Bale boroon and Engagement
Traditional wedding and its customs in Iran
Common traditions
Common traditions :
-It these series, it has been tried to refer to most common wedding traditions in all big urban societies.
-This source based on the highest populations of the most biggest. Cities which makes this book more useful in a broader sense. So by this procedure we couldn't go through & manifest all the graceful different ancient Iranian ' s cultures and it's tiny lateral cultures which has been affected it in some ways.
-Although the roles of these tiny cultures by making changes and evolutions on these customs are quite obvious. In fact there is close connections between them by haring effective interactions. Without any doubts this series will help educated People from different notions to indagate about these matters. In order to narrate valuable and special customs and cultures of each part of this enriched wonderful region
-In this series we were just objective narrators and spectators of common wedding customs in big cities.
-And it's necessary to emphasis on this matter that explaining these customs does not mean our confirmation or denial, even the necessity of existence of each stages of them.
-There is no doubt that our sage folk hasn't forgotten the plain weddings of our adolescents which were so common first years after the Iran's revolution.
-Receiving yes to proposal request and taking the bride. "Bale-boran": (receiving yes to the wedding proposal) (yes is equal to "yes, I do") ,"Bale- boran" is " Bale- boroon" in vulgar terms and usually pronounced as bale boron. According to Dehkhoda's Dictionary it's a compound word which is consist of the word "Bale"(yes) that is said by the bride during espousal in presence of the groom's attorney and "Boran"(taking) or "Bordan" which is referred to a ceremony that bride and groom's families and close relatives talk a bout espousal's conditions and amount of bride and groom's rights. And then this explanation was given : contract and agreement between bride and groom's families about espousal and wedding conditions plus dowry.