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The official start of the wedding ceremony is in the afternoon of the day preceding the vows; at this time the bride and groom are forbidden to see or communicate in any way with each other until the main wedding ritual, and they need to take a purificatory bath (''gælarīṇa''). The bride and groom are painted during the evening, and then they have to sleep in specially-made beds called ''mailañšeyai'' (plur. tantum), which according to tradition have to be uncomfortable. On the following morning, the bride's ritual braid is made. Typically, body paintings and the vestition processes are to be done by same-gendered people in or close to the family, with the only possible exceptions being the bride or groom's ''kaleyah'' and, if they do not have siblings of the same gender, the bride's eldest brother or the groom's eldest sister, as long as they are majors.

The crowning ritual is called ''šukilanah'' (lit. "declaration") and takes place at the beginning of the evening. Introduced by an Inquisitor celebrating the wedding, the bride and groom have to recite six vows<ref>The number and content of vows may vary regionally.</ref> in the form of question–answer. At the moment of the last vow, the bride and groom need to be facing in the direction either of the Blossoming Temple of Līlasuṃghāṇa or of Lake Vādhaṃšvāti.

After the wedding, it is customary for the newly-weds to visit those relatives that could not attend the ceremony, typically spending ten days travelling across the country to visit them, one per day, though the frequency varies depending on local customs. Traditionally, the couple used to go to live at the wife's house, if she was the youngest daughter of her family. Today, with housing being assigned by the state, it is no longer the case, though it is not uncommon that the wife's parents are counted as part of the household when determining the size of an apartment to be assigned to a married couple.

==Housing==