I'm doing a research project and I hardly use the internet so I have difficulty paraphrasing stuff that I find. If you can, please paraphrase the following 3 paragraphs for me. thanks. Rokna or Thaka: Acceptance of the alliance Roka is the first and smallest of the ceremonies, the parents of the bride and the groom solemnize that the son and daughter respectively have been booked for each other. This is a virtual engagement. Sagai: Engagement The actual engagement takes place a few days before the actual wedding. Rings are exchanged between the bride and the groom, in the presence of a religious head, close friends and relatives. The day of the wedding is normally be fixed after the 'sagai'. Chunni Chadana: Dressing up and blessing the bride One day before the wedding the female members of the groom's household go to the bride's home with the 'suhag ki pitari' (a decorated basket containing gifts from the groom's mother for the bride). These gifts usually consists of 'mehendi' (henna), clothes, jewelery, fruits, dry fruits, dried coconut, dried dates, bangles, 'sindoor' (vermilion powder) and a red 'dupatta' or veil. During this ceremony the ladies sing wedding songs to the beat of a 'dholak' or small drum and vail the bride with the traditional red 'dupatta'.
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The following are three preliminary ceremonies to a traditional Punjabi Sanathan Dharam wedding: Rokna or Thaka: The betrothal. A contract between families of the bride and groom, booking their prospective marriage. Sagai: Engagement. The contract between the couple with the exchanging of rings a few days before the wedding in the presence of a religious head and close friends and relatives. The day of the wedding is then fixed. Chunni Chadana: Veiling the bride. The day before the wedding female members of the groom's family arrive with a basket of gifts from the groom's mother for the bride, including a red veil called a dupatta with which the bride is veiled as the ladies sing wedding songs to the beat of a small drum, blessing and welcoming the bride. Henna, called mehendi is also included in the gifts and her hands and feet will be painted with intricate designs (these will often contain the names of the bride and groom, the marriage will not be consummated until he finds where they're hidden, she will do no work until the dye fades), there will also be vermillion powder ( called Sindoor, it will first be applied to the forehead of the bride by her husband in the wedding ceremony, she will apply this mark the rest of her life), jewels, bangles, clothes, and fruits and nuts. The basket is called "suhag ki pitari".
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