The bride with her bridesmaids nieces and family around her, prepare her first white wedding dress, the train all but filling the room. Kaly and Alain's wedding, La Paillade and Figuerolles, Montpelier France. French Gitans, in the south of France, are full of spirit. They live and breathe to the rythmns of rhumba and flamenco music. Any chance to celebrate brings song and dance together with 'palmas' hand clapping. The wedding day is the most important of the brides life, where she moves from a girl to womanhood, where her honesty is tested by the elder women of her clan, with the mouchoir. She will typically have three wedding dresses, white for her religious faith, a special robe of honesty to match the mouchoir, and an over the top carnival outfit. The groom's outfits will match the brides. Thousands will attend a big wedding which can last until almost daybreak.
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