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 the two and three times as was tradition, managed to convince the family of the girl, leaving each time gifts and offerings to the family. In the third visit the parents of Small dove arranged the wedding, the men of the books and the black and red ink were consulted and set the date of the marriage.

That morning all the bride and groom relatives met for breakfast at the groom's House. Subsequently and in procession all went to the temple to ask the "omnipresent ", for the couple venture. At the end of the ceremony, the couple and their relatives went to Small dove parents’ house. The procession was opened by musicians with their whistles, flutes, snails and drums, which made a musical and harmonious notification of the newlyweds’ passage through the streets of town. In the bride House the family and friends had installed in the patio of the house, a spacious canopy, with petates for all guests. The only room in the house was perfectly clean and stuccoed. An altar was installed with the family gods; the house was adorned with aromatic flowers. In the middle of the room was a petate, with side two vases and two censers that burned fragrant copal.

Then the bride and groom kneeled down in the petate, the godparents of the newlyweds tied the groom mantle with the bride huipil and joined them with a string of beautiful flowers. The relatives were formed in pairs at the entrance of the room and were moving in pairs; they stopped in front before the newlyweds and put their right hand on Dawn deer and the left in Small Dove, improvised beautiful and wise advice for their future life. Each said what they felt and recommending what seemed best. The room was then saturated with incense, love and wisdom.

At the end of the ceremony they turned to “gift dancing”, which had previously been exhibited in large petates. The bride relative’s gifts had white flower tied and those from the groom had a small arrow. The newlyweds started dancing first, then the groom godparents, with a metate the bride godparents and with a