The modern ceremony of matchmaking has more nominal, than functional meaning. Nowadays parents of just-married can learn about their children's marriage after the ceremony. But let us be a bit more optimistic and analyze proper asking for marriage - how it should be and how it used to be many years ago.
The modern matchmaking begins with proposing to a lady. And if the answer is affirmative, according to good manners, a young man should lady's parents the permission to marry their daughter. It's most welcome for a lady to prepare her parents and to make the atmosphere nice and easy. The day for this event should be chosen beforehand.
So it'd be nice and almost necessary to buy some flowers for your bride and for her mother as well. To begin with a young man tells about his love and deep feelings towards the lady, about perspectives of their living together, about his great wish to make his future wife happy. And only after that he may pass over to the point - to asking a permission for marriage. Having given the permission, parents put their daughter's ahnd into the man's one - it's a tradition of matchmaking that has deep roots.
The next step is to visit groom's parents. In this situation a bride ought to think over making a good impression on her future husband's parents. It's really nice to buy a bunch of flowers for your future mother-in-law.
After that usually two families meet and discuss the details of the wedding and future life of young people.
But matchmaking is the first step of prewedding efforts, there is also an engagement......