meanings/symbols of ceremonies

hello everyone!!!

everyone of us has gone to a wedding, be it sikh, hindu, muslim...etc...and we all know what rituals take place and what each one contains but i relli dont know the meanings behind them...like for example...in a sikh wedding when the girl is leaving she throws rice..why?....when the couple enters their home for the first time the mother pours oil at the door...why?..anyone know the symbolic meaning or purpose of these ceremonies and more..plez add any u can think of and see if anyone knows why...😉

cheers, karen😛

these things are not religious rituals at all. None of these things are suppose to happen in Sikh weddings according to the scriptures but everyone does these customs as sort of cultural ritualsJ but even myself I don't know the true meaning behind them.😆

Originally posted by: JK_5

these things are not religious rituals at all. None of these things are suppose to happen in Sikh weddings according to the scriptures but everyone does these customs as sort of cultural ritualsJ but even myself I don't know the true meaning behind them.😆

ya i know that they arent religious but they are actually part of the punjabi culture..but why do we do them??😕

heyyy guys.....i did some research....the bride throws rice or grain to signify that she is paying off the debt of food to her parents home......so i guess thats why its done....

dude karen I dont know why they have these customs all i know is some of them are quite fun :) take for example jaago the most funest, beshtesht part of a punjabi wedding😃 anf ofcourse retreiving money from ur brother is also a fat chunk of the best deal ;)

@ nina: I thought the reason why they throw the rice is so that the girl's Maayka doesnt run short on food/prosperity even after she leaves her house coz a girl's bidaai is seen as the lakshmi leaving her parents house :(

ooo....well that sounds rite too....im not sure...i just kinda googled it....i had asked someone but they hadnt really been sure themselves

well one custom in punjabi weddings that I know is that when the groom sits on the horse the sisters feed his horse and pamper him, they also braid the threads tied around the horse they pamper the horse becuase they want the horse to take their brother safely to get his bride and bring their bhabhi back I remember doing all this one all ym cousins weddings at one I was about 5 and didn't know how to braid so my mom did it 😃

also my mom said that the rice throwing is a hindu rituals and punjabi's have picked it up because I grew up in a pind and no one ever throws rice 😕

oh also the oil thing my mom said it doesn't hold a significant meaning it's just a shagun, since the bride is entering her sasural for the first time they welcome her with shagun

I the oil spilling thing is not just for weddings whenever I visit my family in India they always spill oil and then allow us to enter the house and they do that once we leave too, it's really sad when we have to leave India makes my heartache thinking of my "Biji" spilling oil while crying and bidding us bye bye from her house