Wedding traditions of Navajo Nation
The Navajo wedding basket, with its path of colours, holds the sacred cornmeal of the marriage ceremony.
The Navajo, or Dine, wedding ceremony includes the sharing of cornmeal mush from a ceremonial basket. The basket has a design with an opening that represents a path.
A wedding here
In the ceremony the couple eats corn mush, in a pattern of washing and sharing, from the wedding basket. A medicine man guides the ceremony and counsels the couple.
A caution
The ceremony is a living religious rite. This guide describes it in general terms only, and recommends that visitors follow the lead of local families and respect their wish for privacy.
Wedding customs of Navajo Nation
Also part of it, and being written: Navajo people (The Dine.), Native American weddings (Varied customs.), Turquoise (Jewellery of the nation.).
A wedding trail idea for Navajo Nation
- Window Rock The capital of the nation.
- Navajo Nation Museum A museum in Window Rock.
- Monument Valley A landscape used 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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