Traditional Malay Weddings – Spying Custom (Adat Merisik)

Traditional Malay Weddings – ‘Spying Custom” – Asking ceremony (Adat Merisik) 

 

Traditional Malay wedding follows the Adat Merisik (“Spying custom” / Asking Ceremony) for arranging marriages.
 
For the ceremony, the man’s family will engage one or more representatives (wakil)
to visit the woman’s family. In the past, this is a “Spying” visit,
where the visitors would investigate the woman’s suitability for the
man’s future wife.
 
These days, it is a formality for the families to know one another, and to fix a day for the engagement.


 
 
 
 
 
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