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Posted By asiagender.net on April 2, 2010

Family in Central Asia starts with match making arrangements. A person who knows well both bride's and groom's family takes responsibility of arranging their marriage. Sometimes up to 3 or 4 people participate in this very important task. Most of the time it is an elder woman who has the wisdom gained from prior experiences of arranging marriages, less commonly it is done by the parents of two young people.

Person who arranges the marriage chooses the bride or groom from two very respectable and educated families. It is a very difficult process, description of the bride to be or groom to be must be accurate, well presented and trustworthy.

In many Central Asian counties those who arrange the marriage visit homes of future bride on behalf of groom and his family and propose marriage. Future of young family depends on groom's character, his parent's and relative's life experiences and the marriage arranger herself. By taking the responsibility of match making person has to know everything about bride's and groom's families and as well as bride and groom themselves otherwise it is considered a big sin to arrange an unhappy marriage for both families. Those people must understand that well being and future of the young family is in their hands.

People of Central Asia have a saying, "those who have a bride, have the caprices", marriage arrangers visit bride's homes several times before getting an agreement for the proposed marriage. Then marriage arrangers return to groom's home, they are greeted with a question, "wolf or fox?" If they brought the good news the answer is "wolf", and if the bride has not agreed to the marriage the answer is "fox".

Match makers visit the desired bride's home several times in order to obtain her agreement to the marriage. When the bride gives her positive answer to the marriage, the match maker "breaks the bread" to announce the engagement.

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