A traditional black South African wedding

Check the following interview with Dorah.

S: Sheila D: Dorah

S: Um, Dorah, you said your cousin was getting married yesterday...
D: Yeah.
S: ...in South Africa.
D: Yeah.
S: OK.  Is she getting married in a township or...?
D: No, it’s in a, in a village.
S: In a village.  OK.
D: Yeah, it’s in a village.
S: Right.  Is that near Johannesburg?
D: No, it’s about um, one and a half hours from Pretoria.
S: OK.  Right.
D: In a village.
S: And so she’s your cousin.  Is she your mother’s sister’s daughter, or...?
D: Yeah.  
S: Right.  OK.
D: It’s my mother’s sister’s daughter.
S: OK. Now, I think weddings in South Africa are very different to weddings over here.
D: Yeah.  Yeah, they are.
S: Yeah, so tell, tell me about this wedding.
D: OK.  Um... 
(clears throat)
Like er...  yesterday, which was the wedding day...
S: Mmm, hmm.
D: ...um, at the bride’s place.
S: Right.
D: So what happens is, prior to, to, to, to the wedding...
S: Mmm, hmm.
D: ...the wedding, the preparation...  some of the preparations um, it’s like people will be singing, practising their,
their...   There’ll be some dance...
S: Mmm, hmm.
D: ...that they have to practise and some songs to sing.
S: All, all for the special day.
D: Yes.
S: So they’ve been, they’ve been practising for quite a long time.
D: Yeah, yeah, for a long time.
S: OK.
D: The....   What do you call the...?
S: So you’ve got the bride and the groom.
D: And the other ones
–
 what do you call?
S: The bridesmaids.
D: The bridesmaids.  The, the bridemaids and the... the bridesmaids and the...
S: Groom and the...
D: Yeah, they will practise.  There will be some, some steps, some moves that they have to do.
S: Uh, huh.

D: So they will practise for maybe two or three months before.
S: Really?
D: And some songs.
S: Uh, huh.  Special songs for the day.
D: Yeah.  For the, for the... yeah.
S: OK.
D: And it’s, it’s quite serious.
S: Mmm.
D: You know, there, there will be days that they will prepare the goat, prepare... practice dance, singing, you
know, just to make the day...
S: ...really special.
D: Yeah.
S: And on the day of the, of the wedding on the bride’s side in the morning the, the family from the bride’s
groom...
S: Mmm, hmm.
D: ...have to come to the bride’s place early in the morning.
S: Well, when you say ‘early’, what, 10 o’clock or...?
D: No, around um, 5, 6.
S: 6?  In the morning.
D: In the morning, yeah.  And in the olden days they say it used to be around 4.  It’s our tradition in, in my...
people.
S: Uh, huh.
D: They would come in the morning and then there is um...    Um, I won’t say it’s, it’s a present, but, it’s um... 
It’s one of our traditions.  There will be...  an offering –
 if I may call it?
S: Mmm, mm.
D: ...they will give them
–
 a sheep or a goat.
S: Right.
D: It’s for them and then they have to slaughter it.
S: So they give them a live sheep?
D: Yeah, a live sheep or a live goat.
S: To the...  Who, who brings the sheep or the goat?  Is it the...
D: It’s there.  It’s, it’s there.  The, the, the, the girl’s family.
S: Yeah.
D: They’ve, they’ve got this to give to the bri...  husband’s
-to-be.
S: OK.

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4 Great Meanings of Wedding Diamond Ring

"A diamond is forever treasure," diamonds, as essential items of marriage, do you know the meaning of diamond in wedding ring? Wedding ring plays a role to connect the soul of couple in married life, you may wish to look good moral behind the ring when you are prepared to select it.

1, representing the unlimited right

People use ancient Greek etymology adamant to name it as diamond, meaning that hard material inviolable. Since the diamond is very hard, people take the diamond as extraordinary ability, it is very strong, not only indestructible, but also invincible. Thus, in Europe hundreds of years ago, only the king to wear diamonds in order to symbolize power, majesty and bravery, and even think that wearing a diamond can be invincible.

2, symbol of pure love

Diamond, pure transparent, enduring, like a lover's bright piercing eyes, affectionately watching you. It is a sign of pure love, expressing eternal pursuit of love and loyalty.

3, represents the prosperous and developed

Diamond represents prosperity, from the Star of South Africa. In 1869, the discovery of Star of South Africa which original weight is 83.50 kt that laid the foundation for the South of wealth. It also leads huge numbers of people to dig diamond in South Africa, and attracts people from all over the world came to South Africa to find wealth, it plays an important role in prosperity of South Africa.

4, mark of extraordinary ability

In geology, according to the relative hardness of the nature of the hardness of minerals into 10 hardness, as the standard stone 10, diamond is the hardest, but also the only crystals of 10 hardness. The hardness of diamond hardness is 150 times of sapphire(9) and 1,000 times of crystal hardness (7). Therefore, people take the diamond as a sign of extraordinary ability, it very strong, indestructible and invincible.