Uzbek traditions

Eid al-Adha (Ramazon hayit) and Eid al-Fitr (Kurban Hayit)
As in all countries where live muslims, Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Fitr are widely celebrated in Uzbekistan too. People have been celebrating these holidays for many centuries but they were prohibited during the soviet times. But after the independence government declared them as a naitonal holiday. Men go to mosques early morning to pray holiday prayers and then visit relatives. Women set up a holiday table. Elders give candies and sweets to children.
Uzbek national wedding
The major holiday in life of any person is wedding. Traditionally neighbors, colleagues, relatives from near and far cities and settlements, friends and acquaintances from mahalla (local quarter) are invited for the ceremony, so in the end it comes as several hundreds of people. In this connection for last decades in the cities they have built capacious wedding restaurants which are called toyhona (“toy” is a holiday, “hona” is a room).
Modern Uzbek weddings take place mainly according to ancient traditions and ceremonies: since early morning in the house of the groom national tools - karnay and surnay sound, mother sees off the son, calling to him three times and at last treating with a sweet (to make family life sweet), and he gives her a handkerchief with money; further the groom with friends goes to the house of the bride accompanied by musicians, friends by all means should dance on road, and time to time someone from them jumps up and tries to bring down a wedding cap from the groom’head (even if he doesn’t wear it).