Bride's tocher (dowry)

Bride's tocher (dowry):

The apparatuses and furniture which are taken by the bride to her husband's house is called "Tocher". This word is taken from Arabic word "jahaz" or "jahiziyeh". Both forms are derived from Arabic. It was a tradition that the amount of tocher that bride brings to grooms house, is a sign of bride and her family's prestige and honor. And the girl who didn’t have a tocher , was taken as an orphan. Nowadays, tocher still has so much to tell a bout the class distinction of the bride. Assess the amount of the "tocher": The amount of the tocher usually is announced by the bride father or directly is asked and pandered by groom's family. Amount of the dowry and how to hold the wedding ceremony is set by the groom. It's not common and rational for a girl with an average tocher expecting to have high amount of dowry. According to this, bride's family usually coordinates their expectations with groom's family regarding their financial abilities for preparing tocher and holding all the ceremonies before the wedding. Proper time for preparing the "tocher": From long time ago it was a tradition between Iranian families to start preparing things for their daughter's tochers when there are still children. this gradual way of preparing tocher is still common between families with incomes or even middle class families because the family may presume when the girl is a bout to marry they may not have the financial abilities to prepare the tocher .so they rather to do it gradually.

 

Modern Dowry: (Tocher)
 

As we mentioned before preparing bride's tocher is one of the most important things. Here under we are going to make a list of things that usually includes in the bride's tocher. 1) Bride and groom's bedroom furniture: It includes double bed, end tables, commode, dresser, bed sheets and pillow clothes. Some extra bedclothes, bed sheets and pillow covers for guest. Some bedclothes, bed sheets, and pillow covers for guest. 2) Proper curtains for each window for example: curtain for kitchen, bedrooms and living room. 3) Living room furniture, dinner table and chairs. 4) Carpet 5) Vacuum 6) Decorative things such as pictures, drawings and different statuettes. 7) Clock or horologe. 8) Library 9) Refrigerator (Refrigerator) 10) One set of chinaware and porelain dishes or plates 11) Washing machine 12) Gas burner (over) 13) One set of autoclave, stew pan and pan. 14) Crystal dishes for different purposes. Utensil and kitchenware. 15) Few sets of glasses 16) Tableware. 17) Samovar, and teapot. Plus a teaset 18) Set of spoon and fork 19) Sets of Fork and knife plus dessert plates. 20) Knife, colander and ladle 21) Water bottle, flask, cruse and glassware 22) Boxes of castor or condiment and spice boxes place for the tea, sugar, and sugar loaf 23) Kitchen apron and towels 24) Fridge Special utensils 25) Boskets and plastic dustbins in different sizes 26) Trencher and special boards for cutting meat and green vegetables 27) Electrical mill 28) Preparing boxes of legume, cereal, rice, spices, tea and sugar. 29) Rope for hanging cloths and clothespin. 30) Workbag, some colorful bobbins needle and scissors. 31) Separate towels for bride and groom 32) Necessary things for bath and washroom. 33) Few nightgowns and pajama plus various underwears for the bride 34) Towels 35) Iron and its cover 36) Crystal vases in different sizes.