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🇱🇧 Wedding traditions of Lebanon

7 traditions from Lebanon, best known first, across 1 city and town.

A wedding in Lebanon, stage by stage

The customs written up so far, in the order a wedding unfolds.

Wedding timeline of Lebanon by stage
Finding a match	Cousin marriage in the Middle East
Engagement and betrothal	Interfaith marriage, Cousin marriage in the Middle East
The weeks before	Zaffa, Elopement
Procession and arrival	Zaffa, Mizmar
The ceremony	Marriage in Cyprus, Elopement, Interfaith marriage
The wedding feast	Zaffa
Reception, dance and gifts	Dabke, Mizmar
After the wedding	Interfaith marriage

Cities, towns and villages of Lebanon

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

Mizmar: dalbera, CC BY 2.0, source

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