The Ceremony

The Navajo ceremony began with the bride and groom washing each other’s hands, then eating white and yellow corn meal (symbolizing male and female), which the medicine man combined in a bowl and blessed. “After the bride and groom eat the corn mush, the groom’s family, one by one, will eat some as well,” Kasey explains. “If there is any left, the bride’s family will follow until all the corn mush is gone.”