Families often enjoy having single people to join their festivities because they know that everyone's behaviour improves as a result.

Visitors are warmly welcomed and encouraged to join the festivities and games.

Only a few hundred were expected, but in the end thousands joined the festivities.

Their annual tradition of joining the festivities in outrageous costumes has become part of local legend.

Our talk switches to family, religious festivities.

In addition to the competition fireworks, almost everyday different types of fireworks (including day-time tower fireworks) are burned as part of the religious festivities.

At the age of 13 he began to sing at religious festivities, or fiesta de santo.

Religious festivities and royal weddings were celebrated by fights in the local plaza, where noblemen would ride competing for royal favor, and the populace enjoyed the excitement.

The traditional wedding festivities are paid much attention to, sometimes even catching the attention of entire villages.

The wedding festivities were lavish and ostentatious.

For example, family members and friends sing these songs during wedding festivities, by doing so help protect the traditional rituals associated with each step of the marriage.