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Texto reemplazado: «La Alimentación Doméstica en Vasconia» por «Alimentación Doméstica en Vasconia»
It is the symbolic ceremony when the parents of the suitor went to the home of the parents of the bride-to-be to pass on their son’s firm resolve to marry the young woman and ask her parents' permission to enter into that union.
In the past, both families usually would then discuss the economic aspects regarding the marriage settlement of the new spouses. The ceremony was held on a date in the run-up to the wedding and once both families had agreed the settlement, the banns began to be read in the parish church<ref>''La Alimentación Doméstica en Vasconia''. Ethnographic Atlas. Bilbao, 1990, p. 472.</ref>. In some places, the couple were then said to be engaged. It was also noted that the couple in several locations sealed the request for the woman’s hand in marriage by giving gifts to each other.
If the families did not have any property, the couple were married only "''con la alforja puesta al hombro", ''in other words, with nothing more that their physical strength and desire to work.
