Based on a ceremony from the 1800s, the event is now held every two years (usually the final week of August) and recreates the most important moments of the weddings that were held long ago in the villages of the plateau.
The ceremony begins on a Wednesday at the Karst House (Kraška Hiša) and continues on the Thursday with a pre-nuptial party for the bride and groom. The bride is then brought on a cart and, for the last time, dances as an unmarried woman with the man who will soon be her husband.
On the Friday evening the young man serenades his beloved, singing typical Slovenian songs beneath her window, while the mother of the bride watches to make sure that the two do not meet.