- An after party experience of wedding where couples are required to perform the day after the wedding. A personal experience I had in my older brother’s wedding. With the presence of elders who’ll cast the ritual chants, dallut was performed by the couple (my brother and sister in law) together with the two pairs of their bridesmaid and groomsmen, which one of them was me. The ladies will be lined together facing the guys which was also lined up together. As the elders cue, they will start to perform the simple footsteps while holding each other’s hand without letting it go at once. One of the elders will try to startle the couple and members –as a sign of temptations, problems or challenges to be faced by the couple in their marriage life – which makes their grip strong and firm. After which the couple will try then perform the bahay-bahayan to portray the duties of the couple as husband and wife.
It is a beautiful musical hum dance advice usually performed by a yogad elderly couple with the bride and groom and four others. It is a final a gesture of goodwill and concern for the harmony and wellbeing of the new couple in their life apart from their families. Reason why yogads continue to do this practices.