Past and Modern Weddings in Jordan

A wedding is a marriage ceremony with its
accompanying festivities. In Jordan, the wedding in the past was completely different from now. In the past, brides wore seven dresses with different colours on their wedding days. The most common colours that brides wore were blue, pink, yellow, purple, red, Green and white. Now, most brides wear just one white dress because they feel more comfortable to wear one without changing. Another aspect, which shows great contrast in the two ceremonies, is the wedding party. In the past, the people did their weddings at home because the brides ‘parents loved to help the groom to save up his money for the future. Nevertheless, most people now make their weddings on hotels or restaurants because these festivities would be more extravagant there. The last different between the past and modern weddings is the dowry. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the dowry was like a prize. The groom could choose if he wanted to give the bride or not because not all people could spend the money on dowry. Nowadays, however, the dowry is the most important requirement to complete the marriage and is higher than before, for instance, the dowry in Jordan should be at least 3000 hundred dinars. Finally, both past and modern have negative and positive ways, and it different seen from person to other. Therefore, I suggest people to follow what the right way and make them happy.