The plates are placed on white sheets spread on the ground with the guests seated on the ground in groups of four to eight, each group sitting in a circle around a plate. Guests eat with one hand only, their right hand, scooping the rice and the meat directly with their hand and shaping the rice into a golf ball, but only from the section directly in front of them. Guests who are more fortunate to have more loot in the section directly in front of them, or have easier access to the lamb, usually cut and throw pieces of lamb in front of the other guests. This arrangement and ingredients of Palestinian mansaf are fairly typical in most Arab countries. Palestinian country weddings are normally segregated by sex.
Men usually gather in one group with the bridegroom, and women gather separately in another section.
Women sing their own songs in which they mainly praise the bride for wanting to take care of her bridegroom and her future family. They 'ululate', making a sharp loud but pleasant sound, then immediately utter the praise, and best wishes, for the bride and her family and the groom and his family. Most of the wedding ceremonies keep the bride away from the groom until she, toward the end of the ceremony, enters the ceremony on a horse, seated sideways and dressed in full traditional Palestinian clothes with the head dress, al-suffeh, lined with gold coins all around her head. The dabkeh is practiced in most Arab countries with some variations from country to the other. In addition, each region in Palestine has its own zaghroutah .