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Nagari Singkarak Kubuang Tigo Baleh Minangkabau society has a unique tradition of customary wedding. As a part of the Minangkabau society, they conduct two models of the tradition of wedding, namely; alek ketek (small party) and alek gadang (big party). Alek ketek ceremony can be done in a simple way, but the alek gadang ceremony is full of complicated arrangements. People who conduct the tradition of alek gadang must do the custom rules correctly. This complicated model of customary wedding is only practiced by Nagari Singkarak Minangkabau?s society, and not by other people, although its neighborhood villages. Interestingly this wedding tradition implementation is still upheld by the local community. The wedding situation reflects the community capability level of Nagari Singkarak in determining alek. It creates the layers of the specified social level, upper and lower. Community groups who determine alek gadang, they choose social strata which will occupy a higher level than those who determine alek ketek ceremony.
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