 The ceremony resembles the reading of the Fatiha, but this when the legal documents are filled out and then filed.Two witnesses, usually the eldest men in each family, sign their names to the marriage contract, and the couple is now officially married.In the Levant, this event is usually held in the house of the either the bride or the groom's family, or sometimes in the wedding hall itself, in a mosque, or in court if the couple decide to do so.