Wedding Tradition

Now, I want to describe the other traditions of Batakness, that is the tradition of weddings. They have to finish some agendas before conducting the real weddings. First, Batakness called "marhatasinamot". Here, man's family have to give some money to woman's family as a symbol to ask the woman as a wife. It looks like " the man buys a woman ". Usually, a man gives money about 10 million until 20 million, but it's depends on each family, if they have enough money, they will give more. Actually, the money itself used for party necessary. The second is "Martumpol". Martumpol is engagement. After that, we called " tonggoraja ". It is a way for each family to divide some jobs in weddings later. For example, the woman from man's family have to prepare all the foods. And the last is weddings itself. Ratification of the wedding the bride and groom according to the procedures of the church (the blessing of the marriage by church officials). After the blessing of the wedding the bride and groom have done so legally as husband and wife according to the church.
That is a brief explanation about how the way for batakness to organize their weddings.