white and black colors for their wedding. The cortege crosses city avenues, and often streets are blocked because of it. Wedding guests like to look out of the windows and hatches of cars. They are even allowed to break the rules of the road!
2. Flash mob from friends
Friends of the young must perform a creative number, otherwise they cannot be called best friends. It does not matter whether they can sing, dance or be actors. The most important thing is to perform a fun number that will cheer up the guests and the young people.
3. A romantic love story
Kazakhs love to tell about the story of their acquaintance with their other half. The love story should include expensive watches of the young one, close-ups of the young one’s beautiful manicure, long gatherings, awkward touching of hands. It is equally important to demonstrate the attributes of expensive life.
4.Renting a luxury limousine
A Kazakh wedding will not be called cool if it does not have a limousine. As a rule, the car is white in color. The young people glow with happiness. On the limousine they drive around the city, look at the sights, and at the end come to the place of celebration
5. Guest star
It will be very cool if the young people invite a famous Kazakh artist or singer to the wedding. Guests will want to take a picture with him and post the photo on social networks.
6. A large number of cronies
The more bridesmaids there are at the wedding, the more the groom will have to pay for her ransom during the kidnapping. Cunning girls will do everything to get the biggest «kalym» for the bride.
7. Shooting like a movie
Rich Kazakhs order expensive equipment and specialists for the wedding, who think over the real scenario of filming the wedding. Sometimes even a crane and a drone are used.
Few people know, but this country has a very beautiful nature that strikes the imagination. Let’s take a look at a few places where you can make a great and original wedding photo shoot:
Want to be photographed against the backdrop of pink flamingos? Then go to the Kurgaldzhinsky reserve, where small natural lakes, channels and reed thickets have been preserved. Around the lakes are small shrubs, which are very abundant. There are approximately 60000 pink flamingos living in the reserve! This is a stunning sight that tourists from all over the world want to see.
A beautiful piece of Kazakh nature, where the rarest species of plants and animals are preserved. Among them: peonies, tulips, black stork, Altai sable, snow leopards and others. The background for wedding photos will be berry meadows, cedar taiga, colorful rocks, snow-covered mountains, mountain rivers and clear mountain lakes.
This is a famous national park where the young will hear the songs of the Singing Barkhan. Many years ago there was the bottom of the sea here, and today there are sands and canyons of the Aktau mountains. The young will be able to touch the willow tree, which is more than 700 years old! It is one of the oldest trees in the world.
An amazing place, which is located on the Mangistau peninsula. In the middle of the plain there are stone beads. No one knows how they appeared here. The balls have large and small sizes. Photos on their background turn out just gorgeous!
There are many other amazing and indescribable places in Kazakhstan, which will allow you to make an unforgettable and unique wedding!
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