Christian wedding rituals typically take place in a church before friends and family. There are various pre-wedding, wedding, and post-wedding rituals and traditions. These include bridal showers, bachelor parties, unveiling of the bride, exchanging rings, reciting vows, the reception with the first dance and toasts to the couple, and bouquet throwing where the woman who catches it is said to be next to marry. Different Christian denominations may have diverse wedding practices and beliefs regarding marriage.

1. Discourse Analysis
Christian Wedding

2. Christian Wedding
Wedding rituals are conducted in church, in
prescience of friends and family members.
Different sects of Christianity hold different
opinions regarding marriage and have diverse
ways of conducting it

3. Rituals
sub-categories
Pre Wedding
• Bridal shower
• Bachelor's party
Wedding
• Unveiling
• Ring exchange
• The Vows taken
Post Wedding
• The reception

4. Bridal shower
• It is a time when all the females
gather at the bride's place and
rejoice by singing and dancing.
• They shower gifts on the bride
and she offers them a pink cake
with a hidden thimble. Whoever
gets the piece with the thimble,
is supposed to get married next.

5. Bachelor's party
• Groom along with his male
friends Party in order of the
last night as a bachelor.
• This is considered a wild party
bash,
• Raising a toast is a must here.

6. The Unveiling• The husband and wife are not to
see each other before meeting at
the altar because it is thought to
be bad luck; reason being that
many marriages where man and
wife see one another before
meeting at the Altar
• The groom is to be first to see
woman’s entire face at the time of
the ceremony

7. Vow taken
• “I, (name), take you,
(name), to be my
husband. I promise
to be true to you in
good times and in bad,
in sickness and in health. I will love you and
honor you all the days of my life.”

8. The Reception• The Bride and the Groom share
a dance as the first dance.
“I introduce Mr.___ and Mrs. ____”
• Toasts are made by all immediate
family members as they wish the
couple a blessed life ahead.

9. Bouquet ThrowingBefore the Woman/Wife leaves with
her husband she throws a bouquet of
flowers with girls gathered behind her
• It is said that the woman who
catches the bouquet is destined
to be married next.
• The reason behind this is that
the people start looking for a
spouse for that young lady