Selection of partner for marriage

Partner selection for marriage is very crucial step because it’s not an easy task to do right? It usually involves the selection by couple themselves (as in case of love marriages) and or it can be arranged by the couple's parents (as famous in India) and or by a matchmaker. Arranged marriages are easier to make and involves some formal procedures by some family members and or by group politics. A responsible person (mediator) is asked to encourage the marriage by enhancing the degree of trust and removing doubts by finding answers to questions that came to mind of couples relatives or parents. Also a professional matchmaker can be asked to find a suitable spouse for an unmarried person or for divorced person too. In Indian villages, child marriage is also practiced which by law is completely illegal in India. Such marriages are fixed even sometimes even before the child is born. This practice is completely illegal under the Child Marriage Restraint Act but in India no one cares about the law and such cases can be seen now a day too. In some regions in India and abroad the custom of bride kidnapping still exists, in which a woman is captured by a man and his friends (recently a movie have been made on this issue in India). In previous times, raptio was a larger-scale version of this, In which a groups of women were captured by groups of men (this was also very common during war time in old historical time period); the most famous example is The Rape of the Sabine Women, which provided the first citizens of Rome with their wives.

Chinese marriage

Chinese marriages are very traditional and reflect the historical shadow. Mostly as being said by many, these Chinese marriages are based on Nuwa and Fu Xi . It is believed that Nuwa and Fu Xi firstly invented complete marriage procedures that one need to follow after becoming married. In ancient History of china, society people having the same surname allowed or considered to marry one another and if they do so, it’s considered as act of incest. But, interestingly doing marriage to maternal relatives was not considered as act of incest at that time. In such cases families sometimes intermarried from one generation to another too. As time passed Chinese people became more geographically mobile and trends in marriages gets changed too with this mobility Now Couples were married in an extra-clan marriage, which is also known as antithetic marriage (this is believed to occur in around 5000 BC.). When a married couple died the cremation of husband and the wife is done separately in the respective clans’ graveyard, it’s just similar to Hindu religion of India.

European marriages

A marriage is usually formalized in the presence of family members and relatives of bride and bridegroom at marriage ceremony by a religious official and or by a government official or can also be done by a state approved celebrant. In case of many European marriages and American countries marriages now also in India religious ceremony are held separately from the required civil ceremony whereas in countries for example Belgium, France, Romania and few other - It requires that a civil ceremony must take place before any religious one due to some jurisdiction and legal policies. Interestingly in countries like United States, Canada and United Kingdom, both ceremonies can be held either together or separately depends on the decisions of both families. The official present at the religious and or civil ceremony can also act as agent of the state to perform the civil ceremony too. In some other countries, for example like in India, Australia and in few other places marriages are allowed to be held in any private location and in other countries like England the civil ceremony is conducted in a place open to the public (just like in some open place or in hall where all people can come) the good thing is such marriages are approved by and are allowed by their country law. The place of marriage like I said could also be a hotel, historic building or other venue possessing license.