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Children’s “Wedding”

A favourite children’s game is to hold a “wedding”. Often their mother’s help them to organise this and supply the “wedding feast” between them - orange squash, biscuits etc.

Children will have observed wedding “procedure” several times so they copy with the different stages of a wedding especially with the “bride” wearing a “wedding veil”. The rest of the “wedding guests” and “attendants” dress in their best clothes.

“Wedding guests” congregate playing the various stages of a wedding. They are dressed in their smart clothes.

Mothers offer support and advice for the  authenticity of  the stages of the game.

The “bride” and her attendants posing for the “official photographs”. N.B. the “wedding veil”

This popular children’s playacting serves to reinforce the various traditions and culture. The children will have observed the various roles and behaviour on many occasions at the local weddings in their kgotlas.