Question: What are two important customs in a Tongan wedding? Answer:

Question: What are two important customs in a Tongan wedding? Question

January 1, 2006-January 1, 2006
Location: Hawaiian & Pacific Collection

Gift giving of fine mats and tapa made by women and the preparation of food by men for the feast table.
Kava ceremony. The wedding day is the only time that a woman is honored at a kava ritual where she is allowed to sit in the place of honor.

Found in Joan Clarke's Family traditions in Hawai'i: birthday, marriage, funeral and cultural customs in Hawai'i Honolulu: Namkoong Publishing. 1994. DU624.5 .C53 1994

Wedding Traditions in Hawaii and the Pacific