Turkish-Cypriot Wedding - The whole island is invited to the wedding! | Getting Married (4/5)

3,000 people have been invited. This is how it should be in the villages where Emine (25) and Cemal (26) grew up. Everyone you know even remotely is invited. Therefore, the couple distributes flyers until one day before the wedding in their home villages and the surrounding area.

A highlight one day before the wedding is the Henna Night. The splendidly costumed groom picks up his bride with the horse from home and rides her across the village to the actual ceremony. There the bride's palms and fingers are dyed with henna. Since it is the last night before the wedding ceremony, it is supposed to be symbolically sad. Therefore, sad songs are sung for a while until the bride cries. The tears are hidden under a red veil. Red symbolizes fertility, great love, many children and prosperity.

The wedding itself takes place in the most magnificent location in the area. After the short and painless civil wedding, everything revolves around money: The 1500 wedding guests who accepted the invitation queue to congratulate the couple and give money. The couple recorded everything on video to see who had "helped" everything. The highlight towards the end of the wedding is the Krug dance. It decides on the fertility of the marriage.

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Chapters
▷ 0:00 - Intro
▷ 00:38 - Cyprus | Getting Married (4/5)
▷ 24:10 - Credits

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Five weddings. Five completely different ways to celebrate them in Europe. And a presenter interested in getting married. Authentic, warm and humorous, this documentary series accompanies people before and during the supposedly most important day of their lives.

Every year more than two million Europeans say yes to each other. No wedding in Europe is the same as any other. Lived and loved European diversity.
The Finns in the far north marry unlike Turkish Cypriots, unlike Italians with southern European influences, unlike gay couples in Catholic Ireland, unlike folkloristic Bulgarians in the poorest country of the EU. What are the differences between the ceremonies? What is the most important thing about a wedding across cultures and countries? How do the preparations work? How to find the perfect wedding dress? What role does religion play? What goes wrong? And how does it feel to say yes to one's life?

Presenter and producer Andreas Korn come amazingly close to the wedding couples. He laughs, suffers, cries and celebrates with them. One of his favorite rituals: "I really liked how in Finland the bride and her best friends sweated out their ex-lovers in the sauna. And when she ran around the hut and shouted the names out loud to be free for marriage, I had to laugh a lot. A super ritual!”

And despite all the differences between weddings, one thing is the same everywhere: love. No matter who marries whom where in Europe.

Original title - Getting Married! Episode 4: Cyprus
A film by Katrin Molnar, Michael Schmitt, Carmen Knothe & Andreas Korn

© 2019, Licensed by Autentic
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