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Weddings ceremonies have undeniably important impact in human life. These ceremonies in which people marrying open a new page in their life while parents get various responsibilities, matter a lot in terms of the history of human being and cultural issues. During these ceremonies, people share their happiness and serve as a model for next generations by providing permanence of generations and cultures with their recently set up families. On the other hand, most of the wedding traditions surviving for centuries until these times are not applied recently because of social, cultural and economic reasons and are almost about to be forgotten. In accordance with this concern, regional research related to marriage ceremonies of Aksu, Shamakhi, Ismayilli cities of Azerbaijan which is one of the most remarkable countries of Turkish world, has been started by our side as the part of the project mentioned in notes part. Azerbaijani wedding ceremonies usually start with “qiz beyenme” and “qiz gorme” in which a boy and his family see and like a girl and ends with the ceremony called “qonaq cagirdi” in which recently married couple are hosted by relatives. Detailed compilation about wedding ceremonies in the certain cities of Azerbaijan mentioned before has been conducted in the study. Editing process has been conducted accompanied with the information about traditions of marriage gained from primary source that is people living there, in Aksu, Shamakhi and Ismayilli located in “Shirvan” region of Azerbaijan. On the other hand, further information regarding with wedding traditions has been also gained by detail through direct involvement in such ceremonies taken place in those cities. Beside this primary source of information gained from people living in those areas, printed folklore studies about Azerbaijani weddings conducted in last years within Azerbaijan and various written, scientific source, different literary works regarding the topic have also been benefited.

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