Got Marriage??
In honor of all the recent postings about marriage, I thought I would share an interesting opportunity with all of you unmarried people out there looking for a mate. Do you ever feel like in our modern, fast-paced, customer-driven world we make finding a mate too complicated? Well, here is a possible solution for you:
Today was the start of the week-long Imilchil Marriage Festival in Morocco. Every year the Berber tribes from this area in the High Atlas come together in the town of Imilchil at the end of the Harvest. One focus of this gathering is matchmaking between young men and women. From what I can tell it pretty much goes like this:
1) You show up in Imilchil.
2) If you want to get married you wear certain clothes that imply that you plan to get married that week.
3) The guys and girls walk around, pick people they might be interested in and then go for a walk which lasts about 15 minutes. During this time the two speak to see if they are a good match. As for physical attraction, well, most of the time all the guys have to go on for looks is the girls eyes which are the only thing not covered.
4) If you decide after these 15 minutes that you are a match then you hold hands, implying a match and the girl says the magic phrase 'You have captured my liver' which implies consent to the marriage.
5) Engagement happens on the spot, with a handy table set up in the center of the town to legally record the marriage.
Here are some PICTURES of the kind of hotties available for marriage.
You can read about the history of the festival HERE, or read a STORY from someone who attended.
It seems so simple, huh? Makes you wonder about all those years you spent dating, buying valentine?s day gifts, writing love letters :)
Today was the start of the week-long Imilchil Marriage Festival in Morocco. Every year the Berber tribes from this area in the High Atlas come together in the town of Imilchil at the end of the Harvest. One focus of this gathering is matchmaking between young men and women. From what I can tell it pretty much goes like this:
1) You show up in Imilchil.
2) If you want to get married you wear certain clothes that imply that you plan to get married that week.
3) The guys and girls walk around, pick people they might be interested in and then go for a walk which lasts about 15 minutes. During this time the two speak to see if they are a good match. As for physical attraction, well, most of the time all the guys have to go on for looks is the girls eyes which are the only thing not covered.
4) If you decide after these 15 minutes that you are a match then you hold hands, implying a match and the girl says the magic phrase 'You have captured my liver' which implies consent to the marriage.
5) Engagement happens on the spot, with a handy table set up in the center of the town to legally record the marriage.
Here are some PICTURES of the kind of hotties available for marriage.
You can read about the history of the festival HERE, or read a STORY from someone who attended.
It seems so simple, huh? Makes you wonder about all those years you spent dating, buying valentine?s day gifts, writing love letters :)
posted by suzanne at 9:10 AM
11 Comments:
ahh susanne, now i understand the recent visit you had to Morocco! ;)
10:59 AM
sounds like speed dating... only not.
1:54 PM
Interested way of speeding up a complicated process. Suzanne, are you planning to get someone in this way?
2:04 PM
We should call it a ?Marriage market? with people traded as an ordinary market with a price.
Anyway, they?ve been following their traditions for centuries now. If they found it inefficient they would have changed.
3:18 PM
it's still too complicated. This is easier.
http://www.interbrides.com/?s=google&k=first+campaign
3:27 PM
Great site Dody..but where are the guys? You don't here about Russian mail-order grooms very often do you?
7:10 PM
I think there were one; it went bankrupt after 2 months.
8:10 PM
I like the moroccon way better, there you can actually experience what's in the package: the smell, the voice, the mind...
With the russian brides you only see the wrapping.
but it has a rather noticable "show interest" feature under the >contact ladies menue...reminds me of insight somehow. :)
But for AIESEC "matching" there are/were the conferences which is again more like the morrocan berber way.
so I guess that's the better way. or were we just to stupid not to try out insight for other kinds of matchmaking?! ;)
10:09 PM
Isn't marriage a punishment for shoplifting in some countries?
6:28 AM
There's a better quote :)
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
-john stuart mill
2:18 PM
This reminds me of the good ol'days in Austin where marriage was a topic of discussion, only for citinzenship purposes: green cards would be swapped for EU citizenship and viceversa...
Talk about a Global Strategies!! AIESECers from all over the world in one city, making arrangements when reaching the dreaded 40th birthday unmarried.
2:55 PM
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