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Old
Time Wedding - Moriah
Village.
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A grand
style traditional
"Ole Time"
Tobago Wedding.
• This
Ole Time Wedding follows
the Courtship Codes and
features the wedding
along with the after
ceremony festivities .
Strongly reflected are
the European influences
on the culture of Tobago.
• Dashing
gentlemen are dressed in
black and white formal
three-piece suits
including top hats, bow
ties, white gloves and
carrying huge umbrellas
to shade their female
partners.
• The
women, not to be out
done, are gaily adorned
with 18th and
19th century
bustle dresses, platform
shoes, wide-brimmed hats
decorated with flowers
and fascinators with
white gloves.
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• Heavily
jeweled guests line up alongside
their partners ready to
"walk de wedding."
• After
the village church's ceremony,
the wedding procession winds its
way along the streets, dancing
the "brush back" to the
sweet sounds of the tambrin and
fiddle.
• The
procession stops along the way to
enjoy offerings of cake and wine
before moving on to the reception
venue.
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Food,
speeches, cultural entertainment
and dancing continue throughout
the afternoon until the bride
finally throws here bouquet to
some lucky guest, then departs
for her well earned honeymoon..
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