In our Miao Wedding ceremony, we must choose a wedding leader who leads eight young guys(or 12 men) to visit the bride‘s home and spend one night there, drinking and eating for a whole night, usually most guys are drunk at night. Only the leader who can talk a lot, others in the group cannot, must try to keep silent and just drink, and try to avoid making mistakes at her home. Next morning, they will lead the bride to her husband‘s home, and the wedding ceremony will start after they arrive. The leader often carries an umbrella, a proud rooster or a beautiful duck and a big bottle of rice wine when they are visiting the bride‘s family.
In the wedding, the bridegroom must only stay home, waiting for his bride‘s coming. He cannot go outside with the group.
However, different Miao groups have different wedding traditions in Guizhou, so are the Miao groups outside Guizhou.