Marriage Ceremony Mainstream Assamese Family:
     
The process of Marriage ceremony in an average Assamese family starts with a proposal from either the side of the prospective bride or the groom. Then horoscopes of the boy and girls are compared. A new ring in put on the girl's finger as a mark sealing the proposal. The nuptials start two or three days, ahead. The first day is the Jorondiya, when a party of men and women from the bridegroom's side go to the bride's house and formality presents her with bridal dresses and ornaments. From this day till the wedding the bride and groom have to undergo ceremonial baths, every day, known Nowani. For this, water is specialty drawn(panitola)by the second day or the night before the wedding day is Adhivasa. Both the bride and the groom and also their mothers have to observe a fast on these days. A priest is engaged for the rites on this day and he performs the pujas, offering grams and pulses to Gods which are later distributed as prasad, after eating it only a vegetarian meal can be had at night. Women then carry on the ceremony of gathiyan khunda in which, inside an enclosure of cloth, they pound a kind of aromatic root to a pulp and apply it on the boy's or girl's head and add oil to the pulp. This is an act of purification. After, that night's meal, there will be no usual meal for them and their parents till the marriage is over. Early in the morning of the wedding day, the ceremony of driyan diya is observed. The bride of the groom is made to sit on the threshold of the bedroom, an elderly women relative sits in front, takes two betel leaves in her two hands, dips after a ceremonial bath, Sharddha of nine past generations called Na Puruxor Sarddha is performed. The groom has to take another ceremonial bath before he gets ready in the evening to start for the bride's house.