Holiday Ayo - The Sundanese is an ethnic group which came originally (native) from Western Part of Java, and centralized on West Java, Banten, and Jakarta.

Majority of the Sundanese embrace Islam as their religion.

The Sundanese have their own tradition of beholding a wedding ceremony. Sundanese wedding tradition less complicated and pay more attention to the Islamic Syariah.

1). Pengajian
Pengajian is the time where the family, friends, and neighbors of the bride and groom gather to read the Quran /Yasin, pray for the sake of the bride and groom and shalawatan (praise the Prophet of Muhammad).
Pengajian hold by the groom and the bride separately, where the groom holds the pengajian for the male relatives and bride for the female relatives. Although in some cases the pengajian being held together. Pengajian doesn’t include as the syariah but still, it’s good for the future of groom and bride so God would bless them a happy marriage.

2). Siraman
Siraman means pouring the water. Hold separately, the groom and the bride are being ‘bathed’ by their parents and older relatives which had successfully managed their marriage life.
The meaning of siraman is so the groom and bride would remember how the used to be bathed by their parents.
The water for siraman mixed with seven different kinds of flowers (kembang tujuh rupa) :
- white and red roses petals,
- Michelia champaca (cempaka/champak),
- Magnolia × alba (cempaka putih/kantil/white champak),
- Cananga odorata (Kenanga/ylang-ylang),
- Jasmine,
- Polianthes tuberosa (sedap malam/tuberose),
- Jasminum officinale (melati gambir/Common Jasmine).

3). Sungkeman
After the akad nikah (marriage blessing by religious leader), both bride and groom would sungkem to their parents and if possible to grandparents, which means both bowed their body and head in front of the elderly and asked for forgiveness. Parents then granted their blessings to both.

4). Saweran
The bride and groom are being given some advice by the elderly on how to live a life as a couple together. Saweran then continues by ‘showering’ people or guests with coins, candies, and rice. Coins mean wealth, rice means prosperity, candy means the sweetness of life. Guests would then try to catch the coins and candies.

5). Nincak Endog
Means step on an egg. It symbolizes that the bride is still a maiden and the groom would be the one that ‘breaks her’ (deflower). The bride then washes her husband’s foot as the symbol of devotion.

6). Meuleum Haruput
Means burning the lidi (palm leaf rib). There are seven lidis and each are 20 cm long.
After burning it, both groom and bride would drown the lidis together in a jar filled with water and break the jar together. It symbolizes every problems should be taken care in cold head and together, the husband and wife would solve every problems.

7). Ngalepaskeun Japati
Means free the pigeons. The mothers of grooms and brides hand them pigeons and release them together, which symbolizes that their responsibility as mothers ended up here.

8). Huap Lingkung
First, the groom and the bride would be fed by parents, which symbolizes that this is the last time parents would take care of their children. Next, the groom and bride feed each other.

9). Pabetot Bakakak
The groom and bride would pull a grilled chicken. The one that got the biggest part must share it to his/her partner. Symbolize that each thing they earn should be shared.