BRIDE

KIDNAPPING

NURUL ZAHIDAH BINTI HASSAN

(PTM 130723907)
ZAHIDAH HUSNA BINTI
ZULKIFLI
(PTM 130723486)

INTRODUCTION
A practice in which a man abducts
the woman he wishes to marry
Bride kidnapping has been practiced
throughout history around the world
and continues to occur until now

PRACTIS
ED BY:

Kyrgyzst
an

Roma/Roma
ni

KRYGYZSTAN.

KYRGYZSTA
N
BRIDE
KIDNAPPI
NG

Ala
Kachuu
(to take
and run
away)

HOW????
The man (groom) abduct a woman (the
bride)

Take the bride to the grooms house

The bride is kept in a room until the

grooms family manage to persuade her
to marry the groom

If the bride refuses, her family and the

grooms family will pressurize her until she
accept the marriage

Once she agrees, she will put on a white

wedding scarf/jooluk as a sign of acceptance

If the bride reject the marriage, it is

considered unacceptable for her and she will
be perceived as rejecting Kyrgyz cultural
identity

WHY IT HAPPENS???
Part of their culture in order to show
masculinity
Connected with difficulty in paying
the required dowry

ROMANI

CURRENT ROMANIAN WEDDING

TRADITION
BRIDENAPPING
(Mock
Kidnapping)

BRIDE
KIDNAPPIN
G
Bride is
snatched under
the nose of
groom and guest
in the wedding
party.

BRIDENAPPING

There Goes The Bride.

Couple got legally
married at city hall
in the morning, got
to church in the
evening, then goes
to the wedding
party.
Kidnapper negotiate

for ransom from the

godfather (Before
midnight) or the groom
(After midnight).
Presents brides shoe
as proof.

Bride is snatched
during the
wedding party by
the kidnapper.
Usually after
midnight.

Bride is held
hostage at Club,
bowling center or
most frequentlyBucharests Arc of
Triumph.

The godfather or
the groom give
the ransoms to
the kidnappers

The bride is
returned to the
groom. The shoe
is returned to
the bride.

Why?
1) Part of their culture.
2) To show women as important possessions for men and their family.
3) To test the grooms love for the bride.
4) Usually are arranged beforehand to avoid awkwardness of being
kidnap twice or more.
5) As story to retell their future descendants.
Bucharests Arc of Triumph?

)A top football player rented Bucharest's Arch of Triumph and

proposed there to his girlfriend.
)No kidnapping was involved but the scene stuck in the popular
imagination as a symbol of marriage and soon the monument
became a sort of midnight mecca for bride-napping.

WHY WE CHOOSE THIS

CULTURE?

CONCLUSI
ON