Formal sending bride to bed ceremony (พิธีส่งตัวเจ้าสาว)
This ceremony start with bed arrangement by senior couple or we call พิธีปูที่นอน
The sending bride to bed ceremony usually do at night, or after the evening party finish. The groom’s and bride’s parents will invite an honor/senior couple to arrange bed. The selected senior couple need to be a good idol in the long married life from marriage till getting old, wealthy, have good child and all alive. Currently bedding arrangement by a senior couple is just nominal, because it is prepared before the wedding already. On the bed is arranged pillows, blankets, bed spread nets held. When it’s time of ceremony, the groom down on on bed at the right hand, and the women at left side. This is the sleep tip.
The auspicious things use in this ceremonies are varied. There are such as stones for crushed herbs,
green gourd, white male cat that is powdered all white and perfume. There are
also including nuts, sesame seeds, golden rice quantity a handful each then
wrapped in fabrics. The senior couple
who arrange the bed, will put these things on the bed and bless, and lie down
formally on the bed a while, then rise up.
The auspicious things have the meaning that cool and heavy like gourd,
stay home like the stone, and watch over the house like the old male cat.
A cat is regarded as a tame animal like people who have been trained. Cat is considered the sacred animal. The very old male cat often lay on wood house and hardly wander around outside. Sometimes, bringing petal of rose, amaranth and lotus flowers and sprinkle on the bed.
A cat is regarded as a tame animal like people who have been trained. Cat is considered the sacred animal. The very old male cat often lay on wood house and hardly wander around outside. Sometimes, bringing petal of rose, amaranth and lotus flowers and sprinkle on the bed.
Submission bride to the bed ceremony (พิธีส่งตัวเจ้าสาว)
When the senior couples rise up from the bed, they will act as if just woke up. The senior woman would say about her auspicious dream and the senior man would say something about consolation and the prediction to rise in the future
Then parents of the bride and groom send the marry couple to the bed room, and the bride’s parent say that young bride did not know as much about the households. If there is any deficiency, the groom admonishes and counsel kindly her like a sister, do not have nagging. And help to protect, care and etc., do not neglect her. Then the groom accept and promise to perform very well
Then the parents of both parties trained the marry couple to know the duties of husband and wife as well, which must continue to rely on each other. Then the couple lay sleeping on the bed. The husband sleep on the right, and the bride sleep on the left. Sometimes before lay on the bed the bride will bow her husband for good luck, because husband is considered to take care and protect her.
The reason of the husband lay at the right bed, because it is near the door. If a dangerous event, the husband will be able to protect wife because men are considered stronger than women.