Preparation before marriage: Before marriage, the woman's family will prepare some dowry, including gold and silver jewelry, furniture, household appliances and so on. As the property of the daughter's marriage.
Wedding: On the wedding day, the groom usually leads a group of relatives and friends to the woman's house for the wedding. Weddings are usually accompanied by festive sounds, such as gongs, drums and firecrackers.
Buy a door: before the bride gets started, the groom needs to take out a certain amount of red envelopes and buy the right to open the door from the doorman. Usually there will be some teasing and laughter in this ceremony.
Tea offering: After the bride gets started, she will also offer tea to her in-laws and parents-in-law at a tea offering ceremony to show her respect and gratitude to her elders.
Passing the door: The bride will go through a series of wedding ceremonies after getting started, and finally the groom will help her pass the door, symbolizing the threshold for the bride to enter the newly married life.
Wedding reception: On the wedding day, there will be some traditional programs and customs at the banquet, such as drinking a toast, making a toast, visiting the church and so on.
The above are just some rules and customs of marrying daughters in Hefei, because the specific customs may be different because of the different regional and family customs.