🇸🇿 Wedding traditions of Eswatini
2 traditions from Eswatini, best known first, across 4 cities and towns.
A wedding in Eswatini, stage by stage
The customs written up so far, in the order a wedding unfolds.
| Finding a match | Umtsimba |
|---|---|
| Engagement and betrothal | Umtsimba |
| The weeks before | Umtsimba |
| The eve | Umhlanga, Umtsimba |
| Procession and arrival | Umtsimba |
| The ceremony | Umhlanga, Umtsimba |
| The wedding feast | Umtsimba |
Cities, towns and villages of Eswatini
🇸🇿 Ludzidzini Royal Village, Eswatini and 1 moreUmhlanga
The annual Swazi and Zulu gathering where young women cut reeds to preserve chastity and offer tribute labour.Rite · The eve
🇸🇿 EswatiniUmtsimbauntsimba
A multi-day Swazi wedding procession where the bride joins her husband's family through ritualised stages.Rite · Finding a match
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Umtsimba: Cat7624, CC0, source
- Umhlanga: Amada44, Public domain, source