Wedding traditions of Ashgabat
A white marble capital whose weddings feature the heavy silver jewellery of the Turkmen bride.
The Turkmen bride wears a large amount of silver, including a high headdress, the takhya, and a long red dress. Turkmen wedding customs also include the bride payment, galyn.
A wedding here
The bride's family prepares a dowry of carpets and textiles, and the groom gives the gift of the gelin. Silver jewellery is a family asset.
Where weddings happen
Wedding palaces, cafes and houses. The government has regulated the number of guests and the price of celebrations.
The season and the calendar
Autumn and spring, and not in the heat of summer.
Wedding customs of Ashgabat
Also part of it, and being written: Turkmen carpet (The carpet as a part of dowry.), Turkmen jewelry (The jewellery.), Gelin (The bride.).
A wedding trail idea for Ashgabat
- Tolkuchka Bazaar A market of carpets.
- Wedding Palace A civil registry.
- Independence Monument A site for photographs.
Written by the EveryShaadi desk with AI assistance. Opening hours, venues and wedding-season dates change; check locally before travelling. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
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