Navajo Wedding at Wedding

Navajo Wedding. The traditional navajo wedding ceremony consisted of feeding all of the friends and the visitors who came to see the young people get married. The bride enters carrying the basket with the corn mush.

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“you have lit the fire for life”. Divorces were seldom and to many unheard of. They enter the hogan clockwise.

Traditional Navajo Wedding Ceremony » Paul Rich Studio

By going through with the ritual you are now bonded forever. No longer strictly lose fitting and one of four colors, navajo wedding dresses have branched out to include oranges and reds as well. As elements of the navajo culture have become more mainstream, wedding dresses have also changed. The bride enters carrying the basket with the corn mush.