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Khosk
Kap
If you are not familiar with Armenian
traditions, Armenians usually do not
do a proposal/engagement the American
way.
In
Armenian traditions, usually, the family
of the guy will go the family of the
girl's house to request permission from
the girl's family for marriage and that's
how the initial proposal is done (called
Khosk Kap in Armenian). After this an
engagement date is set, where usually
a ceremony is held for all friends and
relatives to come and celebrate. Sometimes
this engagement is skipped and combined
with the wedding itself.
In
our case, I actually proposed
to Karina the American way first and
then my family and I went to Karina's
house for the Khosk Kap which was on
May 15, 2005. You can see some
pictures of our Khosk Kap here.
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Engagement
Our
engagement (or Neshan in Armenian) was
on October 2nd, 2005. The engagement
ceremony and reception was held at MGM
Hall in Glendale. We had about 260 guests.
Although this may seem like a lot of
people, it is a normal size engagement
for most Armenians.
Before
the ceremony we went to Brand Park in
Glendale and took some nice pictures,
which
you can see here. Karina wore this
Victorian style dress and she looked
amazingly beautiful. I could not take
my eyes off of her the whole day.
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In
Armenian traditions a priest comes to the
hall (or the couple and their families go
to the church) to make it all official. The
priest will pray and read verses from the
bible similar to a wedding ceremony. In our
case the priest came to the hall.
After
the ceremony everybody enjoyed dinner and
danced to music by a DJ that played Armenian,
Persian, Arabic, HipHop and Trance music all
night long.
During
one of the music breaks, I got up to the microphone
and gave a speech. Although, I had not prepared
a speech, I thanked all guests, my parents and
Karina's mom and family for bringing up such
a wonderful daughter.
The
centerpieces and flowers were provided by
Blossom
Florist (Ara and Adrineh) and we thank
them for such a beautiful job. We had colorful
Beta Fishes in the flower vases on all the
tables.
