What is the tradition in an Albanian wedding does the brides family or grooms family pay for the wedding?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The Groom's Family pays and organizes the whole wedding.

This is a simple basic way how it goes, in short terms:

Usally the Grooms family at the wedding day goes to the Brides home with a lot of men and cars, and take the bride into the best car that they have. All this after discusting with the brides family (taking permission and talking conditions). This is considered the "the marriage", and the Brides family follows their daughter to the grooms car.

Also, it is a rule that the first car of this caravan of Grooms family, must always have an Albanian flag. The one who keeps the flag in the car and outside the car it is called Bajraktari, and it is usally a young boy that must not speak with others during that time, and must stay and look serious. Also the last car is with the Groom and the Bride to be.

When they take the bride and go back to the grooms home the fiest starts. During the whole day will be fiest, where will be played traditional music, and dances. And at the night all the relatives of Grooms and Bride must meet at the Grooms home, or nowadays in a restourant where will be the final fiest of the wedding during the very first hours of the morning, drinking, dancing, and meeting up both families.

It worths to mention that the Brides family usally pays only for womens fiest before the wedding, called "Kanagjegj", where no mens are allowed and only womens of both families dance and sing traditional songs, and meet each other before the wedding.

Sometimes this fiest ends up with fights betwen the brides family and grooms family womens, because of the insulting lyrics of the traditionol songs that usally insult the bride, and highlight the beauty of the groom. Nowadays these songs are rarely played :)