So last night I decided to pull out this...
and get to work!
I also did a bit more research on the interwebs...
and according to Google, Sudanese brides...
- usually hibernate at home with their female relatives for a least a month leading up to the wedding. During that time they are scrubbed, massaged, "smoked", pampered and transformed for the big day.
- are decorated with henna and scented with perfumes and incense which the women may gather to make and apply at perfume and/or henna parties.
- wear red for good luck
- sometimes learn up to 100 dance steps or routines, which they then perform in front of a large group of women. This bridal dancing, or Sobheya , may involve as many as four costume changes.
- Dokhan (the getting smoked part) is a tradition where, every day for at least a month, the bride-to-be spends a bit of time wrapped in a tent-like robe while seated on a special chair over burning Taleh (fragrant ember-wood) in order to make her skin glow, among other things.
Hurray for the Super Bowl!
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Is lovely Areej going to get the time off for all of this preparation? Thank you so much for educating us!
Well, there's no way she's getting a month off from grad school. She's in bio-chemistry and you can't walk away from research projects for that long! I just pray nothing comes up to make her miss her own wedding! Meanwhile, I'm having a blast with my research. Next up -- the tea ladies of Khartoum!
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